Are you feeling the love of all this diversity yet? So much stronger now that the rape gangs are on their way here! Yea! It is well worth the billions they have looted legally and illegally is it not?
Posted on 05/04/2026 10:17:07 PM PDT by Cronos
A recent NPR report on New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's public Ramadan events exemplifies a broader media pattern: portraying Islam as a neutral, purely spiritual faith while obscuring its civilizational and political dimensions. The story portrays public prayers and communal iftar meals as harmless cultural inclusion, portraying them as efforts to "normalize Muslim life" in the city.
The Political and Military Significance of Ramadan In NPR's coverage, Ramadan appears merely as a tradition of communal meals and a marker of diversity. Large iftar events organized alongside the government, including one held in a prison complex, are described as gestures of solidarity and belonging.
However, in Islamic sources, Ramadan is not merely a period of fasting. It commemorates the revelation of the Quran—the foundational text not only of Islamic worship but also of Islamic law, governance, and military doctrine. Historically, Islam's greatest military victories occurred during Ramadan, a fact recognized within Islamic tradition itself. As one of our analytical articles notes, Ramadan is indeed a month of jihad, associated with battles such as Badr, the conquest of Mecca, and subsequent imperial expansion.
Ignoring this context, the NPR narrative transforms the religious-political ritual into a benign multicultural celebration
“Dehumanization” and Koranic Anthropology Mayor Mamdani tells NPR that he is painfully reminded of being called "animals, insects... cockroach." The article treats this as evidence of anti-Muslim bigotry.
However, the Islamic Scriptures themselves contain harsh characterizations of unbelievers. Quran 98:6 states that those who reject Islam are "the worst of creatures" (often translated as "the worst of created beings")—worse than cockroaches. This doctrinal view divides humanity into believers and unbelievers, attributing ultimate moral inferiority to the latter.
The NPR report makes no mention of such teachings, creating a one-sided narrative in which the alleged hostility flows only toward Muslims and never from core Islamic doctrine toward non-Muslims.
Public practice of religion as a political activity Mamdani describes his Ramadan gatherings as an "act of rebellion." In a secular context, a government leader organizing repeated public events tied to a comprehensive Islamic legal, political, and military doctrine is itself a political act.
Historically, Islam does not separate religion from governance. Classical Islamic theory views Islam as a complete civilizational system encompassing law (sharia), state policy, social order, and warfare. Therefore, public religious mobilization by political authorities has political significance, even if it is perceived as a cultural promotion
Many forms of jihad Un-Islamic public discourse often equates jihad solely with armed violence. However, Islamic doctrine recognizes many forms, including:
Military jihad — armed struggle such as the 9/11 attacks
Financial Jihad - Financing Islamic Causes
Missionary Jihad (Dawa) - Spreading Islam
Political and Information Jihad - The Progress of Social Islamization
Migration Jihad (Hijrah) - Islamic Political Migration
Personal internal struggle – proportionally irrelevant in Islamic doctrine
Other noticeable effects of Islamic political doctrine on non-Islamic societies: Social
Practice of Islamic polygamy (men can marry a maximum of four women) Any child conceived by a non-Muslim woman is automatically raised as a Muslim. Legal
Sharia civil courts Lobbying for prayer rooms Accusations of Islamophobia Halal food in schools, universities, airports and public facilities Legislation recognizing land ownership as "Waqf" instead of state ownership Cultural
Islamization of education Public prayers obstructing public space State recognition and celebration of Islamic holidays Systematic suppression of the negative image of Islam in public space Rewriting and/or manipulating history (e.g. glorifying the Islamic period) Actions that improve the PR, visibility, or influence of Islam in non-Islamic societies can fall into these nonviolent categories. The goal of jihad is the ultimate spread of Islam, and creating positive public promotion can serve this purpose.
Within this broader framework, high-profile public speeches by a political activist—especially when explicitly designated as rebellious—can be interpreted as a form of political jihad, even in the absence of violence. Political Islam poses a threat to non-Islamic civilizations, even through peaceful jihad. In fact, much more so.
Selective mainstream perspective The NPR article devotes significant and selective attention to criticism of Mamdani from political opponents, characterizing such responses as bigotry or fearmongering. Meanwhile, the ideological content of Islam itself—its legal structure, supremacist claims, and expansionist political doctrine—is absent.
This asymmetry has a powerful narrative effect: Islam appears as a vulnerable minority faith seeking acceptance, while concerns about its political dimension appear irrational or hateful.
Application By portraying Ramadan as purely cultural and presenting Islam as a neutral personal faith, NPR's reporting illustrates how mainstream media sanitizes what is considered a religion, and often wrongly so from a legal perspective. However, Islam is, and always has been, both doctrinally and practically, a complex civil system. Public iftar events organized by government officials are not just dinners ; they are symbolic assertions of a tradition that combines religion, law, and a political system designed to subjugate all others.
Ignoring this dimension does not make it disappear – it only ensures that public debate takes place without full knowledge of the facts.
Dear FRiends,
We need your continuing support to keep FR funded. Your donations are our sole source of funding. No sugar daddies, no advertisers, no paid memberships, no commercial sales, no gimmicks, no tax subsidies. No spam, no pop-ups, no ad trackers.
If you enjoy using FR and agree it's a worthwhile endeavor, please consider making a contribution today:
Click here: to donate by Credit Card
Or here: to donate by PayPal
Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794
Thank you very much and God bless you,
Jim
Uh, kill all infidels?
Are you feeling the love of all this diversity yet? So much stronger now that the rape gangs are on their way here! Yea! It is well worth the billions they have looted legally and illegally is it not?
NPR always hits it out of the ballpark directly into the sewer.
My crazy neighbor gets all her news there and was shouting and crying when darling Kamalala lost the election, Made rather a scene at the clubhouse, almost physically attacked nneighbor who still has a bit of PTSD from serving in Afghanistan.
My dad was a career prison guard.
The guards called it Ramariot.
Diversity will lead us to Islamic CONFORMITY...or...death.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.