Peloni: The real story of Mamdani’s message lies in what he purposefully does not disclose about his embrace of migration.
“I consider my own faith, Islam, a religion built upon a narrative of migration.”
by | Feb 7, 2026
Mayor Mamdani explaining how Islam and Muhammad should inspire immigration. Screengrab via X
I just came from a barely functioning New York City which had been put into the custody of an inept amateur politician.
The city hasn’t had trash pickup for a third of Mamdani’s term. It’s also had a homeless death against every other day he’s been in office. Zohran Mamdani did promise to transform New York City, but few expected him to make it a frozen wasteland full of corpses and trash in one month.
Rather than doing his job, Mamdani instead delivered a speech blasting ICE and urging Americans to learn from Islam how to treat illegal aliens.
“I consider my own faith, Islam, a religion built upon a narrative of migration. The story of the hijrah reminds us that Prophet Muhammad was a stranger too, who fled Mecca and was welcomed in Medina,” Mamdani argued. “Surah Al-Nahl 1642 tells us, ‘As for those who immigrated in the cause of Allah after being persecuted, we will surely bless them with a good home in this world.’ Or as the Prophet Muhammad said, ‘Islam began as something strange and will go back to being strange. So glad tidings to the strangers.’”
Wherever Mohammed went, he conquered and killed anyone who wouldn’t submit to him, deal with him or join his religion.
Islam is indeed built upon a “narrative of migration”. What that means is that Islam migrates and conquers. Not that it accepts migrants.
When African migrants pass through North Africa, whether in Libya or Egypt, they’re terrorized, raped, killed and abused.
Even fellow Muslims are mistreated. Arab Muslims used to routinely enslave African Muslims who went on ‘Haj’ to their ‘holy place’ of Mecca. Muslim lands are the few remaining places to function as slave states.
And while Muslims demand citizenship in Western nations, they tightly restrict it in their own countries, creating displaced populations that have never received citizenship in places like Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Children born to non-citizen fathers but to citizen mothers are routinely denied citizenship. In places like Qatar, most of the population consists of non-citizen slave laborers.
Muslims demands that we accept them and give them everything while they take everything and give nothing to others.
Here’s how African migrants are treated in Egypt, one of the ‘nicer’ places in the Arab Muslim world.
The most memorable incident in Egypt was in 2005 when some 3,000 refugees, mainly Sudanese, held a sit-in demo in front of the UNHCR building.
For three months, they called on the UNHCR to resettle them in other countries, protested against frequent harassment and imprisonment by the Egyptian police, demanded access to public schools and healthcare, and called for the right to legally work in the country.
The response of the Egyptian authorities was brutal, with some 4,000 police sent to scatter the protest.
In the end, more than 2,000 refugees were arrested and 27, including a toddler, were killed at the hands of the police.
In America, we allow the likes of Mamdani to take over. In his own Muslim countries, we have no rights at all.
But let’s close with Mamdani’s benevolent quotes from his ‘holy’ Koran.
“Surah Al-Nahl 1642 tells us, ‘As for those who immigrated in the cause of Allah after being persecuted, we will surely bless them with a good home in this world.’
The context of that is Mohammed and Islam once again cursing non-Muslims in 16:34 through 16:39. The promise is reserved for those who ’emigrated in the cause of Allah’, not to non-Muslims who don’t accept Islam. They face only death and destruction in the succeeding verses.
Mamdani is not quoting the Statue of Liberty poem here but an Islamic call to mission.
What about his quote from the Sunnah?
“Or as the Prophet Muhammad said, ‘Islam began as something strange and will go back to being strange. So glad tidings to the strangers.’”
Sounds very liberal. But who are the strangers. Here’s the part of the quote that Mamdani is deliberately leaving out.
“Worship during the time of bloodshed is like emigrating to me.” “Islam began as something strange and will go back to being strange, so glad tidings to the strangers.” It was said: “Who are the strangers?’ He said: “Strangers who have left their families and tribes.”
The strangers are converts to Islam.
Al-Sindi said in Hashiyat Ibn Majah:
“Strange” refers to the small number of its adherents. The basic meaning of ghareeb (a stranger) is being far from one’s homeland. “And will revert to being strange” refers to the small number of those who will adhere to its teachings even though its followers are many. “So give glad tidings to the strangers” means those who follow its commands. “Tooba (glad tidings)” has been interpreted as meaning Paradise or a great tree in Paradise. This shows that supporting Islam and following its commands may require leaving one’s homeland and being patient in bearing the difficulties of being a stranger, as was the case in the beginning.
Once again, Zohran Mamdani is deceptively taking verses about Islamization and making them sound universal by quoting them out of context.
How does Islam treat strangers and outsiders? New Yorkers found out on 9/11. Millions of Christians, Jews, Hindus and Buddhists have been finding out for over 1,000 years.
Islam demands every privilege, but it’s a religion of genocide that offers no mercy, only suffering, slavery and death.
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