In the wake of Zohran Mamdani’s election to mayor of New York City, an interesting spate of postings on X are providing food for thought about what comes next. For example, an influencer with nearly 381,000 followers and identified on X simply as “Dr. Maalouf,” posted a video on November 5 that shows an “Islamic imam” explaining how Muslims plan to “take over America.”

In the video, which was clearly recorded before Mamdani rose to power, the imam tells his audience: “Dream big. Have a vision.” He remarks that people once laughed at the idea of Muslims “taking over Mecca. What happened?” he asks rhetorically. “What is Mecca now?” He chuckles, then says:

• No one can stop [us] from having a Muslim president.... It’s coming. Change is coming to America. First, work towards electing a Muslim mayor. Then, at the next election, nominate people [Muslims] for the school boards of education. Nominate people for the local township[s]. Soon the demographics change.

He continues: “Muslims have the most children. According to research, Muslim households have 3.4 children per family. The white American has one child per family.” While he concedes that such a takeover may not happen in his lifetime, he encourages his audience to “think about your grandchildren.”

Dr. Maalouf’s post attracted a flurry of responses. One subscriber posted a video of an alleged escapee from Iran now living in the U.K. who accused mayor-elect Mamdani of promising New Yorkers “the same things Khomeini promised when he got into power: Free bus rides, free gas and electricity, free housing; exactly the same as Zohran Mamdani” is promising.

In his rant, the Iranian went on:

• Mamdani even eats with his hands. Who eats with their hands? This guy is trying to pretend to be like a Muslim, and trying to be so cool. The guy wasn’t even born in an Islamic country. I tell you; New York is going down; the West is going down. It’s all a trick.... It’s the unholy marriage of Islamism and Marxism, and these are the enem[ies] from within.... I’m trying to warn you as an Iranian dissident. Don’t trust these people. They try to be friendly and smiling and they come up with all these fake promises. And before you know it, they take over your society, and you will be living in a Sharia-Communist society. Wake up, West!

Muslim-socialist connection

When the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) met in Chicago in August, they celebrated Mamdani’s win in the Democrat Party primary and proclaimed themselves now “in charge” of the party. While it’s unclear how many of the approximately 1,200 convention delegates identified as Muslim, the mood as described by The Washington Free Beacon was decidedly anti-Israeli and pro-Palestinian, evidence that the DSA is significantly influenced by Muslims.

According to an article by Muslim immigrant and former Democrat, Asra Nomani, “an alliance of socialists, Islamists, and Democrats can be traced back to a 2008 email to Democratic operative John Podesta.”

Nomani’s article was published by a number of media outlets including US Newsper.com and Fox News, and answered in depth the question of how “a 33-year-old socialist Muslim who wants to defund the police, globalize the intifada, and destroy capitalism, has emerged as the Democratic Party’s nominee for New York City mayor, with leaders like former President Bill Clinton fawning over him.” Of course, Mamdani won in the general election.

In recent years, Asra Nomani has emerged as one of the country’s key parent leaders fighting race ideology and other woke curricula in the schools. (See Education Reporter, April 2024, and October 2021.) Through her in-depth investigative reporting, her recent article traces “how socialists (red) and Muslims (green) seized the Democratic Party (blue) over a long 20-year campaign.”

She writes: “At 9:28 p.m. on Dec. 12, 2008, former ACLU civil rights lawyer Ann Beeson sent an email to former Clinton administration senior advisor John Podesta.” Through his Center for American Progress, Podesta was being tapped to persuade the incoming Obama Administration “to halt policies that allegedly targeted Muslim, South Asian, and Arab communities.”

Nomani found Beeson’s email significant in that, in light of her research, it represented the culmination of a decades-long ideological drive that began with Muslim international students arriving at U.S. colleges and universities in the 1960s. Nomani explains that many of these students were not here “just to study, as my father did at Rutgers University, but to lay the institutional groundwork for political Islam, or Islamism, in the United States.”

By the 1980s, Islamists had a strategic base set up in Herndon, Virginia, and by 2006, a campaign was underway “to weaponize the term ‘Islamophobia’ to silence critics of extremist Islam” in the wake of 911. Nomani writes: “American Muslim leaders seized the moment to re-engineer the national security narrative, using American philanthropic networks like the House of Soros as a Trojan horse to racialize Islam, frame Muslims as the ‘oppressed’ and embed illiberal ideologies within America’s liberal institutions, including the Democratic Party.”

As readers might ask, is it any surprise that the name Soros would pop up in relation to subversive activity that could potentially be harmful to the U.S.? Nomani notes that Soros “pumped money into Barack Obama’s presidential campaign,” and that his alleged philanthropic institutions funded the dismantling of “Bush-era counterterrorism policies.”

She relates: “A Pearl Project analysis of 38 documents detailing the operations and funding of the National Security and Human Rights Campaign revealed the coordinated efforts of progressive and Islamist activists to reframe post-9/11 narratives. The aim: clear the path for red-green candidates like Mamdani.”

In addition, the civil rights group, Muslim Advocates, founded in 2005, “grew nearly 10-fold, from $76,331.03 in annual revenues in 2005 to $992,892 in 2023.” Nomani adds that the progressive Brennan Center for Social Justice, which champions pro-Islamic causes, enjoyed a revenue explosion “from $6.6 million to $57.9 million during the same period.”

With financial backing by Soros and other progressive donors, Muslim groups, progressives, and leftist media allies funded ReThink Media, which Nomani reports “became the loudspeaker for the red and the green....”

One of ReThink’s narratives was that Muslims were under attack in the West, and that in the U.S., they would be defended by the Democrat Party, a storyline which, Nomani says, “took hold in the post-Obama landscape.”

Red, green, blue marriage

Interestingly, Nomani shows that much of the anti-Trump hysteria was fomented and funded by Muslim activist groups and those in communion with them. She writes that in 2016, Bernie Sanders’ Justice Democrats, “a socialist group that he co-founded and which later propelled Muslim politicians Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar into Congress,” was taken over by Sanders’ surrogate, Palestinian-American activist Linda Sarsour. She rose to lead “Democratic ‘resistance’” to then-candidate Trump, and “was heralded by the New York Times as a ‘Brooklyn homegirl in hijab.’”

Nomani relates that Sarsour launched “MPower Change under the umbrella of another big-money Democrat-aligned donor, NEO Philanthropy Inc., to advance ‘Muslim Power.’ She hired Yasmine Taeb, the ‘first Muslim woman elected to the National Democratic Party,’ according to her official bio, and got at least $260,000 in seed money, some of it from the House of Soros’s Proteus Fund.”

Nomani’s research has uncovered a fascinating, albeit almost impossible to follow spiderweb of activist groups, NGOs, funding streams, and individuals to demonstrate how Muslim-socialist groups have seized control of the Democrat Party.

US Newsper.com summarized the main strategy employed by the many players as “to silence critics” through name calling and accusations of “racism, xenophobia, and Islamophobia.” These tactics “serve to intimidate dissenting voices and create a culture of fear.”

Muslim candidates: the numbers

The RAIR Foundation USA on November 9 posted the numbers of Muslim candidates that it says were backed by a “Hamas-linked network,” who have won key offices across America, “proving that the Muslim Brotherhood’s plan to infiltrate from mosque to city hall is no longer a warning, but a reality.”

RAIR describes itself as a grassroots organization “comprised of everyday Americans leading a movement to reclaim our Republic from the network of individuals and organizations waging war on Americans, our constitution, our borders, and our Judeo-Christian values.”

The November 4 election results show that “a record” 42 Muslim candidates were elected to public office across the U.S., according to CAIR’s data, with one race still pending due to a recount.

RAIR writes that this year’s election results include, of course, Zohran Mamdani’s victory as mayor of New York City, but also Ghazala Hashmi who won in Virginia, the first Muslim lieutenant governor in U.S. history and the first Muslim woman to be elected statewide.

Other highlights include the mayors of Michigan’s largest Muslim-majority cities, Dearborn and Dearborn Heights, and the reelection of Hamtramck, Michigan’s Muslim mayor in a close race. There is a new Muslim mayor of College Park, Maryland, and two new Muslim judges, one in Franklin County, Ohio, and one in New York.

Additionally, as the imam in Dr. Maalouf’s posted video instructed his audience, 20 Muslim city and town council members and commissioners won elections, along with 6 school board members.

RAIR warns: “While political leaders and journalists applaud the surface optics of ‘diversity,’ they ignore the deeper infrastructure behind it — a network of mosques, PACs, nonprofit fronts, and activist pipelines engineered to transform America’s institutions from within.”

And as Asra Nomani concludes, with the Democrat Party as its vehicle, “the red-green alliance,” i.e. Islamism and socialism, “has transformed American politics. The party no longer resists this movement. It accelerates it ... candidates like Mamdani are only the beginning. A well-funded pipeline of red-green operatives now wears blue, ready to take over.”

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