Zohran Mamdani: The Islamo-Leftist Trojan Horse in New York Politics
Excerpts from Richard Luthmann; Substack article of Jun 26 · This is For Real.
"Zohran Mamdani is not just a socialist candidate—he’s the canary in the coal mine for a far more dangerous movement. His rise marks the fusion of identitarian wokeism with Islamist apologism—a worldview hostile to liberal democracy, national identity, and basic Western values.
Mamdani has praised Hamas-linked figures, justified violent uprisings, and surrounded himself with extremists who glorify political assassins. Yet he’s being framed as a progressive trailblazer. If elected mayor of New York City, Mamdani will serve as a cultural battering ram—normalizing the ideological rot of Islamo-gauchisme under the guise of “social justice.” Voters beware.
The likely next mayor of New York City embodies all the sinister orthodoxies of contemporary groupthink
Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old socialist, has just won the NYC mayoral primary. He is now odds-on to become the city’s first Muslim mayor.
Born in Uganda to Indian parents, Mamdani moved to the U.S. as a child and became a naturalised citizen in 2018. His rise has been rapid—until relatively recently, most New Yorkers had never heard of him.
He’s being lauded as a compassionate warrior for social justice, which is generally a very reliable indicator that the opposite is true. And so it proves in this case.
Here are a few highlights:
• In 2017, Mamdani released a rap track called ‘Salaam’, about growing up Muslim in New York, in which he expresses his ‘love’ for five men known as the ‘Holy Land Five’. This is a reference to the heads of the now-defunct Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development—Shukri Abu Baker, Mohammad El-Mezain, Ghassan Elashi, Mufid Abdulqader and Abdulrahman Odeh—who were convicted by a federal jury in 2008 of channelling millions of dollars to Hamas, a proscribed terrorist organisation.
• He’s defended cries of ‘globalise the intifada’ as ‘capturing a desire for equality’. For context, “Intifada” implies ‘bloody violence and calls for the death and murder of Jewish Israelis – civilian or otherwise.’ During previous ‘intifadas’ suicide bombers and knifemen targeted civilians throughout Israel at cafés, restaurants full of kids, hotels, wedding ceremonies, shopping malls, nightclubs, and bus stations, resulting in many hundreds of deaths.
• On Oct 8 2023, while a jihadist pogrom that would ultimately claim over 1200 lives was still ongoing, he tweeted taking aim at…Israeli ‘apartheid and occupation’. His post singled out Netanyahu and the Israeli government for criticism by name, but didn’t once mention Hamas. This presumably made his father Mahmood Mamdani, an academic at Columbia University who teaches about ‘the necessity of violence in anti-colonial struggle’ (and one of his donors), very proud. Mamdani Senior has called for the ‘dismantling of the Jewish state’, and signed a public letter referring to Hamas’ massacre as ‘an occupied people exercising a right to resist violent and illegal occupation’. Nice family. What better way to show gratitude to your host nation than by fraudulently depicting it as an oppressive dystopia and making pseudo-intellectual arguments in defence of movements that pose real threats to liberty, tolerance and free thought?
• His voting behaviour raises a few questions to say the least. For instance, why would a man lauded for his supposed commitment to fighting ‘bigotry’ in all its forms fail to sign a State Assembly resolution commemorating Holocaust victims? A real noodle-scratcher…
• In light of the points listed so far, it’s perhaps unsurprising that the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) have allegedly backed him to the tune of many thousands of dollars. CAIR was originally founded in 1994 as part of a broader network linked to the Islamic Association for Palestine, which U.S. authorities identified as a propaganda arm of Hamas in the U.S. One of its co-founders has stated, quote, ‘I am in support of the Hamas movement’, its officials have repeatedly refused to condemn Islamist and jihadist outfits including Hamas and Hezbollah in interviews, and it has reportedly teamed up with Muslim Brotherhood-linked preachers.
• At the height of the Maoist-style moral panic around race in 2020, Mamdani fanned its flames. He called explicitly for the police to be defunded—despite the near-certainty that this would lead to a sharp rise in violent crime and fatalities within the black community—and pushed to abolish certain standardised tests on the grounds that they’re racist, presumably because the only acceptable exam is one that delivers identical outcomes for every ethnic group. He’s also spent years complaining about white privilege (of course).
• He seemingly supports revolutionary communists.
• His campaign political director, Julian Gerson, was revealed to have posted online in praise of Luigi Mangione, who shot UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson — a father of two — in the back and killed him. On facebook, Gerson suggested that a street should be renamed in honour of Mangione, writing he was ‘looking forward to driving down Mangione Avenue a few decades from now.’ Veneration, in other words, for the use of deadly violence against unarmed civilians for political ends.
• Oh yes, and he fakes his accent (as I’ve discussed elsewhere, this is unforgivable).
In short, the guy is the embodiment of Islamo-gauchisme. He echoes Islamist talking points while simultaneously parroting all the most fact-lite tenets of identitarian progressivism. And he’s got the backing of everyone from AOC and Jeremy Corbyn, to Nazi-praising Islamic YouTubers."
One of the greatest cities on the planet is doomed if this guy is elected mayor.
