From Fox News: In late September 2017, Palestinian American activist Linda Sarsour, once the darling of the Women’s March and the self-declared face of the “resistance” against Donald Trump, was facing mounting criticism for antisemitic remarks and her embrace of extremist views.
But, beaming in a photograph taken on a city sidewalk, Sarsour appeared unfazed, her iconic fist pumped in the air as she knelt shoulder-to-shoulder with campaign volunteers for City Council candidate Khader El-Yateem. The photo was posted by El-Yateem on the Facebook page he used to promote his campaign, which he lost, but among the smiling faces was a young organizer named Zohran Mamdani.
That photo would mark the start of a carefully constructed political project that, in less than a decade, would propel a now-34-year-old socialist newcomer to the precipice of running America’s largest city – even while campaigning with radical imams, some of whom have supported terrorists and terrorist financiers.
A Fox Digital investigation reveals that Mamdani’s rise was no accident. It was engineered.
The report explains a major part of the power behind Mamdani’s surge to the top is a “tight inner circle” of about 110 Muslim and socialist organizations who have been working with 76 Democratic Party affiliates, allied groups and unions.
Two primary groups in the network are Sarsour’s MPower organization, and another collection of groups she works closely with, called Emgage.
As for the funding behind it, Fox News notes that far-left billionaire George Soros’ Open Society philanthropies have given MPower and Emgage nearly $2.5 million in recent years.
While Mamdani claims that he cares about New York City, the report reveals the true agenda, noting he teamed up with Sarsour in 2018 – the same year he became a U.S. citizen – and joined an effort to “help build Muslim power.”
In 2018, Mamdani formally entered Sarsour’s orbit through the Muslim Democratic Club of New York, an organization she co-founded in 2013 to mobilize Muslim voters and elect progressive Democrats to local office. The Muslim Democratic Club of New York served as both incubator and amplifier for Sarsour’s political brand, one that fused progressive politics with an explicitly Islamist social identity. By December 2018, Mamdani joined the board, in an announcement in which the group said, “Help build Muslim power across the city with us!”
Fox News further reports:
MPower and Emgage have been part of a tight inner circle of 30 ethnic and religious groups, that also includes CAIR Action, the 501(c)(4) political wing of the 501(c)(3) Council on American-Islamic Relations nonprofit, the Islamic Circle of North America,” “Muslim Action Coalition,” Yemeni American Merchants Associations Inc., the “Bangladeshi American Advocacy Group” and “Desis Rising Up and Moving.” They have pumped up Mamdani’s campaign with social media campaigns, canvassing, voters and buzz.
Altogether, they have annual revenues of about $24 million, and they have worked to promote Mamdani’s campaign with endorsements, fund-raising, social media campaigns and canvassing.
The result: a carefully constructed political career that mainstreams the socialist goals long embraced by Sarsour and fellow members of the Democratic Socialists of America.
However, the Muslim and socialist groups aren’t just concentrating on New York City. They are using the same tactics in other races across the nation, including California, Michigan, Minnesota, Texas, Virginia and other states.
The banner image on Sarsour’s X profile includes a group of Muslim people holding signs which read, “Midterms,” “My Muslim Vote,” and “My Muslim Vote Counts.”
READ THE ENTIRE, CHILLING REPORT from Fox News.
Inside the Mamdani Machine: Soros cash, socialists and radical imams engineered Zohran Mamdani’s path to power https://t.co/jaDEOqKa3j
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