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Order Michael Finch’s new book, A Time to Stand: HERE. Prof. Jason Hill calls it “an aesthetic and political tour de force.”
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The excited coverage of Zohran Mamdani’s win in New York City’s mayoral race has suggested that there is a “wave” of new Muslim officeholders. There isn’t. In the first place, Mamdani did not win in a landslide as many had predicted; he squeaked through with 50.4% of the vote against a very weak candidate, Andrew Cuomo, who had been tainted with scandal, having been forced to resign as governor in 2021 after eleven women had charged him with sexual harassment.
Second, the only other Muslim to win a significant office in last week’s election was Ghazala Hashmi, who was elected lieutenant governor of Virginia.
Third, the other significant race involving a Muslim candidate was for mayor of Minneapolis. That candidate was Omar Fateh, a Somali whom Ilhan Omar backed. He lost to the Jewish incumbent, Jacob Frey. Fateh, whom many had thought had a chance to win, lost decisively with only 31% of the vote.
His dubious financial transactions may have had something to do with his loss. Fateh’s salary as a state senator is $51,000, Fateh’s net worth of $6.1 million is, therefore, extraordinary. He bought a house valued at $1.7 million; he has $1 million in the bank; he has foreign assets worth about $1.5 million. He also has $2 million in annual income, which is cause for amazement and alarm. Who has been paying him such a large sum? Has he, for example, received sky-high honoraria for speaking engagements in Qatar, one way that Doha supports Muslims running for office abroad? Or perhaps CAIR has arranged well-paid speeches for him to deliver before Muslim audiences in this country. The source of Fateh’s wealth deserves to be investigated.
More on Omar Fateh’s loss to Jacob Frey can be found here:
After a high-profile race in which he was billed as the “Zohran Mamdani of Minneapolis,” anti-Israel candidate Omar Fateh lost the election for mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Fateh, 35, a Democratic state senator known for his anti-Zionist views and harsh criticism of Israel since Hamas’ October 7, 2023, attack, was defeated by incumbent Mayor Jacob Frey — a Jewish Democrat who has held the post since 2018 and has now won a third term.
Frey led from the first count with 41.7% of the vote, compared with Fateh’s 31.6%. Because no candidate achieved an outright majority, the city’s ranked-choice voting system was activated, and Frey secured a majority in the third round, confirming his reelection.
Fateh, a Somali-born Muslim, has in recent years become one of the most recognizable figures associated with the Democratic Party’s progressive wing. After the October 7 attacks, he wrote that he was “overwhelmed with sorrow for the victims of this violence as well as anger towards both the Israeli Government and Hamas who have senselessly injured and killed thousands of people in a matter of days.”
Thus does Omar Fateh “equally” deplore Hamas, that swept into Israel and proceeded to rape, torture, mutilate, and murder 1,200 innocent Israelis, and the IDF, for entering Gaza to destroy Hamas’s threat to the people and the state of Israel. This is like putting on the same moral plane Imperial Japan, for its sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, and the American government, for declaring war on Japan as a result.
In the city’s Jewish community, the results were met with a mix of relief and unease. “The threat passed this time, but the discourse has clearly changed,” said Rachel Jacobs, a local community activist. “We’ve all learned that Israel is viewed very differently by the younger generation.”
The “Minneapolis Mamdani” could not even win one-third of the vote. His decisive defeat tells us that the “Muslim wave” does not exist. The Mamdani victory itself is being talked about as if it were a landslide; it was instead the narrowest of victories against the weakest of opponents.
And as for Mamdani himself, given his policy proposals — the free buses, the universal childcare, that will be free no matter what the parents’ income, the prohibition on raising rents of rent-stabilized apartments — that, if carried out, will bring about an economic degringolade, with an enormous exodus of the well-off, and of companies, too, from the city and into nearby suburbs, how long do you think he will continue to be popular among that little over half of the electorate that voted him in?
Unfortunately, Mamdani’s popularity may depend more on his ability to blameshift than the magnitude of the disasters he plans on inflicting. Worse, it could even turn out that magnifying the disasters will only magnify gratuitous hate towards the wrong people.
I do, however, agree with what seems to be the tenor of the article, in the sense that we should not let discouragement overwhelm us. Not by a long shot. Islamification, while dangerous, is ultimately weak and their victories should indeed be regarded as merely a temporary setback.
His physiognomy was the deal breaker.
No question – that is one ugly mofo
Classic Somali good looks.
To say the least. If ever there was an excellent example that personifies a mutant, low IQ cluster of inferior genetics it is he.
Tweedle Dum is Elected and Tweedle Dee is left without anything kind of like the Smothers rothers Dick had Everything Tom just had a Chicken
unfortunately it is no mirage , and yes it is reality . now that the barbarians are inside the gates america is doomed . following in the footsteps of europe . watch any of prof. dan schueftan s commentaries on the muslim barbarians to confirm the worst .
So now he can say, “Look at me! Look at me! I’m not the mayor now!”
So, Jeff Dunham’s Achmed the Dead Terrorist look alike for Omar Fateh crashed and burned. I don’t think I’ve ever been so glad to see a soyboy like Jacob Frey win his election
The “Wokies” won’t like this, but….he looks like he should be dressed in camo shorts, bathrobe, used sneakers and holding a rusty AK-47 while riding in a long boat chasing an oil tanker on some unnamed piece of dirty ocean. Like a mangy dog chasing a bus.
This diaper-head camel-jockey looks like a proprietor of a camel-for-sex brothel behind a pyramid !
Granted the numbers cited above don’t lie. That doesn’t mean that the US should let its guard down when it comes to Muslims obtaining government positions or ignoring the real threat of Islamo-Marxists like Mamdani. The threat remains as long as Muslims are allowed to hold office and socialism is touted as the cure-all. Look at Europe and closer to home look at what has become of Dearborn and what is unfolding now in Texas. Slowly at first, then all of a sudden….
When will the youngsters see through the gauze of their WEALTHY “socialist” heroines?
Amusing as hell.
Ironically, nothing much would change from uber kooky Frey and the guy with the ugliest mug in politics.
There is much in common between the fake jews and the too real Islamists. Neither of them believe in their religion’s “claptrap” – just identity politics pushed to the limits.
Mamdani won with “only” 50% of the vote is small comfort when we remember that Hitler received “only” 43.9% of the vote in the 1933 German federal election. The fact that half of the people in NYC who care enough to vote preferred a Jew-hating communist to the other two top candidates together is a tragic commentary on America’s doomed 21st century demographics.
Mamdani’s understanding of imperialism informs his stance on everything from policing to foreign policy.
The personal safety of Mamdani is a genuine concern given the controversial nature of his stances.