Playing the victim card all the way into the mayor’s office.
In what at first glance seems to be nothing more than just a saccharine, sentimental display of performed outrage and feigning victimhood, Zohran Mamdani, the New York City Mayoral candidate slated to become the Big Apple’s first Muslim mayor, instead pitched a dangerous performance that can only be described as a subtle incitement to elicit Muslim rage and resentment against the United States of America.
In an address to his constituents on Friday, October 24, Mamdani listed a tearful bevy of indignities that Muslims faced in America in the wake of the Islamic attack against the United States on September 11, 2001. He emotionally recalled how his late aunt was fearful of wearing her hijab on the New York subway for fear of reprisals. He was happy his mosque was not burnt to the ground, but he complained that to be a Muslim in New York was to suffer endless indignities.
He bemoaned the fact that not every Muslim in New York was treated the same as every other New Yorker. He claimed that Muslims lived in the shadows, that they had been asked to settle for less, and forced to settle for whatever little they received. Specifically addressing his fellow Muslims in the audience, he asked them if they would remain in the shadows or step into the light.
In what can only be described as hyperbolic defiance, he listed the number of days remaining until the Mayoral election and then stated: I will not change who I am, how I eat, or practice the faith I am proud to call my own.”
And further: “I will be a Muslim man each of those days.”
Let us begin with the last the last proclamation, that he will be a Muslim man for each of those days. What is the fundamental intention of a mayoral candidate who is supposed to be representing the residents of New York City regardless of their race, religious creed, ethnicity, or any personal identity they align with in making such a declaration? What is his message? Before we explore the dark side of Mr. Mamdani’s agenda, consider for a moment the outrage that would follow if a white candidate addressed his constituents and said, “In the remaining days leading up to the election I will be a white man each of those days”; or a Jewish candidate announcing “I intend to be a Jewish man for the remainder of my candidacy.” What if President Obama had run on a platform in which he emphasized past injustices against black people and announced that as a Presidential candidate he would be a black man each of the remaining months or days until his candidacy came to an end? Consider the most extreme version of any scenario: a gay mayoral candidate announcing I will be a homosexual man each of those days remaining until the election.
Reasonable folks know what their responses would be in the scenarios outlined. They would sense the pestilential odor of tribal politics, the concomitant political and moral divisiveness that is explicit in the statements, and they would properly reject such candidates as identitarian political hacks at best.
In his defense, Mamdani was responding to what he experienced as anti-Muslim comments exchanged between his mayoral rival, former Governor Andrew Cuomo, and WAMC radio host, Sid Rosenberg. During the radio interview on Friday, October 24, Cuomo questioned Mamdani’s ability to govern and wondered how he would lead and respond if another 9/11 attack occurred on American soil. Rosenberg suggested that Mamdani would be cheering. Cuomo laughed at the comment and responded, “That’s another problem,” then continued to question Mamdani’s ability to lead in times of crisis.
Politics is a cruel bloodsport. If Mamdani thought the attack was baseless and unfair, then the best manner in which to defend himself would have been to assert his American identity, his patriotism, and his commitment to defending America and the values and foundational principles that secure the republic.
But that is not what he did. He traded moral principle for manufactured discontent in his Muslim supporters. One senses he was only too happy to be criticized so that he could use the opportunity to arouse the disgruntled sentiments of Muslim Americans and immigrants, and to incite rage in those who had not any. --->READ MORE HERE
Diversity is, you know, our strength.
The left has been working for years on the world we live in now, and all around us we can see the fruit of their labors: dirty, dangerous cities, homeless encampments, cannabis stores, rising crime, and so much more. New York’s WABC on Friday gave us another reason to thank our leftist bureaucrats and elected officials as it told a harrowing story: “A man is under arrest on Friday in a gruesome homicide on Long Island after his wife was found dead and suffering from facial burns — covered with a chemical substance.”
Why would the horrific prospect of a husband murdering his wife be the result of the left’s policies? Because this was an attempted Islamic honor killing, that is, a killing carried out in accord with the teachings of the religion that the left insists is peaceful and tolerant, on pain of charges of “Islamophobia,” and professional and possibly even personal ruin.
In Herricks, Long Island, “authorities say Aleena Asif, 46, was suffocated with a cyanide-like compound by her estranged husband, who was stalking her after she demanded a divorce.” And now “her husband, 53-year-old Asif Qureshi, was arraigned on second degree murder charges on Friday morning and held without bail as a flight risk. Prosecutors said they will ask a grand jury to indict him on first degree murder charges.”
The WABC report sets out the details of the case with chilling succinctness, its matter-of-fact reportage failing to conceal what must have been months of fear and terror for Aleena Asif: “The two fought over money and their multiple homes, and Qureshi agreed to a separation agreement in late 2024. Asif request a full divorce this summer. On October 9, he was served divorce papers, which he refused to take. He began showing up at her house, starting the next day, and multiple subsequent dates, in a pattern of stalking, officials say. Authorities allege he entered her home last Friday, waited for his wife to drop off the children at school, and then killed her.”
Asif Qureshi, a naturalized American citizen, “has one prior arrests for a domestic incident with his wife, which is sealed. He five prior domestic incidents dating back to 2023, four with his wife and one with his daughter. He once allegedly threatened to force her to swallow bleach. No orders of protection had been issued.”
WABC doesn’t get into why Qureshi might have felt justified in doing all this. The Qur’an says: “Men have authority over women because Allah has made the one superior to the other, and because they spend their wealth to maintain them. Good women are obedient. They guard their unseen parts because Allah has guarded them. As for those from whom you fear disobedience, admonish them and send them to beds apart and beat them.” (4:34) --->READ MORE HEREFollow link below to a relevant story:
+++++How Zohran Mamdani's Policies Could Be DANGEROUS For Women in Abusive Relationships, with Rich Lowry+++++
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