The Canary in the Coal Mine: Zohran Mamdani and his Push for Theocratic Socialism across America

What Does Sharia Law in the West Look Like? Just Take a Gander Across the Pond and Zohran Mamdani Push for Theocratic Socialism across America.

Once upon a time, coal miners took canaries into coal mines because the birds are susceptible to toxic gases like carbon monoxide. If the canary got sick or died, it was a sign that the air was unsafe, and miners needed to evacuate. Coal miners began using canaries (and mice) in coal mines in the early 20th century, specifically around 1911 in the United Kingdom, and the practice continued for decades. The reason is that Canaries have a high metabolism and very sensitive respiratory systems, making them more quickly affected by poisonous gases than humans.

The United States and other countries adopted similar practices shortly afterward, but the practice was largely discontinued by the 1980s, when electronic gas detectors became more reliable and humane. Today, the phrase serves as an idiom that means an early warning of danger or trouble.

In New York City, a 33-year-old Ugandan native democratic socialist, who has been a U.S. citizen for 7 years, named Zohran Mamdani, is the Canary. Mamdani has about 5 years of working in government, supports global intifada, rent controls, and openly expresses a desire for government-run grocery stores. If I could describe his political philosophy, I would call it Theocratic Socialism (I made this up).

How did we come so far since 9/11, and what will be the future of our nation if this is an early warning? For starters, we can look at what has been happening across the pond in Europe. In London, census data from 2021 reveals 48% of public housing is occupied by a foreign-born head of household, compared to a national average of 19%, at a cost of nearly 5 billion annually. In addition, data indicated 35% of working-age foreign-born residents living in public housing are either “unemployed or economically inactive despite living in one of Britain’s most productive regions.” This at a cost of over $200,000 each by retirement age, according to the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR).

A 23-year-old who livestreamed a riot in Staffordshire on TikTok was given a 9-month prison sentence. The reason, that the men she filmed were Muslim, masked and wearing hoodies, armed with metal pipes and planks of wood, making racist comments.

Across Europe, the rise of Islam is growing, as well as the number of Islamists. Now, do not get it twisted, I know the difference between Islamists and Muslims; nevertheless, it has been steadily rising in France, Germany, and Sweden, driven by demographic growth, migration, cultural engagement, and political debates.

France has a population of around 5–8 million Muslims, which is the largest in Western Europe. They are primarily from North Africa (Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia), making Islam the second-largest religion in the country. This has resulted in a growing number of mosques, halal businesses, and Islamic schools. This has caused tensions between Islamic practice and France’s strict secularism, of laws banning hijab in schools, and burqa in public, for example.

Germany has a population of around 6 million Muslims, who are generally left-leaning socialist politically and religious fundamentalists, the majority of whom came from Turkey, the Middle East, the Balkans, and more recently Syria and Afghanistan. There are over 2,000 mosques in the country, and German-born Muslim youth are increasingly asserting their religious identity, increasing Muslim representation in German politics and society. Likewise, there has been a rise in terrorist attacks across the nation. Below are a few examples.

• A 23-year-old man threatened staff at the Stuttgart Wine Village festival in September 2024, shouting “I will bring you all to Allah!” after demanding the music be turned off.

• Two Afghan men, Ibrahim M.G. and Ramin N., were charged in Germany for planning an attack on Sweden in retaliation for Quran burnings.

• In September 2024. A 27-year-old Syrian man, suspected of holding radical Islamist views, was arrested for plotting to kill German soldiers with machetes in Hof, Bavaria.

• In November 2024, a 35-year-old Algerian migrant was arrested in Germany for allegedly setting fire to an asylum center in Schleiden-Vogelsang, North Rhine-Westphalia. The fire injured 16 people.

• In October 2024, a 15-year-old Turkish-German teenager was arrested in Düsseldorf for allegedly planning an Islamist-style attack on European Jews.

• Four teenagers suspected of planning Islamist terror attacks on churches or synagogues were arrested in Germany.

• In October 2024, a 28-year-old Libyan national was arrested in Germany on suspicion of planning a terror attack on Israel’s embassy in Berlin.

• In September 2024, a 41-year-old Syrian man was arrested in Essen after ramming a van into two shops and threatening passers-by with a machete.

Sweden has a much smaller Muslim population, estimated to be around a million Muslims. However, the total population of the nation is estimated to be about 10 million. The majority are from Iraq, Syria, Somalia, and Bosnia. Muslim politicians and activists are gaining visibility in the Social Democrats and the Green Party.

It seems the recent success of Zohran Mamdani, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), may portend a similar seismic shift seen across Europe in the U.S. Mamdani is known for his progressive, anti-capitalist politics and anti-Israel political views. His platform:

• Advocates for legislation to stop arbitrary evictions and rent hikes.

• Supports full funding for NYCHA (New York City Housing Authority) without privatization.

• Calls for the expansion of non-market, publicly owned housing.

• Supports fully fare-free MTA buses and subways.

• Supports taxing ultra-wealthy New Yorkers to fund social services.

• Backed legislation like the Invest in Our New York Act, which includes a wealth tax and capital gains tax reform

• Supports the New York Health Act, which would establish single-payer, state-run healthcare for all residents.

• Advocates for dismantling private insurance dominance in health services.

• Considers Israel an apartheid state and wants to end U.S. military aid to Israel.

• Supports a Green New Deal for New York, including government ownership of utilities

• Supports divesting from police budgets and reinvesting in communities.

• Favors ending solitary confinement and rolling back mass incarceration policies.

His father, Mahmood Mamdani, is a renowned Ugandan academic of Ismaili heritage (a Shia Muslim sect). The Ismaili Shia tradition is predominant in Iran and represents distinct branches within Shia Islam, with significant theological, political, and cultural differences. The Supreme Leader, currently Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has held the position since 1989, is a member of this Shia Muslim sect.

Mamdani may end up becoming the next Mayor of New York City. He believes that the government can guarantee dignity for everyone, and if successful, we may have a lens into what trying to establish Sharia law in America will look like. Much of what he proposes to implement if elected is practiced extensively in Iran.

The Iranian government has adopted various socialist-inspired practices, especially since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, which combines elements of Islamic ideology, populism, and state-led economic planning. Iran’s constitution requires that key industries (oil, gas, banking, large-scale trade) be owned or heavily regulated by the state. Parts of the Iranian Constitution categorize the economy into public, cooperative, and private sectors, with the public sector leading in “essential” economic activities, and it has long provided large-scale subsidies, particularly for fuel, bread, medicine, and electricity.

Although subsidy reforms began in the 2010s, direct cash transfers (a kind of universal basic income) were introduced as compensation. In addition, the government maintains price controls on essential goods and occasionally imposes rationing during times of scarcity or sanctions.

After the 1979 Revolution, land and property belonging to elites tied to the Shah were confiscated and redistributed, particularly to rural peasants or used for collective farming. These were often managed under Islamic or revolutionary principles but mirrored classic agrarian socialism in form.

Iran uses centralized economic planning, typically through five-year development plans, which set strategic goals for employment, industrial output, and resource allocation. These plans often echo the structure of Soviet-style socialist economies. Under Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (2005–2013), the government embraced a populist economic agenda: cash handouts, price controls, housing for the poor, and anti-elitist messaging.

If politicians like Zohran Mamdani are our future, in concert with unknown terrorist threats due to a porous border, then what may become commonplace in the future may put our nation at serious risk.

One could logically postulate that the open-border policy of the Biden Administration, the threat from possible acts of terrorism have increased. Under President Biden, illegal border crossings increased. According to data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), between January 2021 and early 2024, over 300 individuals on the Terrorist Screening Dataset (TSDS) were apprehended at U.S. borders.

In Fiscal Year 2023, CBP reported 169 encounters with individuals on the watchlist at the southern border, compared to 15 in FY 2021. Additionally, there have been isolated cases of people on terror watchlists being intercepted at the southern border. The FBI (Director Christopher Wray, May 2024 Congressional Testimony) and DHS have warned of an increased threat of domestic extremism and lone wolf attacks, by organized foreign sleeper cells entering via the southern border. We are seeing these manifest now.

Multiple individuals with Islamist extremist ties have been intercepted or apprehended at or after crossing U.S. borders under the Biden administration. These cases involved groups like Hezb-e-Islami and ISIS.

In 2021, two Yemeni nationals were apprehended near Calexico, CA. Both were on the No-Fly List and FBI terror watchlist, after having crossed illegally at the Southern border. In May 2023, an individual with ties to the terror group ISIS from Uzbekistan was arrested after crossing the southern border. Recently, Mohamad Hamad, a self-described Hamas operative who infiltrated the US Air Force and once boasted that he’s “been a terrorist since he’s been a kid,” was hit with additional charges this week alongside two Pittsburgh women after the feds foiled an apparent terror plot involving a pair of pipe bombs. Hamad, 23, who has dual citizenship in the US and Lebanon, was already charged for defacing a synagogue, was hit with a nine-count superseding indictment along with Talya Lubit, 24, and Micaiah Collins, 22.

According to acting US Attorney Troy Rivetti:

“Mohamad Hamad lied about his loyalty to the United States, among other false statements, in an attempt to obtain a Top-Secret security clearance.”

A 45-year-old Iraqi national who was granted refugee status in the U.S. is accused of having fought for ISIS and al-Qaida and is now facing extradition to Iraq on a murder charge. The FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force arrested Omar Ameen at his home in Sacramento on Wednesday. Ameen is charged in the 2014 death of an Iraqi police officer in his hometown, Rawah, just after it fell to the Islamic State.

A man who pledged his allegiance to ISIS allegedly scouted Oklahoma’s football stadium for a possible terrorist attack, The Oklahoman’s Nolan Clay reported. He is awaiting sentencing. Landon Kyle Swinford texted an undercover officer in September 2023 after attending an Oklahoma game. He told the officer he “had looked at the barricades and security and thought the stadium could be a potential target for an attack.”

Mohammed Karwan, a member of Afghan Hezb‑e‑Islami, a U.S.-designated terrorist organization responsible for killing American soldiers and civilians, illegally crossed in March 2023 near San Ysidro, CA. He was initially released before being apprehended some time later.

In June 2024, eight men from Tajikistan, believed to have ties to ISIS, were detained in NY, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia after entering via the southern border with clean background checks. It was reported that they had illegally crossed from Tijuana, Mexico, on March 30, 2023.

Last week, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced the arrest of an Iranian national, who is a convicted felon and former member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Mehran Makari Saheli, in Minnesota this weekend. Saheli was illegally in the United States after an immigration judge ordered him to leave the country three years ago, and has “admitted connections” to the terrorist organization Hezbollah.

We are already seeing small-scale terrorist attacks across the nation. Four men (Dursa Muktar Mohamed, 18; Ayub Mohamed Ali, 19; Yahya Abdul Khanyare, 18; Mubashir Nasir Ali)and one juvenile are charged in connection with an assault on a Fridley basketball player with a tire iron during a high school basketball game. In Chicago, an Orthodox Jew was shot on the way to synagogue by a man shouting “Allahu Akbar.” A man living in Oklahoma City, Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27, after entering the U.S. in 2021 on a special immigrant visa from Afghanistan, was arrested for allegedly plotting an election day "terrorist attack."

Even political changes support that the influence of Islam via immigration is changing society. Washington State, which does not officially recognize Easter or Yom Kippur as state holidays, has become the first state in the country to recognize the Islamic holidays of Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha. The act (Senate Bill 5106) was signed into law this month. Democratic Governor Bob Ferguson signed the legislation into law this month.

In Texas, just outside of Dallas, the new community of Epic City, a totally Muslim City, has developed where aspects of Sharia Law have been instituted. The East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC Mosque) and the Islamic Center of Irving have transformed entire neighborhoods into religiously exclusive zones

One would think it stops here, but it does not. Many of these organizations are receiving state and federal funding. These include Mosques and community groups, some of which pledge allegiance to Iran, support Hamas, and seek Sharia law in America. We are talking millions, some detailed in the chart below for Texas (forgot where I got it from).

This past June, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) released a video in which the group's leader, Sa'ad Bin Atef Al-Awlaki, called for the assassination of American President Donald Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Secretary of Defense Peter Hegseth. Specifically, they call for Muslims in Europe and the United States to attack Jews and Americans with impunity to avenge Gazans. Let us not allow America to become Britain or Europe.

The stupidity of young voters is unreal. NYC has fallen to Islam. If I had my way, states would put in place laws requiring that all candidates must be natural-born. the UK and London in particular may as well be operating under Sharia Law, by individuals driven by Islamist extremist ideology in concert with socialist politics.

Considering Mamdani’s victory in NYC and Ghazala Hashmi's historic win for the Democratic nomination for Virginia lieutenant governor, things are not looking promising for America's future if progressives continue this trend. If she wins, she will be the first Muslim and Asian American elected to a statewide office in Virginia.

People deserve the government they vote for. I didn’t think New York could get any lower than De Blasio, but here we go. Few on the left in politics have never created or run a business, but folks believe they can run a grocery store.

New Yorkers, I just want to ask, what is wrong with you guys? You seriously are digging your own grave, and possibly the nation’s. I hate to see NYC fall like this. It’s fucking sad, and I’m a country boy from Tennessee.

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