New York Elects Muslim/Communist Mayor–and It’s Meaning for America
Despite being a prophetic person, I’ve whiffed on a few futuristic predictions in my life. But in 1989, in Leadership for the 21st Century, I accurately predicted the fall of the Iron Curtain (three years before it happened) and what religions would most likely rise to resist God’s work in the 21st century.
On November 4, 2025, New York voters elected Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year old communist and Muslim , to lead the our nation’s biggest city and financial capital of the world.
Mandami is a hybrid Muslim/Marxist. I had an inkling of that unusual “partnership” forty years ago.
Here’s what it means for America.
New York Elects a Pro-Muslim Communist Mayor–and It’s Meaning for America
There were many reasons for Mamdani’s election and also that of the Virginia and New Jersey gubernatorial races. They include low Republican turnout in blue state off-year races and the valid criticism that America has become unaffordable for many people–especially young families.
Of course, most of unaffordability came from progressive policies like over-regulation, open borders, and deficit spending. But the people keep electing Democrats.
The Bible is right when it laments,
“My people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge” (Hosea 4:6).
That includes the dumbing down of government-run schools (and woke higher education).
Following is an article about the forces that have united against God’s truth. It’s a very unlikely “marriage” that may be the heart of a new 21st century antichrist movement.
Zohran Mamdani: Will the Scorpion Sting Again?
by Ron Hale
Zohran Mamdani [has been voted] the next mayor of New York City and may well serve as poster child for an activist alignment that hates Western civilization. Radical hard-left groups and Islamists appear to be collaborating against Western nations, especially the USA.
As political Islamists strive to be elected to government office, then Islamicize their host culture through a time-tested systematic implementation of Sharia law, while the radical far-left presses for socialism, open borders, globalism, and equity for an ever-growing list. Their conjoined opposition to Western civilization with its capitalism and Judeo-Christian foundations unites their passion and peculiar partnership.
The Leftists [Marxist/Communists]
Why would leftists align themselves with a group having a history of throwing gays off tall buildings? The far left’s strategy cannot be one of thinking their radical Islamic friends will see their moral purity, leading to the rejection of Sharia law, jihad, and work toward Islamic reforms in America. Left-leaning historians understand that radical Islamists will never allow Allah’s perfect law to be reformed. Islam has a 1,400-year record of success in methodically spreading Sharia law within naïve nations.
Could the hard left be drunk on their vision as the smartest people in human history and too cunning to be caught in the constricting coils of Islamic rule and violence in the end? The fable of the Scorpion and the Frog is pregnant with relevance for today.
We simply cannot understand the contemporary culture war in America without understanding the invasive philosophy of cultural Marxism. This includes a cabal of constructs known as critical theory, multiculturalism, political correctness, intersectionality, identity politics, white privilege, critical race theory, etc.
Fleeing Hitler’s Germany before and after WWII, a group of German philosophers and educators planted the seeds of this ideology into our American university system. Men like Georg Lukacs, Herbert Marcuse, and Theodor Adorno, of the Frankfurt School in Germany, were trained to translate the ideology of Marxism from economic terms into practical cultural terms. This new revolution would not promote bullets, bombs, and bloodshed in the beginning, but look to smash religion (Christianity in particular), morals, authority, and American patriotism.
Marxist theorist Antonio Gramsci saw the 2,000-year impact of Christianity on the West and concluded that this de-Christianization would begin with a “long march” through the cultural structures of societies. Things like religion, family, media, and education must be turned upside down and radically transformed.
Politicians, professors, activists, and community organizers found power and social traction in organizing and promising each minority group certain rights, privileges, benefits, etc. They knew it would be a long road as cultural change worked its way through the institutions of government, education, corporations, sports, music, entertainment, and the Christian church.
In deconstructing America from a capitalist free market economy and Judeo-Christian moral foundation, the virtues and values that made America strong must be attacked, eroded, shamed and destroyed. The new storytellers of change must lift high the “oppressed” and decry the “oppressors.” Nagging new narratives must grate and goad, thus promoting change. Progressive theologians and liberal pastors must continue to blur the Bible, thereby adding to moral confusion. Universities must churn out revolutionaries and reactionaries — even those willing to use deception and violence. The willing media must help make “examples” of hypocrites, racists, homophobes, Islamophobes, etc. An undercurrent of fear prevents many patriotic, religious, and traditionally minded people from speaking out and standing up.
The Islamists
Just like Nazi ideology should not be allowed to coexist within a civilized society, radical Islamic ideology cannot coexist in our modern world. For it yearns to destroy the Jew, the infidel or Kafir (non-Muslim), the westerner, and even Muslims different from themselves. This group has a bent for blood, and they are very thirsty — remember 9/11?
Islam enters a nation as both a religion and a political movement. The Sharia shares a comprehensive strategy of immigration and how to slowly Islamicize the host society. Their first step is to make friends by announcing that Islam shares a history and is a brother religion to Judaism and Christianity. They look to build bridges with the media and find friends among Kafir (non-Muslim) leaders.
Sharia law, which is Islamic law, serves as the basis for demands that Muslims make on their host culture. When local schools are asked to give up a room for Islamic prayers or when hospitals are asked to treat Muslim women in special ways, these requests are used to implement Sharia law. As local governments give way to their demands, eventually you find Muslims commandeering London streets for Muslim holy prayers — thus we see Sharia law in full bloom.
Zohran Mamdani proposes to decriminalize all drugs, provide free bus service citywide, impose rent freezes, allow illegal aliens to vote and hold elected office, mandate universal childcare (age six weeks to five years), and institute city-owned grocery stores. His history of supporting Palestinian terrorist groups and repeated attacks on Israel are concerning for NYC.
Just as the fabled frog trusted the scorpion not to sting as it provided an Uber ride across the pond, New Yorkers trust Zohran with his good looks and smiles to get them to the promised land of prosperity. History will reveal the sting or bling of the Big Apple.
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Another insightful article caught my attention this week called “Anything but Christ: The Hidden Alliance Between Progressivism and Islam” by Eli Shepherd. It confirms Gale’s analysis.
Here’s what I said forty years ago in Leadership for the 21st Century:
As we near the 21st century, the battle lines are drawn. Three major religion-philosophies–Marxism [Communism], Islam, and Biblical Christianity are in mortal combat combat for supremacy on earth. A war is being waged for the hearts and minds of the billions who must choose. Everyone must choose…First we must understand there is battle. Next we must be committed to fighting it in the spirit and methods of our Servant King. And finally we must believe that we can win it through the power of Jesus.
Even against a two-header radical Muslim/communist monster.
Christus Victor.
