Rotten Apple

Guest article by Andy Mac

I always remember where I was when I heard the news that the World Trade Center had been attacked back in September 2001. It was a bright Tuesday afternoon, and I had been ill in bed since the Sunday with a bout of food poisoning. A concerned relative phoned me to enquire after my well-being and, whilst in the middle of asking me if I needed anything bringing from the supermarket, suddenly went quiet. I asked her what was the matter and she replied a newsflash had appeared on her TV screen covering an “incident of a plane hitting a skyscraper in New York City.” She asked me if I was going to watch the situation unfold, but convinced this was an incident no more serious than the crash into the Empire State Building in 1945, I declined and went back to bed. It was only when I woke a few hours later and went downstairs to get an update that I became fully aware of the enormity of what I’d slept through. Since that time, I’ve been lucky enough to visit New York twice, and experience the poignancy reading the names of many of those killed at Ground Zero.

It therefore puzzles and disappoints me in equal measure how the largest city in North America can go from losing over 2,700 people in what remains the biggest terror attack in US history, to a place that can vote for an Islamic radical to be its next Mayor…and all within the space of a generation. I read a good deal about Zohran Mamdani whilst I was in America back in June of this year. During our stay, Fox News got hold of an interview by Mamdani in which he expressed a desire to implement higher property taxes for ‘richer and whiter neighbourhoods’. The New York Post ran with the story shortly afterwards (https://nypost.com/2025/06/27/us-news/socialist-nyc-mayoral-contender-zohran-mamdani-wants-to-hike-property-taxes-for-richer-and-whiter-neighborhoods/). It says much about the double-standards in our world today that a candidate for the most powerful Mayoralty in the USA can espouse a policy in such racist (anti-white) terms, and not be censured by those who’d run a marathon to castigate someone if the situation was reversed. However, it is not just his desire to squeeze the rich until their eyes bleed (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/zohran-mamdani-says-dont-think-billionaires-rcna215821), or his avowed pride in being described as a ‘socialist’ (something once unthinkable in American political culture), it is also his strong assertion of his Islamic background. Like most of the West, the United States has seen its Muslim population grow significantly over the past quarter-century. In the Census of 2020, the Muslim population of America was estimated at 4.5 million. There are currently 2,771 masjids in the US and about 300 Islamic schools serving more than 50,000 students. Admittedly, the proportion of Muslims in the overall US population is less than it is in the UK or Europe. Even so, you don’t have to go very far to see how its imprint is starting to leave a mark on American society (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/17/hamtramck-michigan-muslim-council-lgbtq-pride-flags-banned.)

From January 1st, 2026, the two most powerful and influential cities on the planet (London and New York) will be run by Muslim men whose ancestral heritage is not that of the West. That bothers me. Not only for the (too numerous to mention) stories of decay that litter their intended or trodden political paths, but also because of the fact their elevation to power points to rapidly-changing demographics in major Western cities that are simply not replicated in the opposite direction. You wouldn’t, for example, expect to travel to Jakarta and read about that city’s Mayor being called ‘Dave Simpson’ whose parents came from Sidcup! It would be beyond the realms of credibility to discover the Emir of Abu Dhabi was, in fact, a bloke named ‘Michael Jones’ who was born on Guildhall Road in Northampton. Why is that? Because few countries outside the West are befuddled by the curse of of what academic writer Dr Gad Saad calls ‘Suicidal Empathy’: A phenomenon rooted in liberal guilt complex that has, inter alia, permitted millions of fundamentally incompatible people to settle across Europe, Australasia and North America to the detriment of the respective established populations. Both Sadiq Khan in London and now Zohran Mamdani in New York are products of that very phenomenon, with the policies they espouse having the intended effect of making life distinctly unpleasant for anyone who doesn’t subscribe to their worldview.

As New York is now, Britain was thirty years ago. As Britain is now, New York will be in 2055. The Big Apple, once known as a patchwork of Polish, Irish, Jewish, African-American, English, Hispanic and Italian people will start to change as a result of what Mamdani has in store for it. It will be insidious at first: A shiny new gigantic mosque here; demands for gender segregation in certain schools there. Then, a few years down the line, it will be the emergence of ‘no-go areas’ for people not of the Islamic creed. How do I know this? Because the appalling scenes in Birmingham the other night – redolent of the ‘Juden Verboten’ of 1930s Germany – provide a window to the future as to what happens when you have too much Islam in a community, with its handmaidens embedded in civic society, government and, yes, the Monarchy. That religion is now such a pain in the posterior, it is advisable to carry a tube of Anusol whenever you’re unlucky enough to find yourself in one of ‘their areas’. With Mamdani pledging to turn New York into a ‘Sanctuary City’ (code for a dumping ground for the world’s strays and undesirables), we can expect to see monumental demographic change occurring at speed over the next how many years his faithful voters wish him to serve.

Demography is destiny. It’s just over 30 years since I left London to return home, and I can honestly say the place is unrecognisable from what it was in the 1980s and early 1990s – and not for the better, either! New York is about to become the latest place to discover that the more you empower Islam, the less cohesion results. Buckle up, it’s going to be a bumpy ride.