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Is it “Islamophobic” to wonder if New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has a soft spot for Islamic terrorists? Hardly. “God forbid, another 9/11—can you imagine Mamdani in the seat?” New York mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo told WABC’s “Sid and Friends in the Morning” this week. “He’d be cheering,” host Sid Rosenberg replied. “That’s another problem,” Cuomo added. To this, Mamdani and his allies exploded in feigned outrage. Why? We already know Mamdani has allied with those who want to bring the “Intifada” against Jewish Americans in New York and elsewhere. We know that Mamdani is comfortable associating and allying with those who cheer and excuse the murder of infidels. Last week, he “had the pleasure of meeting” Siraj Wahhaj, one of the “foremost Muslim leaders and a pillar of the Bed-Stuy community for nearly half a century.” Wahhaj, born Jeffrey Kearse, is a champion of Islamic supremacism. And not the brand of trendy, socialist, Hamas-cheering supremacism that Mamdani and his friends engage in. Wahhaj supports overturning the system (“I pray one day Allah will bless us to raise an army”) and installing medieval Muslim doctrine (“Islam is better than democracy … Islam prevails over every kind of system, and you know what? It will happen.”) The Imam of the Muslim Alliance in North America, who often hosted the infamous Blind Sheikh and other conspirators in 1993 World Trade Center bombing, says he would be honored to die for Jihad, and admits his politics are just a “weapon in the cause of Islam.” Indeed, Wahhaj defended the 1993 World Trade Center bombers while attacking law enforcement as the real enemy. It makes sense since Wahhaj believes the U.S. is “filthy” and “sick.” And perhaps Mamdani’s fans agree with that observation. When Mamdani was called out for praising Wahhaj, he didn’t concede that the imam’s positions were abhorrent. Instead, he whined about how other politicians had also met Wahhaj. None of those politicians has a mentor and father in Mahmood Mamdani, who argued three years after 9/11 that suicide bombings should not be “stigmatized as a mark of barbarism.” None of them wrote and performed a rap song that glorified Hamas financiers. None of them appeared with popular podcaster Hasan Piker, who explicitly said that the U.S. deserved the 9/11 attacks. On political grounds, it’s nearly incomprehensible to think that any politician could get away with this kind of association less than 25 years after the greatest terror attack against the United States. Piker not only believes that the U.S. got what was coming to it on 9/11 but that “it doesn’t matter if rapes f—-ing happened on Oct. 7.” Where was the outrage from the Left? It’s true that this kind of talk has been destigmatized on social media, but Piker is no different, morally speaking, from a white supremacist. Imagine the stories we’d be reading about Cuomo if he had an amiable conversation with a racist alt-right podcaster. It took until very recently, and only when pressed by Cuomo during a live televised debate, for Mamdani to distance himself from Piker’s 9/11 comments. You’ll excuse me if I find his condemnation disingenuous. Of course, Mamdani’s defenders accused Cuomo of being “Islamophobic.” What else is new? This vacuous term is meant to chill speech, and nothing more. There are, of course, bigots in this country. But “Islamophobia” is cynical manipulation of language. Islam is not a race or a set of people. It’s a set of beliefs. The woke Left might view everyone in racial terms, but people with critical thinking skills have every right to question extremism within any faith or ideology. “Democratic” socialism is an accelerant for Islamic extremism. Now, obviously, Manhattan isn’t going to turn into a caliphate any time soon. Big cities often elect absurd mayors. But if you don’t believe the red-green alliance is worth concerning yourself over, you haven’t been paying attention to the disaster unfolding in Western Europe, where the Left allows the sensibilities and traditions of unassimilated Islamic newcomers to trump basic liberal freedoms. Would Zohran Mamdani celebrate 9/11? I don’t know. But the candidate has proven a little problematic associating with theocrats and rationalizing violent rhetoric. New Yorkers have every right to be suspicious of how he would react. COPYRIGHT 2025 CREATORS.COM We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post It’s Not ‘Islamophobic’ To Wonder How Mamdani Would React to 9/11 appeared first on The Daily Signal.

I write from a quiet, mountainous part of Central Europe. The scenery is idyllic, and the fall air is crisp. But much as the case has been in my other recent trips to the European continent, the sights I see and the conversations I hear are all underscored by a similar haunting concern: Will there even be a Europe, in any cognizable sense of the term, a century from now? All across the continent, fertility rates have plummeted, and the Christianity that defined the civilization for two millennia is viewed as a quaint relic of a bygone era. The combination of modern European Union political and economic integration on the one hand, combined with imposed mass immigration from foreign (namely, Islamic) cultures on the other hand, has led to a place where sense of home and hearth is diminished—and along with it, community, meaning and purpose. In Britain, two Jews were killed following a synagogue attack by a Syrian immigrant on the holiest day on the Jewish calendar. In Germany—yes, Germany—Jews have already been advised for years against wearing a kippah head covering in public. More generally, Europeans’ personal happiness levels have seemingly gravitated away from church and children, the traditional sources of meaning, and toward a discomfiting positive correlation with the size of a nation’s welfare state. The stunning Louvre museum heist earlier this week in Paris offers an uncanny encapsulation of the broader society-wide phenomenon. On Sunday, thieves disguised as construction workers stole, during broad daylight, eight pieces of the French crown jewels estimated to be worth roughly $100 million. And perhaps the most astonishing aspect of this real-life caper is this: As of this writing, the thieves have not been caught. The utterly humiliating inability of French authorities to either prevent the theft of the literal crown jewels or promptly arrest the perpetrators after the fact is the most poetic possible way to demonstrate a point that has come up in so many of my conversations this week: At best, European political and cultural elites have no interest in protecting and preserving their culture; and at worst, they have an interest in seeing that culture replaced root and branch. Back home in the United States, the situation is in some ways not so different. It was concern about decades of reckless American immigration policy and elite-driven cultural decadence, above all, that first propelled Donald Trump to the White House in 2016. The chief difference in this respect between the United States and Europe, besides America’s more robust (if still declining) church, is thus primarily a political one. Trump is now a two-term president, whereas the only major European country to have a right-of-center leader today is Italy. Viktor Orban of Hungary cannot do it all by himself. Amidst the prevailing transatlantic cultural currents of nihilism, childlessness and general dissatisfaction, it has never been more important that political leaders offer a robust defense of their respective homelands and a compelling vision for those homelands’ future. Sincerity of religious conviction and the utilitarian value of religious community are both time-tested ways of offering meaning and stability in a person’s life, but there is a role to be played by an anodyne nationalism as well. Following religious conviction, pride in one’s homeland and confidence in its future is the sentiment that very well might induce the most people to get married and have children. If one hates his country and thinks it is evil, or even if he merely thinks the future of his country looks positively dire, he might well be less inclined to make the tremendous investment of bringing new life into the world. What is the point, one might well conclude, of raising children in a hellish, dystopian future? Trump’s political success is partially due to his keen understanding of this very phenomenon. One can always quibble on the merits or demerits of a certain policy approach, but Trump’s signature “Make America Great Again” tagline grasps at an ineluctable truth: America, for various reasons, had been in decline, but the man in charge now understands that and plans to turn things around. Across Europe, there is much that can be learned from the Trump example. But that begins with evincing a simple desire to defend the existence and perpetuity of one’s culture. It begins with a meaningful determination to prolong the lifespan of a particular nation, in Edmund Burke’s famous sense of the term, as a social compact between the dead, the living and the yet unborn. In Paris, perhaps it begins by defending the nation’s literal crown jewels. Surely that isn’t too much to ask for, is it? COPYRIGHT 2025 CREATORS.COM We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Louvre Heist Encapsulates a Western Culture That Will Not Defend Itself appeared first on The Daily Signal.

The Chemtrails Task Force has just made its biggest breakthrough yet — and it’s shaking the White House to its core. President Trump has always stood with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in the fight against [...] The post Trump Warns Bill Gates His ‘Days Are Numbered’ Following RFK’s Chemtrails Intervention appeared first on The People's Voice.