Analyzing Tuesday’s elections in New York and Virginia in Republican vs. Democrat terms the results could be viewed as merely a return to pre-Trump stasis – Democrats won in places they normally win. However, these weren’t R vs. D elections, they were Muslim Sharia Law vs. Constitutional Liberty elections, and Constitutional Liberty lost badly.
Some will argue that this was a Socialism vs. Capitalism election, but Americans have flirted with Socialism and Socialist candidates before, and the Socialist momentum always recedes. Eugene V. Debbs received over 1 million votes for President campaigning from prison against racist Democrat Woodrow Wilson and in the early part of the 20th century socialists running in local and state elections briefly held over 1,000 local offices.
In 2021, there were more socialists in Congress than any point in US history, most of whom are members of Democratic Socialists of America, as is New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, but their electoral success has receded with their numbers reduced in recent primaries where two were defeated by “mainstream” Democrats.
However, to the extent that Socialism (or better said, Communism) was on the ballot Tuesday that is true only to the extent that Socialism was used to mask Islamism, just as it was used in Iran to mask the creation of the Islamic Republic of Iran, with Ayatollah Khomeini as Supreme Leader.
For those new readers of CHQ who have not followed our coverage of this sinister force of “civilization jihad,” the Muslim Brotherhood, to which Zorhan Mamdani has been credibly associated, was founded in 1928, and aims to organize Muslims politically in order to create a global Islamic Caliphate.
The Muslim Brotherhood is a vast and sophisticated international Islamist organization—its dedication to Jihad and participation in terrorism represents a significant threat to the United States. What’s more, it’s advocacy of the anti-constitutional doctrine of Sharia supremacy and its attempts to set-up Islamist parallel societies here and in other western democracies, such as Sweden, represents a direct threat to American constitutional government.
Shay Khatiri, writing for the Middle East Forum suggests Mamdani is not so much an Islamist as a Muslim Tribalist, quoting the Hudson Institute’s Zineb Riboua who observed, “What Mamdani represents is not a new movement but the return of an older sensibility that America itself once resisted and outlasted,” she explained. “His stances on housing, policing, and Palestine channel global anti-imperial heritage into American realities. The landlord morphs into the colonizer, the tenant into the colonized.”
According to Khatiri, this tribalist view, the white race has exploited Middle Eastern Muslims along with the rest of the Third World. He sees Jews as white settlers and Palestinians as colored natives. For Mamdani, Muslims are first among unequals. It is in this context that Mamdani falsely stated his aunt feared wearing a hijab in New York after the September 11, 2001, terror attacks.
Mamdani’s tribalism manifested itself in his condemnation of attacks on Iran’s nuclear sites, initial omission of Muslim states in his condemnation of ethno-states, refusal to call on Hamas to put down its arms, and his association with radical imams. Despite his apparently secular personal life, he views solidarity with Islamists as essential.
We see Islamism vs. “Muslim Tribalism” as a distinction without much of a difference since both are at war with Western Judeo-Christian Civilization.
Islam’s other big win in this round of Civilization Jihad battles was in Virginia, where Indian-born Muslim Ghazala Hashmi was elected Lt. Governor, putting her in line to succeed Far Left Democrat Governor-Elect Abigail Spanberger.
Born in Hyderabad, India, and raised in Georgia, Hashmi was elected to Virginia’s Senate, representing Richmond, in 2019.
Hashmi told Religion News her Muslim faith guides her policies, she said. “In Islam, we’re commanded to take care of those who are sick among us, to feed the hungry, to provide shelter to those who have no housing, to take care of the orphan and provide education to the young, to care for our elders. I take those basic guidelines and translate them into the policy choices,” she said, adding that her faith is part of her “approach in terms of the responsibility to move the needle on social justice.”
However, beyond the eleemosynary precepts of her Muslim faith she is totally on board with the Islamist agenda. Last year, the Jewish Insider reported, Hashmi, who chaired the state Senate’s Education and Health Committee, led a hearing to address the wave of anti-Israel protests that had been roiling Virginia college campuses and for which she had voiced approval in a previous statement that commended the student demonstrators as caring “deeply about human rights.”
Described as a “leading progressive in the Virginia legislature, Hashmi was among a small handful of lawmakers who abstained from voting on two bills that would protect Virginia’s Jews from discrimination. The first, in 2023, adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of antisemitism as a tool for combating antisemitic hate crimes. The second, during last year’s session, was aimed at combating antisemitism through the prohibition of discrimination by ethnic origin in employment and places of public accommodation.
Even as Hashmi had not opposed the bills directly, she worked behind the scenes to lobby colleagues to choose not to vote, according to one Jewish leader familiar with the matter.
Hashmi was also an attendee and speaker at a pro-Hamas event calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, organized by radical Islamists, including the Arab American Association of Central Virginia, Richmonders for Peace in Israel-Palestine and Virginia Defenders for Freedom, Justice and Equality.
Excusing the harboring of terrorists in remarks at the event she said, according to VPM.org, “No family should be illegally evicted from a home in which they have lived for generations. A home in which they have celebrated weddings and mourned their loved ones. A home in which they have planted roots and olive trees, and nurtured their children.”
Those who do not follow the Muslim civilization jihad being waged against the United States may see Tuesday’s election as Democrats vs. Republicans or Socialists vs. Capitalists, but don’t be fooled, the battle was Muslim Sharia law vs. Constitutional Liberty, and in Tuesday’s elections Constitutional Liberty lost badly.
George Rasley is editor of Richard Viguerie's ConservativeHQ.com. A veteran of over 300 political campaigns, he served as a staff member or advance representative for some of America’s most recognized conservative political figures, including Ronald Reagan, Sarah Palin and Jack Kemp. A member of American MENSA, he served on the House and Senate staff and on the staff of Vice President Dan Quayle. Rasley is a graduate of Hanover College and studied international affairs at Oxford University's Worcester College. Rasley has lived, worked and travelled extensively in the Muslim world, including staffing Vice President Quayle on official visits to Saudi Arabia and Indonesia.
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