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Folks,
As you are well aware by now, I am no war hawk. I am also not particularly inclined to proscribe speech, though in recent years I have become minded to operate on a "what's good for the goose is good for the gander," basis.
People like you and I have been so heavily maligned, called extremists, shadow-banned, etc by the political left that it's also amusing to see that same centrist, globalist establishment now watch its halal lunch get eaten by the likes of Zohran Mamdani in New York.
It's also fun to watch the likes of 'Bob Vylan' (yeah, I don't know, either) have their visas revoked for their cringey Glastonbury set this weekend.
Well, it would be amusing were it not so bloody terrifying.
And no, I don't think Mamdani the man is particularly scary. First of all, he looks like my older brother, and as a child I would routinely pick my older brother up and throw him across the room. Boys will be boys.
What I am fearful of, however, is everything I wrote in my bestseller, No Go Zones (2017), coming to pass. This has been especially underscored by the fact that this week, one of Mamdani's spiritual leaders issued a fatwa against President Donald J. Trump.
It's nothing new that Iran has been trying to assassinate President Trump. We know this to be true. But the formalization of a fatwa, recently lampooned by none other than Trump-hater Larry David, has long-standing foreign policy implications, and, thanks to people like Mamdani, domestic ones too.
Not a lot of people know this, but the Grand Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi, who issued this weekend's fatwa on Trump, is actually one of the most senior political leaders in Twelver (Shia) Islam.
That is New York hopeful Zohran Mamdani's personal religious sect.
Sorry to have to be so explicit, but some people will take this the wrong way: I'm not saying Mamdani will personally try to assassinate Trump.
What I am saying, however, is that he clearly emanates from and identifies with a political-religious sect that seeks the assassination of the U.S. President.
The idea that such a man could hold senior office in the United States, let alone should even be a citizen, is case-in-point of decades of failed mass migration policies.
As I noted last week, Mamdani has lived in America since 1999, but didn't bother to obtain U.S. citizenship until 2018, when he decided he wanted to run for office because of Gaza (his confession).
So add President Trump to this list: Salman Rushdie, the entire Baha'i religious community, Hitoshi Igarashi, Ettore Caprioli, William Nygaard, Rafiq Tagi, Shanin Najafi, and more. Most of whom earned their fatwas by publishing or translating The Satanic Verses, decades ago.
Remember, Rushdie was recently attacked and nearly killed in New York, some 33 years after his fatwa was first issued. It was not the first attempt on his life. His assailant? Hadi Matar, a California-born Lebanese man living in New Jersey, radicalized by Hezbollah during a trip to his motherland in 2018.
Despite Larry David's satire, fatwas are nothing to laugh about.
"It is necessary for all Muslims around the world to make these enemies regret their words and mistakes," Ayatollah Shirazi said this weekend.
And with the likes of Thomas Crooks and Ryan Routh coming so close to killing Trump during the campaign, I have no doubt the U.S. Secret Service will need to triple if not quadruple their efforts in defending the President of the United States from here on out.
That protection shouldn’t end with his term. Congress should immediately legislate lifetime security for President Trump—before the fatwas turn fatal.
As ever, Pulse+ members can let me know their thoughts in our Discord chat channel, or in the members-only comments section on The National Pulse.
Sincerely,
Raheem
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