The Ben Shapiro Show - July 28, 2026


Will America Reject This Commie BS?


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00:00:00.000 Zorhan Mamdani has been asked by a bevy of 9 11 families not to attend the 9 11 memorial.
00:00:06.000 According to the New York Post, families of 9 11 victims are demanding that Mamdani be banned from the 25th anniversary of the attacks at Ground Zero, branding him an apologist for Islamic terror whose presence would be an insult to the memories of the nearly 3,000 people murdered.
00:00:19.000 Giovanni Galante, whose 29 year old wife, Grace Catherine Galante, was among the 2,977 innocents killed by Al Qaeda, said, quote, Our objection is based on his public record, his failure to meaningfully acknowledge the horror of that day, His employment of, support for, or association with the individuals who have minimized 9 11, defended terrorists, or even suggested that America deserved the attacks.
00:00:40.000 He is the organizer of a petition drive that has collected over 1,100 signatures, including from at least 300 victims' families.
00:00:47.000 And again, there are a bunch of reasons that are cited, including his palling around on the mayoral campaign with a man named Imam Siraj Wahaj, who is a notorious gay hating Brooklyn Imam who once urged followers to participate in gun free jihad and march through the city of New York.
00:01:03.000 He was an unindicted co conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
00:01:07.000 And here is a picture of Zorhan Mamdani with Siraj Wahaj.
00:01:13.000 Could he look happier?
00:01:14.000 Is it possible for him to look happier?
00:01:16.000 I don't think so.
00:01:17.000 Or how about Mamdani's appointment of Ramzi Qasem as the city's chief counsel?
00:01:22.000 Qasem defended Ahmed Al Darbi, an Al Qaeda terrorist who pled guilty in a 2002 plot to bomb a French oil tanker, and Mahmoud Khalil, the radical organizer of the anti Israel, pro Hamas tentafat at Columbia University.
00:01:36.000 The mayor endorsed a fellow Democratic Socialist of America named Abra Kawas for a state sentencing, even though she once described 9 11 as a terror attack that, quote, a couple of people did, and expressed sympathy for Ahmed Farhani, who pled guilty in 2012 to blowing up a Manhattan synagogue.
00:01:50.000 And of course, he endorsed Daria Lisa Chevalier and campaigned with her.
00:01:56.000 You'll remember.
00:01:57.000 I mean, here is Mamdani with Daria Lisa Chevalier.
00:02:02.000 And here's what Daria Lisa Chevalier tweeted about the American flag.
00:02:08.000 You'll recall that she tweeted, I forgot to get napkins, so I just wiped my hand on the American flag behind me.
00:02:15.000 He endorsed her and campaigned with her.
00:02:18.000 Or maybe it is his support for Claire Valdez, another congressional candidate, DSA congressional candidate, who he campaigned alongside.
00:02:25.000 Well, here she was talking about how ICE was spun up in the wake of 9 11 to terrorize our neighbors.
00:02:30.000 9 11 was basically just, you know, 9 11 was a thing that you used in order to push right wing nonsense.
00:02:40.000 This agency was spun up in the wake of 9 11 to surveil and terrorize our neighbors.
00:02:45.000 We can imagine a world beyond ice.
00:02:48.000 This is not that radical.
00:02:51.000 And we should stop spending billions and billions of dollars tearing our communities apart and really making all of us less safe.
00:02:59.000 Or maybe it's, you know, Zoran Manzani with Hassan Piker.
00:03:03.000 He campaigned with Hassan Piker.
00:03:05.000 Hassan Piker was at his victory party.
00:03:07.000 Zoran Manzani.
00:03:09.000 There they are, you know, besties.
00:03:12.000 There they are, the Mutt and Jeff.
00:03:14.000 Of radical anti Americanism.
00:03:16.000 And of course, as we all know, because we've played it multiple times, Hassan Piker fully believes that America deserved 9 11.
00:03:24.000 This is so insane.
00:03:27.000 America deserved 9 11, dude.
00:03:30.000 I'm saying it.
00:03:32.000 And of course, like a week and a half ago, he decided he would display behind him in his studio a headline about the World Trade Center being destroyed from 9 12.
00:03:43.000 Oh, you might have noticed something, some changes behind me.
00:03:48.000 I finally framed the Cutie Cinderella newspaper from 9 11, the morning of 9 12, the newspaper right there, the newspaper that covered 9 11.
00:04:01.000 It's now officially sitting behind me, and I moved the North Korean poster up in place of the fan art.
00:04:13.000 Okay, again, Zar Mamdani is that guy.
00:04:16.000 Zar Mamdani is these people.
00:04:18.000 And then.
00:04:19.000 The 9 11 family said, We don't want you here.
00:04:20.000 And he said, No, no, I'm going to show up anyway.
00:04:23.000 What'd you get?
00:04:24.000 For 9 11 families, got to say, it's probably the same for families of people, Jews in New York who are being targeted by Zoran Momdani's followers when he issues his anodyne statements about how violence has no place in New York City.
00:04:37.000 Here's Zoran Momdani again at that Smarmy Bane face on.
00:04:43.000 A number of people who are survivors of 9 11 are calling on you not to go to 9 11 memorial services.
00:04:50.000 I wonder how you feel about the fact that they're trying to keep you away.
00:04:54.000 I will proudly honor the families, the survivors, the first responders, forever impacted by that horrific terror attack, by standing alongside them at this year's 9 11 commemoration, reaffirming that we will never forget the solemn day felt by all of us who call this city home and, frankly, by all of us who call this country home.
00:05:18.000 Ridiculous.
00:05:19.000 Okay, so here's the thing New York City is an object lesson.
00:05:19.000 Ridiculous.
00:05:22.000 When Western civilization decides the real threat is not our enemies, it's us.
00:05:25.000 When we decide that Islamophobia is the problem, not radical Islam.
00:05:30.000 When we decide to open our doors to people who hate us and then teach our kids that we're the bad guys, it turns out the barbarians take over and they wear slick suits and they smile smarmy smiles and they repeat platitudes about how they love America.
00:05:41.000 But meanwhile, they say we need to end America as we know it in every single way.
00:05:45.000 Again, this is a long time coming.
00:05:48.000 The seeds for this kind of stuff were actually sown by all the good hearted people in the aftermath of 2001's 9 11 attacks.
00:05:57.000 George W. Bush immediately at the Islamic Center of Washington insisting that Islam is a religion of peace.
00:06:02.000 Remember this, right after 9 11.
00:06:05.000 Remember this.
00:06:06.000 Setting up the narrative that would be used for the next couple of decades by groups like the Council on American Islamic Relations, a group with unindicted co conspirator links to the Holy Land Foundation's terror trial, with roots going back to groups associated with Hamas, using Islamophobia as their rallying cry.
00:06:25.000 There was George W. Bush back in 2001, a signal error by the president.
00:06:30.000 These acts and violence against innocents violate the fundamental tenets of the Islamic faith.
00:06:41.000 And it's important for my fellow Americans to understand that.
00:06:46.000 The English translation is not as eloquent as the original Arabic, but let me quote from the Quran itself.
00:06:53.000 In the long run, evil in the extreme will be the end of those who do evil.
00:07:04.000 For that they rejected the signs of Allah and held them up to ridicule.
00:07:12.000 The face of terror is not the true face of Islam.
00:07:19.000 Okay, now again, this is this idea that he had to stand up for Islam broad writ led to this nonsense that the real problem in the post 9 11 era was Islamophobia, which of course is something that Zoramam Dhani constantly says.
00:07:34.000 The problem was not 9 11.
00:07:35.000 9 11 was not a reflection of Islam in any way or even radical Islam in any way.
00:07:38.000 It was just some crazy people who did some crazy stuff.
00:07:41.000 Some people did some things, as Ilhan Omar has said.
00:07:43.000 You know, when she's not writing letters of support to people trying to join ISIS.
00:07:47.000 The real problem in America is that America was the problem.
00:07:49.000 The real problem is that America was Islamophobic.
00:07:51.000 Here is Zoramandani back during the campaign.
00:07:54.000 I want to use this moment to speak to the Muslims of New York City.
00:08:07.000 I want to speak to the memory of my aunt.
00:08:15.000 Who stopped taking the subway after September 11th because she did not feel safe in her hijab?
00:08:22.000 I mean, that was the message.
00:08:24.000 Okay, and it turns out that if you preach over and over for decades that America is inherently Islamophobic, that the true danger of the 9 11 and post 9 11 era is not radical Islam, which, you know, that's just a fringe thing, just a few people.
00:08:37.000 The real problem is widespread American bigotry and Western bigotry.
00:08:40.000 You're going to end up doing two things at once.
00:08:42.000 First, you will ignore the true problem of radical Islam and its extent.
00:08:45.000 Which is pretty extreme.
00:08:47.000 And second, you will teach your kids that they and their parents are intolerant bigots if they oppose, say, more mass immigration or question the precepts of the people who preach radical Islam.
00:08:57.000 The columnist Christopher Hitchens had it right back in 2009.
00:09:02.000 Resist it while you still can and before the right to complain is taken away from you, which will be the next thing.
00:09:08.000 You will be told you can't complain because you're Islamophobic.
00:09:14.000 The term is already being introduced into the culture as if it was an accusation of race hatred.
00:09:20.000 For example, or bigotry, whereas it's only the objection to the preachings of a very extreme and absolutist religion.
00:09:26.000 Watch out for these symptoms.
00:09:28.000 They are just symptoms of surrender, very often ecumenically offered to you by men of God in other robes, Christian and Jewish and smarmy ecumenical.
00:09:37.000 These are the ones who will hold open the gates for the barbarians.
00:09:41.000 The barbarians never take a city till someone holds the gates open for them.
00:09:46.000 And it's your own preachers who will do it for you and your own multicultural authorities who will do it for you.
00:09:52.000 Resist it while you.
00:09:57.000 He was not wrong.
00:09:58.000 And now London, of course, has been taken over.
00:10:01.000 So, how much of a problem is radical Islam?
00:10:02.000 The answer is a pretty large scale problem.
00:10:05.000 Now, again, this doesn't mean that all Muslims or even the vast majority of Muslims are violent and radical.
00:10:11.000 But according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the UN Security Council and the US State Department, there are about 300,000 actively armed militant members of terrorist groups like ISIS, Al Qaeda, or Hamas.
00:10:21.000 As many as 150 million Muslims express passive support or favorable views toward terrorist groups.
00:10:27.000 And their violent tactics in Pew polling.
00:10:30.000 Hundreds of millions of Muslims, according to Pew, support Sharia law as governing law.
00:10:34.000 Now, American Muslims are less radical than their international compatriots, but even among American Muslims, according to a Pew poll published two months ago, 44% expressed sympathy for the terrorist group Hamas.
00:10:44.000 So, yes, it turns out that radical Islam is a problem.
00:10:48.000 And it's not a minor problem.
00:10:48.000 It is.
00:10:51.000 Go back to February.
00:10:51.000 Nzor Mamdani literally spoke at a mosque that, at its services, called for the killing of infidels.
00:10:56.000 This would be at the Al Khoi Islamic Center in Queens.
00:11:01.000 As the first Muslim mayor in our city's history, and this year as the first Jummah that I have attended in that new position, and to do so together, it is a reminder that in this month of Ramadan, as we find moments of reflection, of recommitment, moments of community, that we always do so together.
00:11:25.000 And it is together that I am thankful to be here today, and I'm thankful to have the opportunity to lead our city.
00:11:32.000 The person is saying, Through your hands comes the relief for the believers and the killing of the infidels by your sword.
00:11:42.000 Again, the religion of peace has some rather non-peaceful aspects, as people in Berlin, Paris, and New York have learned over the course of the last couple of weeks alone.
00:11:50.000 So, what did our obsession in the United States with preventing Islamophobia accomplish?
00:11:55.000 Well, in 2001, there were about 600,000 Muslims living in the New York City metro area.
00:11:59.000 Today, there are 1.5 million.
00:12:01.000 In 2001, there were somewhere between 85 and 120 mosques in the New York City area.
00:12:05.000 Today, there are more than 300.
00:12:08.000 The Muslim population of the overall New York City metro area was in the 3% to 4% range as of 2000.
00:12:14.000 Today, it's 10% of New York City.
00:12:17.000 Pew Research indicates that over 25% of all Muslim immigrants in the Northeast of the United States arrived after 2000, primarily from South Asia, West Africa, and the Middle East.
00:12:26.000 And the Muslim population of the United States skews much younger than the general population.
00:12:31.000 26% of American Muslims are aged 18 to 24, as opposed to 12% of the general population.
00:12:37.000 So that means that Muslims are about three times more likely to be current college or university students when compared to, say, Christians or Jews in New York.
00:12:46.000 So, we imported people who are disproportionately sympathetic to the anti Americanism of Zorhan Mamdani and his allies, more so than with the 9 11 victims and their families.
00:12:55.000 But importation isn't the only problem, obviously.
00:12:58.000 We also decided this is the undercurrent of the Islamophobia thing that America is bad.
00:13:05.000 We decided that we were going to teach our kids that America is bad.
00:13:08.000 Remember just a couple of years ago, there was this entire TikTok trend of kids reading the Osama bin Laden 9 11 letter and deciding he was right.
00:13:15.000 That's because we taught them that.
00:13:17.000 Take, for example, just one example.
00:13:19.000 The Herbert Lehman professor of government and a professor of anthropology, political science, and African studies at Columbia.
00:13:25.000 His name is Mahmoud Mamdani.
00:13:26.000 And yes, he is Zarn Mamdani's father.
00:13:29.000 In his 2004 book, Good Muslim, Bad Muslim, Mamdani, quote, dispels the idea of good, say secularized and westernized, and bad pre-modern fanatical Muslims.
00:13:38.000 Instead, he argues that political Islam emerged as a result of a modern encounter with Western power, and that the terrorist movement at the center of Islamist politics is an even more recent phenomenon, one that followed America's embrace of proxy war after its defeat in Vietnam.
00:13:52.000 So, again, the idea is that America caused Islamic terrorism.
00:13:54.000 There was no such thing until America, which is weird since Islamic terrorism goes all the way back to the Quran.
00:13:59.000 One of the most infamous quotes from the book Suicide bombing needs to be understood as a feature of modern political violence rather than stigmatized as a mark of barbarism.
00:14:08.000 We need to recognize the suicide bomber first and foremost as a category of soldier.
00:14:13.000 Here was Professor Mahmoud, again, he's teaching your kids at Columbia, talking about America as the settler colonialist state.
00:14:23.000 A Christian nation state decides to cleanse it of all religious minorities, Jews and Muslims in particular, and at the same time launches a colonization experiment the discovery of the Americas.
00:14:44.000 America is the genesis of what we call settler colonialism, and the American model was exported all around the world.
00:14:57.000 The American model was settler colonialism, right?
00:15:00.000 Again, if you wonder if this has any impact on his students, how about the impact that it had on his son?
00:15:05.000 Here is Zorn Momdani talking about his father's worldview.
00:15:10.000 And my father also taught me so often when you're growing up as a minority in a place, you can grow up also with a sense of almost a chip on your shoulder.
00:15:22.000 With it also comes the ability to see the truth of a place in its entirety, the promise of it, and that which still needs to be worked on.
00:15:30.000 And that was in such a way so freeing to hear as a young person to understand my place in the world and the responsibility that I had within it and the fact that it was a gift, not a burden.
00:15:43.000 The place in the world was to imitate the beliefs of his fathers and to mainstream them.
00:15:47.000 And we imported his dad, we imported his mom.
00:15:53.000 Again, this is what America did to itself.
00:15:55.000 And again, it's not just New York.
00:15:58.000 It's not just New York.
00:15:58.000 This is how you end up with an America hating mayor spitting in the face of the 9 11 family victims, but it's not just New York.
00:16:03.000 This is going to go national.
00:16:04.000 It already has.
00:16:06.000 There is literally a New Jersey congressional candidate running for the Democratic Party who acted as a spokesperson for Al Qaeda.
00:16:13.000 Okay?
00:16:14.000 That is a real thing.
00:16:15.000 Meanwhile, in Michigan, there's an ongoing pitched battle for the Michigan Senate Democratic seat between Haley Stevens, who's sort of a normie left wing Democrat.
00:16:25.000 She's very left wing, but she's.
00:16:26.000 In the realm of Normie and Abdul El Sayed, a terrorist supporter.
00:16:31.000 Well, he recently said, according to Politico If I win, well, y'all came at me, so now I get to come at you.
00:16:38.000 And you know, primary people like John Fetterman, I have no problem to do that.
00:16:41.000 Ideally, you put one ogre on a pike and then everyone else gets the message.
00:16:45.000 And all of a sudden, it starts to sound a lot different.
00:16:48.000 I pick being Senator Shrek over being the Pontiac Platner any day, said Fetterman in response.
00:16:55.000 Because again, Fetterman is the only person with a working brain inside the Democratic coalition.
00:17:00.000 By the way, hilariously, El Sayed's 2026 financial disclosure reveals that his wife is a landlord in Dubai.
00:17:08.000 Also, they own a rental property in Bangalore, India.
00:17:13.000 What was El Sayed's defense?
00:17:14.000 His defense was that it is racist to point out his foreign properties.
00:17:20.000 People are going to pay attention to just properties that literally my wife's family inherited and then put in their and all of their kids' names and then sold.
00:17:32.000 And people out here being like, oh, well, and I wonder why they're so focused on foreign properties with somebody with a name like mine.
00:17:41.000 Oh, it's racism, Islamophobia, you might say, to notice things.
00:17:46.000 And it turns out, of course, Abdul El Sayed has an explanation, as it turns out, for everything bad happening in the United States.
00:17:53.000 And the answer is wait for it.
00:17:54.000 You're not going to believe it.
00:17:55.000 You're going to believe it.
00:17:56.000 It's AIPAC, of course.
00:18:00.000 Dr. El Sayed, what are you doing?
00:18:02.000 That's something that perhaps we haven't heard before in Washington that's different to keep the cost of living down.
00:18:07.000 So let me just tell you for me, it's I don't take money from the corporations who are jacking up your prices in the first place when you're bought off by DTE and Blue Cross and Big Pharma and Big Tech and AIPAC.
00:18:21.000 It was AIPAC that's the reason prices are going up.
00:18:24.000 Again, what can't he blame the Jews for?
00:18:26.000 Pretty incredible stuff.
00:18:28.000 And again, it's not just El Sayed.
00:18:30.000 It is the Democratic Party that has decided to mimic this nonsense wholesale.
00:18:34.000 Here's James Tallarico announcing that he has learned as much from Islam as he has from Christianity, which is a hell of a take.
00:18:41.000 I know personally that I've learned as much about my faith from Salman's tradition, from the Islamic mystics, from poets like Rumi, as much as I have from Christian authors and Christian writers.
00:19:00.000 Now, listen, I'd be remiss if I didn't note that the Horseshoe Wright has also taken up the gauntlet here since they too wish to burn down America because they believe that it is.
00:19:08.000 Corrupt and evil and terrible.
00:19:09.000 And they've been spending an awful lot of time expressing sympathy for radical Islam these days.
00:19:13.000 Here's Candace Owens doing just that.
00:19:17.000 Americans don't know anything.
00:19:18.000 We know very well after 9 11.
00:19:20.000 I think about it now, the propaganda to make me afraid of Muslims.
00:19:24.000 I can't even imagine being a Muslim growing up after 9 11 in America because I know how I felt about them.
00:19:29.000 I was young, I was 11 years old.
00:19:31.000 But that beating every day in our heads that every Muslim was a terrorist was the idea that you got to all Muslims growing up during that time in America.
00:19:38.000 I am sorry on behalf of America for the way that you were treated.
00:19:42.000 It is so unacceptable.
00:19:43.000 When I go back and I re examine that propaganda, that brainwashing that took place in the classroom to make me scared of something I didn't even know what a Muslim was.
00:19:53.000 Tucker Carlson, too, spending his days running interference for Islam over and over and over.
00:19:59.000 For whatever it's worth, a pretty fervent Christian, and I feel completely comfortable here in the seat of Islam.
00:20:07.000 If you have a society in which people bow down before God five times a day, I'm not against that.
00:20:16.000 I should bow down before God five times a day.
00:20:20.000 And I wish I lived around people who bowed down before God five times a day.
00:20:25.000 But you go to the Gulf, and it's incredible to be in a place that has pride in itself, that believes in its religion and culture, that thinks we're onto something.
00:20:34.000 This is great.
00:20:35.000 Look at what we're doing.
00:20:36.000 We're really proud of this.
00:20:37.000 Those people are happy.
00:20:39.000 They're welcoming of others.
00:20:41.000 They're tolerant of diversity.
00:20:43.000 They're into things that I'm not into, like, I don't know, polygamy or Islam.
00:20:47.000 And I can sort of look at it and be like, no one's forcing this on me.
00:20:50.000 I'm not mad at you for being a polygamist.
00:20:54.000 Yes, Islam, famous for not forcing things on people.
00:20:58.000 Again, this is the demoralization operation is very real on the right, but it links hands with the decades long attempt to paint America as the bad guy on planet Earth.
00:21:09.000 And the result is a person like Zarnamdani as mayor of New York.
00:21:13.000 Meanwhile, again, we'll see whether the weakened Democrats can come up with any opposition to this at all.
00:21:17.000 It'll be interesting to see what happens in the Michigan Senate race.
00:21:21.000 Haley Stevens, again, is running against El Sayed, and she is trying desperately to sort of play the old playbook.
00:21:27.000 And we'll see whether it works or not.
00:21:28.000 Here she was in her debate with El Sayed last night.
00:21:32.000 A lot of you remember Abdul from when he first ran for governor in 2018.
00:21:37.000 It didn't work out.
00:21:38.000 So he started the podcast, he wrote the books, and now he's running for Senate.
00:21:43.000 And he's already bought the website for president.
00:21:47.000 You know, it's just another rung on the ladder.
00:21:50.000 That's not what this job is for me.
00:21:52.000 That's not why I'm putting up my hand in this moment.
00:21:55.000 It's not about celebrity.
00:21:56.000 This is about making sure that Mike Rogers doesn't get anywhere close to this seat.
00:22:03.000 I'm the only one on this stage.
00:22:05.000 Who has beat MAGA four times and delivered repeatedly for this state and for our values, for our rights and our freedoms?
00:22:15.000 Again, we'll see whether this works out for her, but the traditional Democratic Party is in serious, serious trouble.
00:22:19.000 Now, speaking of the horseshoe, what an amazing video you just watched.
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