“America is the genesis of what we call settler colonialism,” Mahmood Mamdani, the father of New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, once told an audience, explaining that Abraham Lincoln “generalized the solution of reservations” and inspired the Nazis, who apparently learned from the American president that genocide was “doable” and that you can “differentiate between people.”
Interestingly, the Muslim academic failed to mention, for example, the Ottoman Empire, which committed genocide and enforced a system of unequal citizenship just a few years before the Nazis rose to power, perhaps because the Ottoman Empire was an Islamic colonialist state.
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“We are turning into one of the worst countries on earth,” Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) once declared, arguing that the supposed militarization of American city streets is worse than the dictatorship she “grew up” in: Somalia.
Then there’s Mehdi Hasan, the British-born, Oxford-educated former Al Jazeera and MSNBC propagandist who, in 2009, famously described non-Muslims as “cattle” who were “incapable of the intellectual effort it requires to shake off those blind prejudices.”
Hasan became a United States citizen in 2020 and recently announced, “I’m more American than you, so cry more,” in response to a critical social media post quoting Hasan’s description of America’s “glorious … multiracial, multicultural democratic experiment” and his experience as “an immigrant,” “a Muslim,” and “a socialist.” The same Mehdi Hasan has a history of anti-American nonsense, including the recent claim that slavery — and even Muslim slaves — built the country.
Now, what is going on here? First, it’s important to note that these individuals — examples of a much broader anti-Americanism among the growing immigrant population — are United States citizens. It’s also important to note that the idea that someone can be more or less American purely based on the nation of their birth is fundamentally anti-American. Indeed, one could argue that those who choose to be American could be demonstrating a greater love for the country than someone who, by luck of birth, has never known anything else.
But crucially, that can only be true if those born elsewhere move to the United States for the right reasons. And the Mamdanis, the Omars, the Hasans, and so many others did not move here for the right reasons.
Sure, they came to America because of what it offered them: fame, fortune, opportunity, safety, and power. But these were mere one-directional benefits embraced by those who — as part of a substantial ideological movement — seek to upend and destroy the very same country they (at least occasionally) pretend to love.
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Take Zohran Mamdani, Mahmoud Mamdani’s son, who may soon be the mayor of New York City. Ignoring the communism, the Islamism, and the terrorism concerns, consider that in June 2020, he posted a picture of himself flipping the bird at a statue of Christopher Columbus, with the caption “take it down.” Just two years after becoming a citizen of the United States, Mamdani is flipping off the man responsible for discovering the country he has voluntarily embraced.
But if a foreign country disgusts you so, why move here? Why stay here? Why seek power to change what, in your own words, is irredeemable? You are no less American if you are born elsewhere, but you are certainly less American if you see citizenship as a one-way street on your path to making this beautiful country like the country you decided to flee. I love America because it is not like Somalia, or Uganda, or Great Britain. And I want to keep it that way.
Ian Haworth is a syndicated columnist. Follow him on X (@ighaworth) or Substack.
