In the far West, by the edge of the great sea, there rose a city of towers and lights.
They called it Avaran, though the wise ones whispered another name: The City of Two Suns.

For it was ruled not by kings, but by desires — one sun of gold, and one of rage.
Both burned fiercely, and neither gave warmth.

1. The Weaver of Shadows

From the east, a man arrived. He called himself the Weaver of the Poor. He spoke softly, like rain after drought.

He promised that the people would own the future — that the old merchants and their golden towers would kneel.

His words shone like justice, and the weary gathered to him.

But behind him walked the Three Spirits of Hunger — unseen but always near.

• The first was the Vulture of Wealth, who fed not on corpses, but on collapsing currencies and frightened democracies.
• The second was the Crescent Wind, a preacher of unity who dreamed of an empire dressed as faith.
• The third was the Red Dragon, ancient and patient, who spoke of friendship but built its ships for siege.

They gave the Weaver gold, words, and the illusion of destiny. And so he rose, radiant and righteous — yet hollow at the core.

2. The Merchant of Mirrors

Across the land, another man held sway — the Merchant of Mirrors.

He wore a crown of noise and carried a staff of vanity.
He too claimed to speak for the people, but his trade was anger.
He sold mirrors instead of bread, and the crowd bought their own reflection.

He shouted, “I will save you from the darkness!”
But every word he uttered cast a longer shadow.

The Monk of the Empty Bowl once said:

“The liar and the zealot are brothers.
One sells the disease, the other the cure — both for profit.”

3. The City Forgets Its Balance

The Weaver promised equality, the Merchant promised greatness. The city, caught between the two suns, began to melt.

In the name of justice, free thought was bound.
In the name of safety, compassion was mocked.
The rich fled to their glass castles; the poor shouted in the streets.
And over it all, the Vulture, the Crescent, and the Dragon watched and smiled.

Each chaos birthed opportunity.

The more the people fought, the deeper the foreign roots grew.

Faith became politics, politics became religion, and truth — a casualty no one mourned.

4. The Child and the Monk

One evening, in the ruins of an old park, a child found a wandering monk carving words into a stone.

“What are you writing, old one?” asked the child.

“A warning,” said the monk, smiling. “But no one reads stone anymore.”

“Who will save us — the Weaver or the Merchant?”

The monk brushed the dust from his hands.

“The Weaver seeks to chain your mind.
The Merchant seeks to sell your fear.
Neither can save you, for both have forgotten silence.”

The child frowned. “Then what should we do?”

The monk whispered,

“When two suns rise, do not pray for one to win.
Pray for the night — for in darkness, your eyes remember how to see.”

5. The Return of Night

In time, the Vulture’s fortune grew fat, the Dragon’s ports grew crowded, and the Crescent’s sermons filled the air. The Weaver’s compassion became command; the Merchant’s pride became poison.

The city burned not with fire, but with confusion. The people, tired of choosing between greed and guilt, turned inward.

And when the lights finally failed, they saw — faintly — that both suns had been illusions. One forged by gold, the other by grievance.

Neither real, neither divine.

Moral

The monk’s final carving read:

“Empires are not destroyed by enemies, but by choices made in blindness.
The one who promises to save you from greed may crave power;
The one who swears to fight corruption may be its reflection.
And between them, the people forget the quiet art of seeing.”

And so, the City of Two Suns faded — not by invasion, but by glare.
In the end, only those who remembered silence could rebuild.

The Real Mamdani

The November 2025 election of Zohran Mamdani as New York City's mayor represents an unprecedented convergence of three historically distinct but increasingly aligned networks: Islamist organizations with documented ties to terrorism and genocide, Chinese Communist Party influence operations, and George Soros's progressive philanthropic ecosystem.

There is virtually no centrist Democratic forces remaining to provide balance.

The Islamist Network

The Islamist network that elevated Zohran Mamdani to political prominence did not emerge overnight. Its ideological and organizational roots trace back decades—reaching as far as 1971, when Islamist militias perpetrated mass atrocities against Hindus in Bangladesh under the banner of religious purification.

Many of the same transnational groups and their ideological heirs have since found legitimacy under new guises like front organizations, advocacy groups, and “civil rights” outfits operating across North America.

Today, the same ecosystem that cheered the Hamas-led October 7th massacres and justified the slaughter of civilians in Israel stands behind Mamdani.

His political ascent is not merely a personal story. It is the culmination of a long, deliberate infiltration of American political and cultural spaces by networks tied, ideologically and financially, to groups sympathetic to jihadist causes.

Those are the people along with the ones who cheered the October 7th massacres by Hamas and Palestinian people of Jews, that Mamdani is beholden to and will be held "accountable to" by his Hamas linked supporters.

Mamdani’s loyalties, explicitly or implicitly, are thus not only to his constituents but also to those who view his position as a political foothold for their broader Islamist agenda.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR): Mamdani's Primary Institutional Backer

Zohran Mamdani's campaign received $120,000 from the Unity and Justice Fund PAC and $23,500 from Unity Lab PAC—both linked to CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations).

A Muslim civil rights group federal lawmakers described as having “deep ties to terrorist organizations” is linked to one of the biggest single backers of Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral campaign, public records show. The Unity and Justice Fund political action committee gave the Democratic Socialist frontrunner $120,000. They share addresses and personnel with CAIR Action, according to the Federal Election Commission and Open Secrets, a government transparency group that tracks money in politics. (Source: Muslim group with ‘deep’ terrorist ties linked to large Mamdani donors: documents / NY Post)

According to radical activist Linda Sarsour, described as Mamdani's mentor, CAIR mobilized over 80% of Muslim-American contributions to his campaign and served as his "biggest institutional backer."

“The PACS that have supported Zohran – or a particular PAC that has supported Zohran – is probably over 80% of Muslim-American donors in this country – high-net donors, grassroots donors,” Sarsour said at the conference during a panel discussion. “I want to say, make the point, that the Unity and Justice Fund PAC, which is the CAIR super PAC, was the largest institutional donor to the pro-Zohran PAC in New York.” (Source: Linda Sarsour: Mamdani's biggest financial backer is Council on American–Islamic Relations / Yahoo News)

This marks a turning point in Muslim/Islamist politics in the United States. Islamism has now been mainstreamed.

The statement by CAIR, therefore, is quite significant.

It shows how the "Palestinian cause" has been used to foist an Islamist at the helm of world's financial capital!

CAIR's Terrorist Designation History:

• Named unindicted co-conspirator in the 2008 Holy Land Foundation trial, where five leaders were convicted of funneling over $12 million to Hamas
• FBI severed formal contacts with CAIR in 2009 due to Hamas links
• Federal lawmakers including Senator Tom Cotton and Representative Elise Stefanik have called for investigations into CAIR's "deep ties to terrorist organizations"
• IRS revocation of tax-exempt status has been repeatedly requested due to alleged terrorist connections

Mamdani himself praised the "Holy Land Five" in a 2017 rap song, with lyrics stating: "My love to the Holy Land Five. You better look 'em up."

Socialist NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani once voiced his “love” for the five leaders of a notorious nonprofit convicted of funneling more than $12 million to the terror group Hamas. The former C-list rapper-turned-far-left-pol praised the heads of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development – known as the “Holy Land Five”– in a shocking 2017 rap track uncovered by the antisemitism-fighting group Canary Mission, and made public in a one-minute video segment released Friday. “My love to the Holy Land Five. You better look ’em up,” Mamdani – who performed under the stage name Mr. Cardamom – says in a song called “Salaam” which the Queens assemblyman has said is about growing up Muslim in New York. (Source: "Socialist NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani once rapped about his ‘love’ for Hamas terror-funding group ‘Holy Land Five’" / NY Post)

Imagine that - one year before becoming a naturalized U.S. citizen, he was literally singing the praises of convicted Hamas funders. That is why some Republicans have threatened to take away Mamdani's citizenship.

A Republican congressman has called for an investigation into the citizenship status of New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani. Florida Representative Randy Fine wrote on X that "we have clearly suffered from massive naturalization fraud," claiming that some immigrants "swore an oath to America but clearly came to destroy it." (Source: Newsweek)

Congressman Fine calls it a "massive naturalization fraud," where public figures like Zohran Mamdani, Omar Ilhan and Mehdi Hassan should be investigated and fraud ascertained to then denaturalize and deport them.

If attempted, that would be truly an unprecedented set of actions in the US. Actions that can spiral into further policy decisions and actions with terrible ramifications.

Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA): The American Gateway of Jamaat-e-Islami

Five ICNA staffers donated $1,300 to Mamdani's campaign (up to $7,700 with matching funds).While this may seem modest, the significance lies not in the amount but in the organizational connection.

Some of America’s most controversial extremist organizations are backing Mamdani, starting with the Islamic Circle of North America, a Muslim nonprofit that terror experts identify as the North American branch of Jamaat-e-Islami, a violent South Asian Islamist group. Ashrafuzzaman Khan, the former head of ICNA’s New York chapter, was convicted by a Bangladeshi war crimes tribunal and sentenced to death in absentia for his role in the torture and murder of 18 Bangladeshi intellectuals.  Five ICNA staff members kicked in a total of $1,300 in individual contributions to Mamdani — meaning that, including matching funds, his campaign received $7,700 thanks to ICNA generosity. The Hamas-aligned Council on American-Islamic Relations boosted a Mamdani-affiliated political action committee with a $100,000 donation, The Post has reported. On top of that, at least five CAIR officials gave independent small-dollar gifts to the Democratic Socialist’s campaign, helping him scoop up taxpayer funds. They work for an organization that was listed as an unindicted conspirator in a scheme to finance Hamas — a trial that ended in a 65-year sentence for a CAIR board member. (Source: "Dangerous funders fill Zohran Mamdani’s coffers — multiplied by taxpayer $$" / NY Post)

ICNA is not a benign civil society organization. It is the operational front for Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) in North America.

What really is ICNA?

Let us start unraveling the web of ICNA.

The Ideological Parent

The Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) is not merely inspired by Jamaat-e-Islami—it is its American operational arm. Founded in 1971, ICNA emerged directly from Jamaat-e-Islami's ideology, created by Abu Ala Mawdudi in 1941 in British India.

To understand the contributions of Maulana Maududi to the global Jihad along with his associations with Egyptian Jihad fountainheads - Hassan Al Banna and Syed Qutb, please read our earlier posts that detail the links in detail.

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There is a Pew Research article as well which gives details the links between Jamaat-i-Islami and Muslim Brotherhood.

Muslim Brotherhood and Jama’at-i Islami

The Muslim Brotherhood and Jama’at-i Islami are separate movements that tend to draw the bulk of their members from different ethnic groups (Arabs and

Pew Research CenterNo Author

Maududi's commentary called Tafhim-ul-Quran continues to be an integral part of their curriculum even today in its US chapters.

ICNA's Founding and Ideology:

Founded in the 1960s as Halqa Ahbabe Islami ("Islamic Circle of Friends"), ICNA evolved from JI's diaspora recruitment efforts among South Asian Muslims in North America.

By 1977, it had officially adopted the name "Islamic Circle of North America" while maintaining its Urdu name.

ICNA's 2010 Member's Handbook explicitly defines the organization as:

"An Islamic Jama'ah striving toward Iqamat-ad-Deen in North America."

Here is the extract from the handbook.

They strive for establishing the global caliphate.

Also read this investigative report that gives details of what ICNA is doing in North America.

Iqamat-e-Deen means "establishment of Islamic governance"—the foundational doctrine of Jamaat-e-Islami's founder, Maulana Abul A'la Maududi.

The handbook prescribes five phases to establish a global Caliphate:

1. Tarbiyah Process – Ideological indoctrination through education and religious discipline
2. Societal Level – Outreach to disadvantaged communities via charity to build legitimacy
3. State Level – Align intellectual and political elites to Islamic governance principles
4. National Level – Integrate governance under Sharia law
5. Global Level – Unify the Ummah under a worldwide Caliphate

This is not speculation or conspiracy theory. This is ICNA's stated objective, documented in their own organizational literature.

ICNA's Operational Network

ICNA operates through a cluster of 12 nonprofits, including:

• Helping Hands for Relief and Development (HHRD) – Humanitarian front organization
• ICNA Relief – Social services and disaster aid
• Muslim Ummah of North America (MUNA) – Bangladeshi diaspora mobilization

Despite extremist ideological foundations, these organizations have received millions in U.S. government grants:

• $1.3 million from DHS (2016)

Despite its long history of extremism, in 2016 ICNA received $1.3 million of taxpayers’ money as part of a grant awarded by the Department of Homeland Security. (Source: National Review)

• Over $10 million from FEMA (2016–2018)

In addition to USAID and the State Department’s funding of Islamism, other government departments that are top federal donors through subsidy programs include the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Education’s school voucher programs. Another is the Department of Homeland Security, which funds Islamism through two revenue streams. The first is the non-profit Security Grant Program, “a congressionally appropriated program to provide security for religious institutions” that benefits Islamist groups like the Council for American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and radical mosques across the country. The second is through the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which radical groups such as the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) work with through its ICNA Relief charity. ICNA Relief, which is part of Jamaat-e-Islami, the violent South Asian Islamist movement, has partnered with radical and terror-aligned groups in the U.S. and abroad. Under the first Trump administration, ICNA Relief received $10 million, “the largest single grant ever given” to an Islamist charity. “It remains to be seen what a second Trump administration will do.” One of the most significant problems tracking USAID money “in particular, is that it moves money to anonymous grantees.” USAID operates “to some extent as an arm of American intelligence.” Monies are hidden both for America’s safety as well as its grantees, especially in places such as Syria. The government is obliged to report these monies, but the federal records stipulate them as “miscellaneous grantees.” (Source: Middle East Forum)

• $25,000 from NYC's Communities of Color Nonprofit Fund - Here is the extract from 2025 New York City Council budget (Source link)

The same organizations that follow a phased plan to establish a global Caliphate are being funded by the U.S. federal government and New York City.

It may not be such a surprise since, as we detailed out in our newsletter earlier - Western powers have funded and stood up the Muslim Brotherhood and its message of Jihad and terror.

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Operation Searchlight: The 1971 Bangladesh Genocide and Jamaat-e-Islami's War Crimes

Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin, a convicted war criminal sentenced to death in absentia by Bangladesh's International Crimes Tribunal, served as chairman of Muslim Aid, an organization co-founded by Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens).

To understand the true nature of Jamaat-e-Islami—and by extension, ICNA—we must examine their role in one of the 20th century's most brutal genocides.

Background: The 1971 East Pakistan Crisis

In December 1970, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) held elections in which Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's Awami League won an overwhelming majority. The military junta in West Pakistan, led by General Yahya Khan, refused to accept the results.

As Bengali nationalist anger erupted in mass demonstrations, the Pakistani Army launched Operation Searchlight on March 25, 1971.

Operation Searchlight: A Campaign of Genocide

Operation Searchlight was not a counter-insurgency operation—it was a systematic campaign of ethnic cleansing and genocide targeting Bengali Muslims, Hindus, and intellectuals.

The First Night: March 25-26, 1971

The crackdown began in Dhaka during the night of March 25-26, when approximately 7,000 people were killed in a single night.

Two areas were specifically targeted:

The Jagannath Hall Massacre: Jagannath Hall at Dhaka University, an exclusively Hindu residence, was completely destroyed, with at least 70-80 people killed. Pakistani soldiers went room to room, executing students and professors.

The Shankharipara Massacre: Shankharipara, a narrow lane in old Dhaka populated by Hindu artisans specializing in conch shell (shankha) business, was targeted without any military justification. According to journalist Anthony Mascarenhas, approximately 8,000 men, women, and children were killed in this single neighborhood.

Within the first week, as many as 30,000 people were killed in Dhaka alone.

Systematic Targeting of Hindus

The Pakistani Army's campaign against Hindus was genocidal in intent and execution. General Tikka Khan clearly stated a group of journalists in western Jessore - "Pehle inko Mussalman karo" (First, make them Muslim)"

Ordered by military president General (Gen.) Yahya Khan, the genocide was commanded by several generals led Gen. Tikka Khan, who had vowed to “ reduce the majority to a minority …” While speaking with a group of journalists in western Jessore, Gen. Tikka had said, "Pehle inko Mussalman karo" (First, make them Muslim).  His remarks show that in the highest echelons of the Pakistani Armed Forces the Bengalis were perceived as being “not true Muslims.” (Source: Genocide 1971: The inexplicable UN silence! / Center for Research on Strategic and Security Issues)

This anecdote demonstrates that at the senior-most level of the Pakistan Army, there was a perception that Bengalis Hindus had to be targeted and also they believed that Bengalis were not "real Muslims" and needed to be "purified."

The Scale of Anti-Hindu Atrocities: From April 1971 onward, the army began systematically persecuting Hindus as suspected spies and traitors. The aim was the eradication of eight to eleven million Hindus—either by killing them or driving them out of the country.

• The army deliberately looted and burned thousands of Hindu villages
• Killed any Hindu they encountered—men, women, or children
• In some areas, Bengali Muslims participated in persecution of Bengali Hindus "out of hatred and greed"
• Hindus were identified by "a quick inspection underneath their lungis" before execution

On May 20, 1971, at Chuknagar, a small unit of Pakistani soldiers killed dozens of Hindu refugees among thousands thronging the riverbank and bazaar. This was followed by large-scale looting of refugees' properties by locals.

The Systematic Use of Rape as a Weapon of War

Perhaps the most horrific aspect of Operation Searchlight was the systematic rape of Bengali women as a deliberate military strategy.

The Scale: Estimates of women and girls raped during the nine-month conflict range from 200,000 to 400,000. This makes the 1971 Bangladesh genocide one of the largest mass rape campaigns in modern history.

The Intent: According to the Hamoodur Rahman Commission Report (Pakistan's own investigation), the Pakistani army is accused of (Source - link)

"raping of a large number of East Pakistani women by the officers and men of the Pakistan army as a deliberate act of revenge, retaliation and torture"

The details of the rape camp atrocities have been documented in multiple places and presented at the highest levels (even when Pakistani sources keep denying them). This is a detailed discussion at the Human Rights Council in UN.

Read one extract.

The Mechanics: Rape Camps

Women were raped in multiple contexts: In their homes during "sweep operations" in villages

1. In their local areas as public acts of terror
2. Forcibly taken to 'rape camps' where they were held for systematic sexual violence

Social workers documented lists of names and numbers of women held in these camps. However, many of these lists were deliberately burned by the post-war government in 1972, and remaining lists were destroyed during 1978-80 and again in 1985-86 by subsequent governments.

The Rationales: The army used rape to:

• Terrorize the populace into submission
• Extract information about the insurgency through torture
• Boost the morale of soldiers as a "reward"
• Crush the burgeoning Bangladeshi national identity by humiliating and traumatizing the population
• Force impregnation to create "true Muslims" and dilute Hindu identity

The Pakistan Army's local militia, known as the Razakaar and Al-Badr (both Jamaat-e-Islami paramilitary wings), used rape specifically to:

• Terrorize the Hindu population in particular
• Gain access to Hindu land and property after driving families away
• Enforce religious conversion through sexual violence

Total Death Toll

Estimates of total deaths during the nine-month genocide vary widely:

• Official Bangladeshi government figure: 3 million killed
• Conservative estimates: 300,000-500,000 killed
• 200,000-400,000 women and girls raped
• 10 million refugees fled to India

Jamaat-e-Islami's Direct Role

Jamaat-e-Islami was not a bystander—it was an active participant and collaborator in the genocide.

Formation of Paramilitary Death Squads: Jamaat-e-Islami formed two paramilitary forces:

• Al-Badr – Focused on identifying and killing Bengali intellectuals
• Al-Shams – General terror operations against civilians

These forces worked alongside the Pakistani Army, serving as local collaborators who could identify targets and operate in areas where Pakistani soldiers might be conspicuous.

Targeting of Intellectuals: At the final stage of the war in December 1971, when it became clear the Indian Army was about to liberate Bangladesh, Jamaat-e-Islami's Al-Badr death squads systematically targeted Bengali professionals and intellectuals. Most were subjected to enforced disappearance, and many bodies were later found at a brick kiln at Rayerbazar in Dhaka.

War Criminals in ICNA Leadership

Ashrafuzzaman Khan, former ICNA vice-president and New York chapter leader, was convicted (in absentia) by the Bangladesh International Crimes Tribunal in 2016 for his role as commander of Jamaat-e-Islami's Al-Badr militia.

His crimes included the murder of 18 intellectuals during the 1971 Liberation War. He lived and worked in the United States for decades, serving in ICNA leadership while being a fugitive war criminal.

Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin, another convicted war criminal sentenced to death in absentia, served as chairman of Muslim Aid, an organization co-founded by Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens). He participated in the systematic murder of intellectuals during Operation Searchlight as part of the Jamaat-e-Islami apparatus that perpetrated genocide.

This is the organization whose staffers donated to Zohran Mamdani's campaign.

ICNA's Continued Links to Terrorism

In 2017, HHRD (ICNA's humanitarian arm) partnered with terror-designated organizations:

• Falah-e-Insaniyat Foundation (FIF) – Charity arm of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT)
• Milli Muslim League – Political front of Hafiz Saeed, mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai attacks
• Al-Khidmat Foundation – Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan's charity arm

This is not ancient history—these partnerships occurred just eight years ago.

The George Soros Ecosystem: $37 Million in "Progressive" Funding

While Mamdani rails against billionaires and states that "billionaires shouldn't exist," his campaign was fundamentally enabled by George Soros's Open Society Foundations, which has indirectly funneled approximately $37 million to left-wing groups supporting his mayoral campaign.

Funding Breakdown

The money came to Mamdani via a wide web of NGOs and Non-Profits.

$23.7 million to Working Families Party (WFP) through its nonprofit arm:

• WFP provided cross-endorsement and ground infrastructure
• WFP line on ballot was critical to squeezing out Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary

$13.9 million to nine other nonprofits including:

• Make The Road Action: $3.5 million
• Community Voices Heard: $2.6 million
• Move On: $2.3 million
• Jewish Voice for Peace Action: $650,000 (7 JVP staffers also donated directly to Mamdani)

Patrick Gaspard: The Fixer

Patrick Gaspard, former Open Society Foundations president and longtime ally of ex-Mayor Bill de Blasio, guided Mamdani throughout the campaign.

This included:

• Strategic advice on coalition building
• Facilitating the cross-endorsement deal between Mamdani and City Comptroller Brad Lander at a Midtown Lebanese restaurant
• Connecting Mamdani with key progressive institutional players

Gaspard is now a distinguished senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank heavily funded by Soros

Media Complicity

Katrina vanden Heuvel, publisher of The Nation magazine, donated $25,000 to Mamdani's PAC through Mayberry LLC in September 2025—shortly after The Nation published an exclusive Mamdani interview in August 2025.

Zohran Mamdani’s campaign has been receiving suspiciously timed donations from his media pals and contributions from progressives tied to communist China. With less than a month to go before the mayoral election, the Democratic Socialist candidate’s political action committees have raked in hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations. Among them is one from Katrina vanden Heuvel, the editor and publisher of The Nation, who gave the New Yorkers for Lower Costs PAC $25,000 through Mayberry LLC, a private company she controls. The contribution was received on September 16, shortly after vanden Heuvel’s magazine published an exclusive interview with the mayoral candidate, which appeared online August 12. (Source: NYPost)

In October 2025, The Nation featured a Mamdani endorsement by former NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio. This represents a clear quid pro quo between editorial support and financial backing.

The Hypocrisy

Mamdani has stated that "Billionaires shouldn't exist" and also advocates for increased property taxes in "richer and whiter neighborhoods"

Yet his campaign was heavily dependent on billionaire Soros funding. Mayor Eric Adams noted this hypocrisy, stating: "You can't have it both ways."

“While Zohran Mamdani attacks job creators and rails against wealth, the truth is he’s benefiting from millions in support from billionaires and the very nonprofit network he pretends to stand apart from,” Mayor Eric Adams told The Post. “You can’t have it both ways. We need leadership that brings people together — not politicians who demonize success while quietly cashing in on it,” added Adams, a registered Democrat seeking re-election as an independent. (Source: George Soros funneled $37M to Working Families Party, other lefty groups backing Zohran Mamdani / AOL)

Business leader John Catsimatidis, who owns the Gristedes supermarket chain, warned he might reduce operations if Mamdani is elected, citing the hostile business environment the socialist mayor would create.

The Chinese Communist Party Connection: Neville Roy Singham and CCP Influence Operations

The third leg of Mamdani's support network is perhaps the most ominous: funding and organizational support from CCP-linked individuals and networks.

Neville Roy Singham: The China-Based Billionaire Maoist

Neville Roy Singham is a China-based American billionaire who:

• Sold his tech business and moved to Beijing shortly afterward
• Self-described Maoist who attends CCP propaganda events
• Has "close friends with one of the chief propagandists for the CCP"
• Funds radical anti-Israel and Marxist groups linked to the Los Angeles riots and Columbia University protests

The New York Times published an extensive investigation in August 2023 exposing Singham's role as a "socialist benefactor of far-left causes" who funds pro-CCP propaganda networks "from a thinktank in Massachusetts."

Direct Links to Mamdani Campaign

Alicia Singham Goodwin (Neville Roy Singham's niece):

• Donated thousands of dollars to Mamdani campaign
• Founded "Jews for Zohran" campaign organization in January 2025
• Serves as political director for Jews for Racial and Economic Justice

Peter Schweizer, president of the Government Accountability Institute, stated

He also shared Mamdani's links with the Qatari Royal Family.

Mamdani family is ‘joined at the hip’ with Qatari royal family, says political consultant | Fox News Video

Government Accountability Institute president Peter Schweizer warns of the family connections of New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani on ‘Life, Liberty & Levin.’

Fox News

"I believe it will be borne out that 'Jews for Zohran' is being funded by Roy Singham... Singham wants to see Mamdani elected"

AppLovin: The Tech Firm with CCP Ties

Omer Hasan and Mohammad Javed, former AppLovin executives, each donated $250,000 to Mamdani-supporting PACs.

AppLovin is alleged to be a national security risk because:

• Chinese national Hao Tang controls nearly 10% of the company
• Tang has reported CCP ties, including alleged money laundering and human trafficking links (per Culper Research report)

The People's Forum and Protest Infrastructure

The Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) investigated the "Singham network."

Here are some takeaways

• The People's Forum, a hard-left "movement incubator" playing a leading role in NYC's anti-Israel protests, is solely funded by Neville Roy Singham
• The organization serves as a coordination hub for protests that Mamdani has supported
• NCRI concluded: "The increase in direct action, targeting infrastructure and public spaces, is in part driven by organizations connected to CCP foreign influence efforts"
• These organizations "persist in inciting unrest throughout the summer of 2024 and in the lead-up to the U.S. presidential election"

Strategic Assessment:

"While nominally focused on Israel, the current protests can be better understood as a well-funded initiative driving a revolutionary, anti-government, and anti-capitalist agenda"

Leading organizations are "versatile tools for foreign entities hostile to the U.S." using methods that "exacerbate societal tensions, polarize the younger generation, and appear to seek the destabilization of American institutions."

Mamdani's Anti-Israel Activism and Islamist Alignment

Mamdani co-founded Bowdoin College's Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter.

He stated in 2021 that anti-Israel BDS activism was the "crux of the reason" he joined Democratic Socialists of America—anti-Israel activism was his gateway to socialist political movement.

"The reason that I joined DSA, if I had to pick one, was because there was no exception for Palestine, because the same fight, the same struggle was understood to be a universal one. And this was an organization that not only understood that, but sought to lift up what was going on in Palestine, by endorsing BDS," said Mamdani, according to a YouTube video of the conference. "And so I'm in this organization because we didn't just pick and choose the battles that everyone was ready for in this very moment, but because we picked and chose the battles that were right and that are extensions of the values that we have as socialists. And so what I would say is, as we gain more and more power, which I am confident that we will, we must ensure that we do not leave any one issue behind because it might not be popular in this one moment. And that extends to Palestine." (Source: Mamdani in 2021: Anti-Israel BDS activism brought me to socialist political movement / Yahoo News)

Post-October 7 Response

One day after Hamas's October 7, 2023 massacre, Mamdani blamed Israel and Netanyahu while failing to mention Hamas in his statement. He claimed "the path toward a just and lasting peace can only begin by ending the occupation and dismantling apartheid."

Refusal to Condemn "Globalize the Intifada"

On NBC's "Meet the Press" in June 2025, Mamdani repeatedly declined to condemn the phrase "globalize the intifada" despite its being widely condemned by Jewish organizations as antisemitic incitement to violence.

Asked to condemn the phrase ‘globalize the intifada,’ Mamdani says mayors shouldn’t ‘police speech’

New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani says that he supports”freedom and justice and safety” for Israelis and Palestinians, but he refuses to condemn the phrase “globalize the intifada,” which some see as a call to violence.

NBC News

His response: "I don't believe that the role of the mayor is to police speech."

Nice deflection!

Five-Day Hunger Strike for Gaza

In 2023, Mamdani went on a five-day hunger strike in solidarity with Gaza, becoming the only mayoral candidate to join rallies protesting NYU Langone's refusal to allow pro-Palestinian protests.

With Zohran Mamdani, the pattern was unmistakable. He would not condemn chants like “globalize the intifada” — a slogan widely understood as a call for violent uprising.

The day after the October 7th massacre, he condemned Netanyahu and Israel rather than the terrorists who butchered civilians.

And when global outrage demanded clarity, he instead chose symbolic activism — going on a hunger strike in solidarity with pro-Palestinian agitators, many of whom openly celebrated Hamas’ actions.

His posture toward jihadist violence has been wrapped in academic vocabulary and semantic evasions, but the ideological affinity is evident. Mamdani’s rhetoric, his selective outrage, and his performative acts of solidarity point to a deeper alignment.

Beneath the careful language, the sympathies shine through.

The Convergence Thesis: Three Networks, One Candidate

Zohran Mamdani's election represents the successful convergence of three networks previously operating in parallel:

1. Islamist Organizations (ICNA/JI, CAIR) seeking political influence and legitimacy for ideology rooted in global Caliphate vision
2. Soros Progressive Ecosystem (OSF, WFP) seeking to implement socialist policies and undermine traditional American governance
3. CCP Influence Operations (Singham network) seeking to destabilize U.S. institutions and create anti-American coalitions

This convergence was not accidental but rather a coordinated strategy utilizing:

• Financial resources ($37M+ from Soros, CCP-linked funds)
• Ground infrastructure (CAIR/ICNA mobilization, DSA's 50,000 volunteers)
• Narrative control (media support, academic legitimization)
• Demographic targeting (Muslim voters, progressives, young people)

The result: a mayor of America's largest city who is simultaneously:

• Backed by organizations with ties to Hamas, Al-Qaeda-linked groups, and Jamaat-e-Islami
• Funded by George Soros's $37 million network
• Connected to CCP influence operations through the Singham network
• A Democratic Socialist advocating for "city-run grocery stores" and massive tax increases
• Openly hostile to Israel and sympathetic to Hamas

The real question Americans must ask is this:

When the far-left ideological bloc and Islamist activists together define the Democratic Party’s new center of gravity, what remains of the political middle?

The Overton window has moved and moved dramatically.

And the mainstreaming of such alliances marks a profound transformation in America’s political DNA.

The Collapse of the American Center and the Future of U.S. Politics

The Death of Centrist Democrats

The Mamdani phenomenon illuminates a profound reality: there are no longer centrist forces in the Democratic Party's left wing.

The party has polarized into two distinct camps:

1. The Establishment/Corporate Wing: Represented by figures like Chuck Schumer, who maintain ties to Wall Street and traditional Democratic donors but have been steadily losing ground to...
2. The Democratic Socialist/Islamist Coalition: Represented by figures like AOC, the Squad, and now Mamdani, who combine radical economic policies with alignment to Islamist organizations and hostility to Israel

Evidence:

• Andrew Cuomo, a centrist establishment Democrat and former governor, was decisively defeated by Mamdani in the primary
• The Working Families Party, backed by Soros, provided the ballot line that enabled this defeat
• No major centrist Democratic figure in NYC could mount effective opposition
• The Democratic Socialists of America's 8,800+ NYC members provided organizational infrastructure that establishment Democrats could not match

The Republican Response: MAGA Ascendant

On the Republican side, a parallel polarization has occurred:

• Traditional Conservative Establishment (represented by figures like Mitt Romney, Liz Cheney) has been marginalized or expelled
• MAGA Populism (represented by Donald Trump and his allies) has become the dominant force
• President Trump threatened to use federal power to seize control of NYC if "communist" Mamdani wins

The Elimination of the Center

The United States now faces a political landscape where:

On the Left:

• Radical Democratic Socialists allied with Islamist organizations
• Funded by billionaire progressive philanthropists (Soros) and CCP-linked networks (Singham)
• Advocating for policies that would fundamentally transform American capitalism
• Aligned with foreign entities hostile to U.S. interests
• Supported by organizations with documented ties to terrorism

On the Right:

• MAGA populism with strongman tendencies
• Willing to use federal power to override local democratic outcomes
• Increasingly hostile to immigration and cultural pluralism
• Aligned with Christian nationalist movements

In the Center:

• A vacuum
• No viable political force commanding significant institutional power or grassroots energy
• Traditional centrist politicians marginalized in both parties

Implications for American Democracy

This polarization creates several dangerous dynamics:

1. Constitutional Crisis Potential

With Trump threatening federal takeover of NYC and Mamdani backed by organizations under FBI scrutiny, we face potential scenarios where:

• Federal government refuses to recognize legitimacy of local elected officials
• State vs. federal conflicts over control of major cities
• Questions about whether officials with foreign-influenced backing can serve
• Potential invocation of martial law or emergency powers

2. Foreign Influence Normalization

Mamdani's election with CCP-linked funding and Islamist organizational support establishes a precedent that foreign influence through ideologically aligned proxies is acceptable if it comes from the "correct" side of the political spectrum.

This will encourage:

• More aggressive CCP United Front operations targeting U.S. cities
• Greater Islamist organization involvement in Democratic Party politics
• Erosion of campaign finance enforcement around foreign influence
• Normalization of candidates with ties to organizations under terrorism investigation

3. The Balkanization of America

As cities become dominated by far-left coalitions and rural/suburban areas become dominated by MAGA populism:

• Policy divergence will become extreme (NYC with "city-run grocery stores" while red states ban any government intervention in markets)
• Cultural warfare will intensify (NYC mayor threatening to arrest Israeli PM while red state governors pass laws mandating support for Israel)
• Economic balkanization will accelerate (businesses fleeing high-tax blue cities for low-tax red states)
• Democratic norms will erode as each side views the other as illegitimate

4. The Urbanization of Extremism

If the Mamdani model succeeds in NYC, it will be replicated in:

• Los Angeles
• Chicago
• Minneapolis
• Detroit
• Philadelphia

The blueprint:

• Combine Soros/OSF funding ($37M template)
• Partner with Islamist organizations (CAIR, ICNA) for Muslim voter mobilization
• Use DSA infrastructure (50,000 volunteers) for ground game
• Leverage anti-Israel sentiment as unifying cause
• Accept CCP-linked funding through cutouts
• Promise radical economic redistribution

Cities with substantial Muslim populations and strong DSA chapters will be targeted. Within a decade, America's major cities could all be governed by similar coalitions.

5. The Death of Cross-Partisan Coalition Building

The Mamdani coalition demonstrates that ideological purity trumps democratic norms:

• Organizations tied to Hamas are acceptable allies if they oppose the right enemies
• CCP influence is tolerable if it advances progressive causes
• Billionaire funding is fine if the billionaire supports the correct policies
• War criminals can be political supporters if they represent the right constituency

This logic works in reverse for MAGA:

• Election fraud claims are acceptable if they serve political ends
• Constitutional violations are tolerable if they stop the right enemies
• Authoritarian methods are justified if they prevent socialist takeover

Once both sides adopt a "by any means necessary" approach, democratic deliberation becomes impossible.

The Road Ahead: Three Scenarios

Scenario 1: Federal-Local Conflict and Crisis (Highest Probability)

If Trump or a MAGA Republican is president while Mamdani governs NYC:

• Federal government refuses to cooperate with NYC on counter-terrorism, cutting intelligence sharing
• Federal funding to NYC is conditioned on policy changes Mamdani refuses to implement
• Constitutional crisis when federal authorities attempt to remove or circumvent Mamdani
• Business exodus accelerates as NYC becomes investment non-viable
• Fiscal crisis by 2027-2028 as tax base collapses
• Either federal takeover or NYC bankruptcy by end of Mamdani's term

Scenario 2: Replication and Escalation (Medium Probability)

Mamdani model succeeds and spreads:

• By 2028, 10-15 major U.S. cities governed by similar coalitions
• Network of sympathetic mayors coordinate policies, creating parallel governance structure
• Urban-rural divide becomes unbridgeable
• Domestic policy on immigration, policing, foreign policy effectively determined locally, creating 50 different Americas
• Constitutional convention calls emerge from red states seeking to limit federal power over states that refuse to control cities
• Functional partition of United States into competing political-economic systems within single borders

Scenario 3: Mamdani Failure and Backlash (Lower Probability)

Mamdani's policies fail spectacularly:

• Corporate exodus creates fiscal collapse within 18 months
• Crime increases under police reform create political backlash
• Democratic establishment mounts recall or primary challenge
• Voters repudiate democratic socialism
• Pendulum swings back toward center

This is the least likely scenario because:

• Once in power, these coalitions can use municipal resources to entrench themselves
• Federal money can bail out fiscal crises if Democrats control Washington
• Media allies will defend and justify failures
• Organizational infrastructure (DSA, CAIR, WFP) will mobilize to prevent removal

What This Means for America

The Mamdani phenomenon represents not just one election, but a civilizational inflection point.

The question is not whether extreme polarization will occur—it already has.

The question is whether American institutions are strong enough to contain the conflict that polarization generates, or whether the conflicts will tear the institutions apart.

When the mayor of America's largest city is backed by organizations tied to:

• The 1971 Bangladesh genocide
• Hamas funding operations
• CCP influence campaigns
• Convicted war criminals

And when the President of the United States threatens to federalize that city to remove its elected mayor...

The End of Consensus America

For nearly seventy years after World War II, American politics rested on a broad, unspoken consensus — a shared understanding of what held the Republic together:

• Capitalism, tempered by a social safety net.
• Democracy, bounded by constitutional restraint.
• A strong national defense against foreign adversaries.
• Unwavering support for allies like Israel.
• Immigration, balanced by the expectation of integration.
• And a clear separation between religion and the state.

That consensus defined the postwar American order — until now. That consensus is dead.

The Democratic Party's left wing now includes:

• Openly socialist candidates advocating government control of commerce
• Organizations seeking to establish Islamic governance in North America
• CCP-funded networks seeking to destabilize American institutions
• Activists who view Israel as a "settler colonial state" deserving destruction

The Republican Party has become:

• Dominated by MAGA populism willing to override democratic outcomes
• Increasingly aligned with Christian nationalist theology
• Hostile to pluralism and immigration
• Willing to use authoritarian methods to prevent left-wing governance

The center has been obliterated.

Zohran Mamdani's election as mayor of New York City—backed by $37 million from George Soros, mobilization from organizations tied to Hamas and the 1971 Bangladesh genocide, and funding from CCP-linked billionaires—is not an anomaly.

It is a template, you see.

The only question now is whether America can survive the implementation of two mutually exclusive visions of its future, or whether the attempt to impose both simultaneously will fracture the republic itself.

The stakes could not be higher. The United States faces the prospect of:

• Major cities governed by coalitions aligned with foreign adversaries
• Federal government willing to override local democracy to prevent such governance
• Complete breakdown of shared democratic norms
• Economic balkanization as businesses flee hostile jurisdictions
• Constitutional crisis when federal and local authorities refuse to cooperate
• Functional partition of the country into competing political systems

And there are no centrist forces remaining with the institutional power or popular support to offer an alternative path.

When organizations that participated in genocide can become king-makers in American elections...

When billionaires can buy mayoral races for candidates who claim billionaires shouldn't exist...

When CCP-linked networks can fund "grassroots" protests that shut down cities...

When the President threatens to federalize the nation's largest city to remove its elected mayor...

We are no longer in the realm of normal democratic politics.

We are in the preliminary stages of what political scientists call regime crisis—when fundamental questions about the nature and legitimacy of governance itself come into play.

The election of Zohran Mamdani may be remembered as the moment when Americans realized that the old republic was gone, and whatever comes next—for better or worse—will be something fundamentally different.

The only certainty is that the center will not return. The forces of polarization are too strong, the incentives for extremism too powerful, the institutional moderating mechanisms too broken.

History suggests the latter is more likely.

And if that happens, the convergence of Islamist organizations, CCP influence operations, and progressive philanthropy that elevated Zohran Mamdani will be studied by future historians as one of the key moments when the unraveling became irreversible.