Luma Simms is a Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center; her essays, articles, and book reviews have appeared in a variety of publications including National Affairs, Law and Liberty, The Wall Street Journal, National Review, First Things, Public Discourse, the Institute for Family Studies, and others.

Thoughts on Zohran Mamdani from a Middle Eastern Immigrant

Since taking office earlier this year, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has made good on his dangerous campaign promises to reaffirm Gotham as a “sanctuary” city and thwart the efforts of federal authorities to arrest and deport criminal illegal aliens. While Mamdani’s pro-open borders policies have gotten plenty of attention, perhaps his most haunting comment that went largely unnoticed is the suggestion that we should look to Islam as an example of how to treat migrants – legal or illegal.

Many liberal New Yorkers and Americans are still hoodwinked by Mamdani’s soft-pedaling of radical anti-Western ideology. But when you are a Middle Eastern Christian immigrant like me who is familiar with this communist-Islamist worldview, you understand that people like Mamdani are neither novel nor exciting. They are everything we ran away from.

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