They Don't Hate Mamdani Because he's a Muslim Radical. They Hate him Because he's a Muslim Normal
For clarity, simplicity and consistency, racists, white supremacists and Zionists love their enemies prominently stereotypical
Mamdani haters are doing something a little subtler than your everyday Muslim-bashing and racial fearmongering
Take Hamas, for instance. The entire ‘Judeo-Christian’ West now self-hospitalizes every time the name is but mentioned (oh, poor, delicate souls!), but for many years, Israel had an excellent relationship with that particular movement of ominous bearded Middle Eastern men. Netanyahu famously helped Hamas thrive in Gaza, making sure Qatari cash flowed regularly into the Gaza Strip. As early as the 1980s, Israel helped Hamas take root in Gaza as a way to counter the influence of the secular PLO.
And the US pretends to hate and fear Muslims and Arabs, but American officials and military brass feel extremely comfortable socializing with Gulf monarchists, security establishments and billionaires, had a defining role in the establishment and maintenance of Al Quaida in Afghanistan, and seems to be on very good terms with Syria’s ISIS President, to name but a few examples of longstanding deep ties between the US and Islamic terror groups.
Western powers, for decades and centuries, foster radical Islamic movements throughout the Middle East while encouraging Islamophobia at home.
There is no contradiction here. Let me explain.
There are at least two strategic benefits to encouraging Islamic fundamentalism around the world. First, by promoting violent interpretations of Islam, the West gets to sabotage, destabilize, and stifle the natural progress of Muslim societies. For a civilization whose very core incorporates domination and exploitation, that’s a huge achievement. A more ‘Muslim‘ and broken-up Libya (or Afghanistan, or Iraq, or Syria - you get the picture) is much more beneficial for the vampirical West than a whole and more moderate, coherent, and political one.
But the other reason why the West loves extra-Muslim Muslims is perhaps even more sinister: those types help to keep racist and supremacist stereotypes alive, and make the job of social and political division much more straightforward.
Israel, an entrepreneurial powerhouse of racial hatred, has been using this logic forever. Strengthening Hamas while putting Israelis in an Islam-inspired state of constant hysteria is just one side of the equation. The other is taking special care to decimate and eliminate every potentially influential secular and liberal Palestinian voice.
That’s why they murdered Refaat Alareer and Ghassan Kanafani (among hundreds of others). That’s why Israel always went after Palestinian poets, intellectuals and scholars: a Palestinian society where figures like these play a political role puts the entire colonial political structure at risk: human animals must be on the other side of every racist colonial fence, to keep Western popolation voluntarily locked up in a prison propogandized as a white paradise.
Maybe now you can better see why Zohran Mamdani is such a menace.
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I discovered Zohran Mamdani just a few weeks ago, on Twitter. I fell for him immediately. He has the clear marks of an excellent brown and Islamic (or at least Islamic-inspired) upbringing: calm, humility, a very sharpened sense of political criticism, but one rooted in a quest for harmony, rather than a revolution. He is, in short, everything white racists, white supremacists, and Zionists told us Muslims are definitely not.
But it gets even worse: Mamdani comes from an elitist family; he’s bohemian and cosmopolitan and has artistic, intellectual New York parents - and he’s not a Jew, but a brown Muslim.
How is a society expected to maintain a racial divide with such elusive, compartmentalization-rejecting types? This is un-American!
From a white Jewish supremacist point of view, I can totally get the panic: the barbarians are taking over their city, while pretending to be them.
As an Arab Jew with artistic and intellectual tendencies who grew up under white Jewish Ashkenazi supremacism, I cannot help but chuckle when I see the Zionist reaction to Mamdani. Wallahi, I recognize a brother when I see one.
OMG! This guy canNOT be a Muslim! How do I know? Because he's not a terrorist, that's how I know. There are no level-headed, cosmopolitan Muslims. It's simply a contradiction in terms. And how do I know that? Because it's what the U.S. media has told me for decades. Why would I question that?
Guy is literally an atheist, a cultural muslim.
This isn't new from the crowd that illogically claims there is Islamist Marxism, Arab Nazism, Anarcho-Capitalism.
The fact that they think of any scare words and just stick them together without any logic, shows how disingenuous they are.
It could almost be a Madlib.
"He is a homosexual CCCP Islamist Klansman Trostskyite!"
They unironically call people things like that.
The reactionaries and establishment liberals have the self awareness of a Jello mold.