Can various righties please quit raging about how Zohran Mamdani is a closet Islamist?
There’s no shortage of real reasons to oppose his campaign for mayor: His resume is tissue-thin, he plays footsy with rabid Jew-haters, and his economic plans would destroy our city’s prosperity.
But that’s because he subscribes to an elitist, campus-cultured socialism — not because he’s a Muslim, let alone of the extreme fundamentalist variety.
Islamists seek to create a global caliphate and convert the world by the sword. Mamdani shows no sign of interest in anything like that.
At most, he’s about radical anticolonial politics: His dad is a leading scholar and advocate of that movement.
This brand of anti-Western politics is found throughout the Third World; cool-kid lefties on Western campuses have been eating it up for decades now.
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