Americans across the country usually have little reason to pay close attention to the politics of New York City — despite its size and status as the world’s financial capital — because it rarely affects them. However, as New Yorkers head to the ballot box next week to vote in the most significant mayoral race in decades, the eyes of the nation are fixated on the rise of a Marxist-Islamist as their likely choice in a city the nation rallied around in the wake of the attacks of 9/11.
Zohran Mamdani, a self-proclaimed socialist, pro-Islamist, and naturalized U.S. citizen from Uganda, is poised to win the race. At the most basic level, his ideas stand in opposition to core American values and the principles of a properly functioning republic, and as Election Day looms closer, Mamdani is asserting his connection to Islam. Just last week, Mamdani presented his “aunt” as the victim in the wake of the 9/11 attacks because she feared anti-Muslim backlash. In a recent mayoral debate, Mandani told New Yorkers that his opponent, Andrew Cuomo, shouldn’t be mayor of New York because “he couldn’t name a single mosque … that he visited.”
Additionally, Mamdani has posted a picture of himself with Imam Siraj Wahhaj, whom he called “one of the nation’s foremost Muslim leaders.” Wahhaj, at one point in time, was suggested as a co-conspirator of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing that killed six New Yorkers. Wahhaj has also urged “jihad” upon New York City, and still, Mamdani called Wahhaj a “pillar of the Bed-Stuy community.”
Mamdani is the poster child for the modern Democrat Party, hiding behind the veneer of pro-immigration policy to foster a purposeful, planned, and strategic effort to advance an “Islamic cultural revolution” designed to fundamentally alter America’s identity. This shift will transform America from a melting pot into a loaded cannon in which the least of our worries will be thousands of Muslims taking to the streets for prayer and parades, or a viral video showing a young woman proclaiming her acceptance of Islam in Times Square, a location often called “the center of the universe.”
But this cultural transformation is not limited to New York City. It is occurring nationwide. Hamtramck, Michigan, a small city within Detroit, has been “flooded” with immigrants and is the first city in the United States to have an all-Muslim elected city council.
John Carlisle of the Detroit Free Press wrote: “The nation’s first and only all-Muslim City Council had just voted to rename Holbrook Avenue — one of Hamtramck’s main arteries — Palestine Avenue, in reaction to the Israel-Hamas war, then in its fourth month. The road was originally named after Dewitt Holbrook, a 19th-Century lawyer who owned a farm not far from this very spot. The name had stuck for about 125 years. Until this day.”
In Texas, there is a debate over whether to permit or deny the construction of the East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC), a proposed 400-acre complex that would essentially function as an Islamic city, including homes, a shopping center, and a mosque.
Under the Trump administration, many immigration policies long sought by conservatives have been implemented. Are they permanent? Not yet. Who can make them permanent? Congress.
It is critical that my fellow Republicans in Congress recognize the gravity of this moment and work to implement meaningful immigration policies that will serve as the foundation of America’s immigration laws for generations.
For example, we could pass a border security package such as H.R. 2, the Secure the Border Act, which was passed by the House in the 118th Congress. This legislation would, among many things, tighten the asylum and parole policies abused by the Biden regime, eliminate the catch-and-release policies that have plagued our system for decades, supercharge the building of the border wall, and require the nationwide use of E-Verify by employers.
But Congress must also amend its legal immigration system to stop the absurd self-destruction we’ve brought on ourselves. For example, we can and should pause immigration until we’ve addressed the magnet of so-called birthright citizenship and eliminated the often-abused diversity visa and chain migration programs. Further, we should take up and pass H.R. 5722, the Preserving a Sharia-Free America Act.
Republicans must not shy away from tough conversations. For too long, Republicans have avoided addressing the complex issues of immigration for fear of upsetting those who seek cheap labor or a “high tech” workforce — all while continuing to borrow trillions of dollars to fund welfare and programs that are killing American workers. Today, we are living with the results of this failure, with more than 50 million foreign-born people living in America. This is the highest percentage of foreign-born residents in our history, and their ranks are filled with many who have come from countries often considered our enemies.
Our nation stands at a crossroads, and alarm bells are going off in New York City. Will we continue to import millions of people who wish to remake the American Dream rather than live it? Or will we defend and protect the America that has bled the ground red around the world to advance the principles of freedom, democracy, and Judeo-Christian values that embody Western civilization?
We cannot win a war we aren’t even willing to acknowledge is being waged against us. It’s high time we do.
