Zoran Mamdani is the leading candidate in the Democratic primary for New York City s next mayor, and he's running against two other Muslims: Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa. In this episode, we get access to some exclusive footage from the campaign trail.
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00:03:13.000We are a fortnight out from uh the New York City mayoral election.
00:03:17.000That's two weeks for those who aren't familiar.
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00:03:23.000Um the leading candidate right now is I'm not going to mince words, um, an Islamic communist.
00:03:30.000So Zoran Mamdani uh is obviously uh right now leading both Andrew Cuomo and as of uh the time of of broadcasting this, the Republican candidate uh Curtis Sleewa Sliwa.
00:04:37.000it's minnesota minneapolis Governor Greg Abbott directed Texas Rangers to open a criminal investigation into the group behind a Muslim-centric housing development in Collin County.
00:04:53.000intent is to put Islam at the forefront of the project.
00:06:21.000Now, if you look at the United States and and uh you kind of look at our trajectory, first off, you have to ask yourself do we we want this country to be like the UK?
00:06:30.000Do we think it's yielded good results?
00:06:33.000Or at the very least, better results or worse results?
00:06:37.000Which do you want for the United States?
00:06:39.000Now we look at the population gain of U.S. Muslims.
00:06:42.000So in 2007, there were about uh 2.3 million Muslims, and as of 2020, which is the latest figure, 4.5 million.
00:06:55.000Uh that in and of itself, maybe you're maybe you have no problem with.
00:07:00.000Now, this has um had some downstream effects, including over 200 Muslims elected in the United States, including four members of Congress, 46 state legislators, and uh 184 local officials.
00:07:14.000Now, New York City is on the verge of electing a Muslim socialist or communist, depending on who he's talking to, to its highest position.
00:07:26.00033-year-old Democratic Socialist and New York Assembly member Zoram Mamdani taking a clear lead endorsed by Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasia Cortez, Mamdani's success signals a potential ideological and generational shift within the party.
00:07:43.000The state lawmaker now seeks to become the city's first Muslim and Indian American mayor.
00:07:47.000Andani was born in Uganda to Indian parents and became an American citizen in 2018, shortly after graduating college.
00:07:53.000Corporations don't want to pay just a little bit more in taxes to make a better city for all of us.
00:08:03.000My platform of a rent-freeze, fast and free buses, universal child care funded by Texas on the rich, could be the difference between you having to move to Jersey City and getting to stay in the five boroughs.
00:08:12.000I think about the words of Prophet Muhammad.
00:08:14.000Sulallah being Busan, who instructed us to make things easier, do not make them more difficult.
00:08:20.000And I will tell you that I am proud to be a Muslim candidate running for me.
00:08:28.000An opportunity for us to show that Muslims don't just belong in New York City, we also belong in City Hall.
00:08:42.000And yet we know that for many that hunger will continue.
00:08:46.000And I stand before you as one of a million Muslims who call New York City their home.
00:08:52.000We have 200,000 of us registered as Democrats.
00:08:56.000Also, side note, my primary problem, aside from the grooming of children with the uh the drag queen performances is Oh my god, are they lazy?
00:09:27.000Now, this is not something unique, but um, but I will say that uh it's it's quite it's quite a bit more severe in this case.
00:09:34.000Mamdani is absolutely playing up his religious affiliation to make sure he secures that demographic in a way politically that really hasn't been done before.
00:09:43.000And uh that brings us to uh Robert Ackle.
00:09:47.000This is a man who's a progressive political consultant, has been for 14 years.
00:09:51.000He's worked for people like AOC, Jamal Bowman, and currently he is the citywide canvas director for Mamdani's campaign.
00:09:58.000Our Mug Club Undercover reporter sat with Robert, who um was pretty transparent uh and revealed how uh Mamdani is going to specifically use Islam to win the mayoral election in New York City.
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00:11:57.000I I just want to make sure I heard him correctly there.
00:12:00.000Because some of the stuff that we're gonna hear today is is stuff that maybe we've thought or we've we've we've assumed was going on, but actually getting the words in the mouth of somebody that high up in a campaign right now is a little bit different.
00:12:11.000Nobody has spoken to their values, they're Democrats.
00:12:15.000Certainly they've been kind of pitched the Democrat pitch forever.
00:12:36.000Yeah, it wouldn't be the more traditional values that Muslims hold, you know, conservative socially, it would be their anti-American views that they think they can bring guns.
00:12:48.000Often yes, but in this case, have we seen this play out to reflect what he's saying before?
00:12:57.000Have we kind of seen how have we we have we watched how this story I don't want to say ends, but we're kind of at the midpoint, the second act in some places uh in the world right now.
00:14:04.000And I I want to take a second here, uh, just to sort of cut off at the past people saying, well, we're a we're a nation of immigrants.
00:14:10.000We're built on immigrants, we're all immigrants.
00:14:12.000Um let's look at different waves of immigrants in this country.
00:14:16.000Uh for example, if you look at the French, if you look at uh, you know, you look at the British, obviously, you look at one point, the Irish, the Italians.
00:14:29.000Think of it as state borders versus national borders.
00:14:32.000Sure, Texas and Oklahoma will give each other crap all the time, but it's very different from, for example, Mexico.
00:14:38.000Irish, Italian American, British American, Polish American, German American.
00:14:44.000It's very different from um a group of people, largely because of their religion, uh, who harbor antithetical views to American values, to Western values.
00:14:59.000And so then we have to ask ourselves the question.
00:15:02.000Um you've heard the term uh when in uh when uh is it an unstoppable force meets an immovable object?
00:15:09.000Let's just use that analogy, Western civilization, immovable object, although it's really not unstoppable force, Islam.
00:15:17.000Because Islam prescribes its followers, and not everyone follows it, I understand it, but hundreds of millions of Muslims across this globe do.
00:15:26.000Um they are prescribed, called to destroy the figurative walls that make up Western civilization.
00:15:34.000That's actually a requirement of them to be faithful to their religion.
00:15:38.000So the question is has England made Sadiq Khan more Western, or did Sadiq make London more Islamic.
00:17:22.000And you know, uh if you're a patriotic American who really likes what makes this country unique, um, you would share some common ground with uh President Trump.
00:18:32.000You could look at the Quran as a law book in many instances and put it side by side with the Constitution and understand that they are irreconcilable.
00:18:51.000And by the way, they have different standards for divorce.
00:18:53.000They have different standards for enforcing local crime, which often happens in these communities.
00:18:57.000They go to these courts where you have women who just completely lose access to their children because a guy says the right thing three times.
00:19:40.000So this brings us to the manipulation.
00:19:43.000Um a pretty important, a central tactic of many Islamic politicians, um, apparently Mamdani included, is utilizing the Islamic leadership to I don't want to say influence, I want to say pressure.
00:20:37.000And and these types of tactics, by the way, they should shouldn't really surprise anyone if you've paid uh attention to politics, and certainly if you've paid attention to England.
00:20:47.000Um, former Tower Hamlet's mayor Luftar Rahman, he uh during his election cycle, um well, vo he told voters that it was their religious duty to vote for Raman, right?
00:21:09.000Now that combined with the idea of ignore international law, ignore the laws of the lands, ignore um what they tell you, and and follow our laws.
00:21:25.000People who who who did that when we say we're a nation of immigrants, Irish Americans coming in, Italian Americans coming in, German Americans po uh coming in, Polish Americans coming in, British Americans coming in.
00:21:37.000I mean, maybe they had their own, you know, sections and their own little burrows and ghettos and neighborhoods, but uh uh again, that's 150, 200 years ago.
00:23:18.000So I think that's very important to understand that's one of the reasons that we don't want uh, you know, big donors or anything like that funding these programs, because then you're beholden.
00:23:25.000Well, it's fine if you're beholden to people who are Americans who want American values, the Republicans or Democrats, or maybe they have slightly different opinions about stuff.
00:23:32.000It's not fine if you're beholden to a group of people that fundamentally don't want Western values, period.
00:24:05.000And I don't mean countries where there are there are significant Islamic populations, countries that were under Islamic law rule, or where the population got to be, a majority of the country.
00:24:38.000Uh, Pakistan or I mean Saudi Arabia, take your pick.
00:24:43.000Is that system, that rule of law and that culture better or worse than Western civilization?
00:24:52.000It doesn't have to be necessarily good or bad, better or worse.
00:24:58.000And understand that that's a decision that we are going to be facing as a country.
00:25:02.000In an earlier interview here uh at this studio, uh, GB News' uh Patrick uh Patrick Christie's, I believe, broke down how this procedure kind of works in practice.
00:25:13.000And what happens there is that there are huge numbers of the local Muslim population who feel compelled to vote for those people because there is a lot of community pressure, there is a lot of religious pressure there, there is a loss of cultural pressure there that you have to.
00:25:27.000If you don't vote, if you don't vote for that person who is pro-Gaza, then you're uh you're a genocide enabler.
00:25:36.000I think many of them will come under a huge amount of pressure in order to vote for whatever candidate is backed by the local imam or the community elders or the community leaders.
00:25:50.000And then before you know it, you have got the religion of Islam seriously impacting British politics.
00:25:58.000And that brings us to kind of the next chapter here.
00:26:01.000And I know that this is often confusing to people, uh, about as confusing as Rashida Taleb having uh an LGBTQ AIP flag right next to uh Palestine or Hamas.
00:26:12.000Um but you have to understand that today's left is uh completely devoid of values.
00:26:18.000Um for people out there who are conservative, right-leaning, or even you know, or a libertarian, uh it's predicated on some semblance of truth that matters to you.
00:26:27.000We tend to revile dishonesty, uh, scams, schemes.
00:26:31.000That's not really the same for today's left, and you understand that if you have looked through their history, it's it's it's really a a win at all costs strategy.
00:26:42.000So I'm not even saying that socialists, communists, uh, the progressive left today, that they actually have compassion or um share a lot with uh Muslims.
00:26:53.000They see Islam as a useful tool in slowly eroding Western civilization.
00:27:00.000So that brings us this kind of unholy alliance that confuses people, but that's Islam and socialism.
00:27:05.000And there was a post circulating on X recently.
00:27:08.000Um caught our eye here from a member of the American Communist Party.
00:28:15.000The claims that the religion of Islam makes regarding Jesus are blasphemous enough that if you made them about Islam, your death would be prescribed.
00:28:27.000So in other words, if another let's look at the timeline.
00:28:41.000Now, if there was a chapter four and someone said, Yeah, yeah, no, no, we respect the Old Testament, the New Testament, Jesus Muhammad is a prophet.
00:28:48.000And here's another prophet who just says that, yeah, Muhammad actually um wasn't uh the holiest of prophets.
00:28:54.000He was a prophet, but he was wrong about a lot.
00:28:56.000And let me tell you how the Quran lies to you.
00:28:59.000Well, that's one step, well, I'd say quite a few steps further than simply drawing a flattering portrait of Muhammad.
00:29:06.000So if anyone treated Islam the same way that Islam treats Christianity, it would be an immediate call to death, supported by at least 150 million Muslims, according to recent polls worldwide.
00:33:32.000Let me take this excerpt for you from the international socialists.
00:33:36.000They write, a feature of Islamism, like pan-Arab nationalism, is it's cross-class alliances trying to control the capitalist state rather than working class organizations trying to overthrow it.
00:33:50.000Or this excerpt from an Anglican uh priest.
00:34:00.000Some show some socialists will never understand the God bit, but for those of us who believe that socialism requires a religious underpinning in order to flourish, Islam feels like the future of anti-capitalism.
00:34:12.000So it makes perfect sense when you see that Mamdani is combining Islam with socialism as a powerful tool in his bid for mayor.
00:36:04.000You had Jane Fonda, you had Oliver Stone, you had Bob Dylan's Susan Rotolo, uh, his first girlfriend was a noted activist, going out there praising Castro, praising communism, saying, see, Cuba is actually an example of successful communism.
00:36:29.000Do you want to go back to Russia where Bernie Sanders honeymooned, communist China, with Anita Dunn saying that Mao was a great inspiration along with Hollywood elites?
00:36:40.000You can go through every single communist regime and find the current leftists, the current liberals of that day praising it as the true example of successful communism until it wasn't.
00:37:08.000Uh, even at the Prime Minister of Denmark, say, I wish that Bernie Sanders would shut up or not the socialist.
00:37:14.000Let me let me point one other thing out that he said towards the end there.
00:37:16.000And I thought this really stood out to me about the you know the DSA, and there's a hundred more like us, but he said these these guys are gonna take over the country.
00:38:26.000And I'm choosing my words carefully, but you'll see this next video and understand that I mean it.
00:38:32.000What better way to do that than to instigate and orchestrate an armed standoff?
00:38:41.000Here, you have Robert Ackle detailing to our mug club undercover journalists how Mamdani plans to handle President Trump's immigration enforcement, which is a legitimate role of the federal government, and just really pay attention to what you're hearing.
00:38:58.000What did the uh police think about Zahra?
00:39:00.000Because I know that's like a little content contentious.
00:40:51.000That is what they want, and they want to be able to point to those enforcing the law, those trying to preserve Western civilization as fascists.
00:41:02.000They're the fascists doing their job deporting people who committed a crime getting here.
00:41:07.000Not us who perverted, who subverted, who exploited our local police force and put them in death's way, demanding that they prevent ICE from doing their job.
00:41:23.000They literally would have blood on their hands.
00:41:25.000You you understand that's as bad as it gets.
00:41:29.000That's as perverse as it gets for a government official.
00:41:33.000A willingness to use local armed forces to enforce your opinion, which flagrantly flies in the face of federal law, that's how much they want to destabilize the West, and they will blame you for their actions.
00:41:50.000Which is crazy, because I can't believe that the city who unif the biggest city in America unified after Muslims attacked it twenty four years ago, are now going to vote for a Muslim mayor who's gonna tell those police officers to shut up, sit down, you don't have an opinion.
00:42:22.000At what point are you looking at a depleted NYPD because they'd rather get out of the city?
00:42:28.000There's there's plenty of them that uh that are already tenure, or what I don't know if the word is for a police officer union, but uh there's already guys that can retire.
00:42:43.000And then they tell you to be afraid of some militiamen out in the hills of West Virginia.
00:42:47.000Well, then they blame the the federal government, but we've got we've got this kind of playing out right now in cities across America, like I said, but it's Democrats.
00:42:54.000It's people who maybe are socialists undercover.
00:42:56.000This guy's flat out in public, I'm a socialist and it doesn't matter, and Muslim.
00:43:02.000That's a different cocktail than what we've seen before.
00:43:05.000And look at the results that we've seen already in Chicago and Portland and Los Angeles and places like that.
00:43:10.000We don't have any idea what we're gonna see as this stuff continues to ramp up, but you've now got somebody who's on a different playbook.
00:43:16.000Right that wants the destruction of the West.
00:43:19.000And what better way to do that than to have conflict and violence because the federal government, see that big bad federal government you need to get rid of?
00:43:31.000We're trying to give you free bus rides and free groceries and uh make sure that you guys don't have to pay any reasonable rent at all for the apartments that you live in, and don't worry the rich people will pay for it.
00:43:41.000Like this is just a different mentality.
00:43:43.000And how far are we away from you know that American flag you've got up there?
00:44:13.000I guess these socialists, you know, the atheist socialists in this country who say, Oh, we actually have a lot in common.
00:44:19.000It's the old famous line, you you you promised you'd kill me last, right?
00:44:24.000When it's an authoritarian, when it is a totalitarian viewpoint, in all or nothing, a zero-sum game, as it is with Islam.
00:44:30.000Everyone either converts, dies, or is subjugated.
00:44:35.000And there's, by the way, a prescription of laws for those who don't convert but are allowed to live amongst you, and what that looks like with a poll tax, what that looks like with dimitude and curfews and check-ins and no fundamental human rights whatsoever.
00:44:49.000It doesn't mean that it's practiced everywhere.
00:45:40.000And if uh I will say if that 90% is correct, um, and this comes to fruition, I've got to imagine that New York City will be looking at some drastic changes, and you guys are in for a hell of a ride.
00:45:54.000And I think, look, you have different viewpoints on this, with people saying we have to do whatever we can to stop this man from being mayor because it'll destroy a once great American city.
00:46:04.000And there are some people who say, you know what, they deserve what they get.
00:46:08.000Um I'm more of the latter at this point.
00:46:11.000I I think that if someone is so far gone or a group of people to elect someone like this, I think there's value in lines in delineation.
00:46:21.000Um I've talked about this when when having debates or conversations, it's far easier for me to have a conversation with someone who says, no, I completely disagree with you, and let me tell you why, as opposed to someone who says, No, no, no, I'm I'm a moderate and I think we have a lot in common, and they try and sneak some stuff in and frame you in a way that's disingenuous.
00:46:40.000I think there's some value in saying, well, no, this is a socialist Islamic sympathizing mayor.
00:47:22.000Um, if if if that's what comes to be here.
00:47:24.000And I I again I really want you to ask yourself if you live in New York, um, or if you're watching this, and maybe you're not necessarily up to speed on on sort of the history of Islam and how they've influenced the West, particularly in the UK and in certain areas like Dearborn or Minneapolis here in the United States.
00:47:43.000You don't just have to go to um terrorism are the most extreme examples, though it is a valid one, because you are talking about hundreds of millions of Muslims across the globe who believe that violence against apostates, infidels is at least somewhat justified.
00:49:19.000Everything I've just said is accurate.
00:49:21.000But the scariest part is there are enough people in New York City who would ask themselves that very sequence of questions and line up with the opposite answer than you did on all of them.
00:49:39.000And that's enough proportion of New York City that may elect the next mayor.
00:49:44.000Got to keep that from coming to other cities.
00:49:47.000And a special thanks, of course, to our Mug Club Undercover journalists who've been working on this for quite a long time.
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