There’s a video going viral, allegedly of Zohran Mamdani. I have no idea if it’s real or not.
As you watch the footage, you’ll notice a few “tells” that are obviously suspicious. For one thing, it’s a little on-the-nose. It’s also very short — only a few seconds long. And these are cues, in many circumstances, that you might be watching AI-generated content. As best I can tell, the footage began circulating on Facebook over the summer, and since then, no mainstream outlet has picked it up or confirmed that it’s legitimate.
But if this footage is fake or generated by artificial intelligence, then it’s convinced a lot of people. Joe Concha, who regularly appears on Fox News, reposted the footage, suggesting it was authentic. Elise Stefanik, the high-ranking member of Congress from New York, also posted the video. So have various other commentators. And as far as I know, no one has come forward with any proof — or even an official statement — stating definitively that the footage is fake.
So with that in mind, we’ll roll the tape. This is a video that purports to show Zohran Mamdani, the Muslim socialist running for mayor of New York, at a private Antifa-style event wearing a mask. Here’s what he says. Watch:
Zohran Mamdani: “We came here to remake the state in the image of our people.” pic.twitter.com/42v4KQRyhC
— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) October 20, 2025
Credit: @Bubblebathgirl/X.com
“We came here to remake the state in the image of our people” — presumably, referring to people of Africa, where Mamdani was born. That’s it. There’s no other context in this footage — which is often the biggest reason to doubt that it’s real.
If this is AI, we can expect to see many, many more videos like this one over the next months and years. There will never be another major election in this country in which AI-generated video doesn’t play some kind of role. The existence of AI won’t simply introduce a lot of fake content into the discourse. It will also lead people to doubt the legitimacy of videos that are actually authentic.
But whether the video is real or not, we can say for absolute certainty that Zohran Mamdani does indeed want to remake the city and the country in his image, and the image of his people. In fact, if you look into the data, you’ll find that New York has already been “remade” in the image of foreigners like Zohran Mamdani.
Here’s data from Patriot Polling. This is some of the most extraordinary polling you’ll ever see, although at the same time — especially if you’ve been to New York recently — it’s exactly what you’d expect.

Source: Patriot Polling
As you can see, among New Yorkers who were born in America, Andrew Cuomo has a nine-point lead in the mayor’s race over Zohran Mamdani. In total, Mamdani only has 31% of the vote when you exclude foreign-born voters. (Curtis Sliwa has 25%). So if this election were held without mass-demographic replacement, in the New York City that existed 30 years ago, it would be a blowout. Mamdani wouldn’t have made it through the primary.
But the numbers change completely when you look at a different demographic: New Yorkers who weren’t born in the United States. That includes illegal aliens, as well as so-called “naturalized citizens.” Among that demographic, Mamdani is winning the vast majority of the vote. He has 62%, compared to 24% for Cuomo and 12% for Sliwa.
So, given that Mamdani currently has something like a 90% chance of winning the election, you have to ask: How many Americans actually live in New York City? Based on these figures, it doesn’t seem like a very high number. It looks like the nerve center of our economy has been taken over by foreigners.
And by the way — that’s not surprising. Half of all global population growth now comes from Africa.

Source: World Population Prospect
You can see the trendline there. Population growth all over the world has fallen off a cliff, starting around the 1990s. Meanwhile, Africa’s population has surged.
Nigeria, by itself, currently has more births than every country in Europe, combined. Back in 1950, the opposite was true.

Source: Our World in Data
Overall, Africa has more than six times as many births as Europe every year. Pakistan has roughly as many births as all of Europe. And keep in mind, at this point, many of the births that take place in Europe are actually the children of foreigners — many of whom are so-called “asylum seekers.” In other words, the reality is even more stark than these numbers might suggest.
So if someone made that video of Mamdani with AI, they didn’t need to make a fake video to establish this point. The point is that the rest of the world is indeed remaking the United States in their image. They’re not assimilating. They’re dismantling what we have.
Mamdani himself openly admits this. He’s stated, on camera, that it’s an “illusion” that foreigners can become New Yorkers and assimilate into the city. Here’s a video that everyone agrees is real, and not AI. This is from 2019. Watch:
Footage has surfaced from 2019 where Zohran Mamdani claims it is an “illusion” that Muslims can become New Yorkers and assimilate into the city.
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) October 20, 2025
Credit: @EYakoby/X.com
First of all, that obviously didn’t happen. No one took this guy aside and asked him multiple times if he was carrying “weapons of mass destruction,” in the year 2019, in a bankruptcy court. They might have asked him if he had any weapons. But there is precisely zero chance that a security guard was seriously grilling Mamdani about dirty bombs and suitcase nukes on his way to a bankruptcy hearing. The guards probably should’ve done that, but we all know they didn’t.
But more to the point, that video is remarkable because his own anecdote about his experience after 9/11 manages to disprove the point he’s trying to make. If his anecdote is true, it means that his teacher’s very first priority after the planes hit the towers was to warn Muslim students that they might be bullied. This shows both that suicidal empathy is a longstanding problem in our culture — the emotional health of Muslims should have been the last thing on this teacher’s mind — and also that this country not only didn’t persecute Muslims after 9/11 but actually went out of its way to protect and celebrate them.
We allowed this guy to grow up in a luxury apartment building that’s reserved for Columbia faculty members. We allowed him to attend elite private schools. And for all of that effort, all we get are ungrateful brats still whining about “settler colonialism.”
He also tells us that assimilation is an “illusion” — which is the one thing he’s right about. Glad we could find some common ground. Mamdani is admitting that no amount of acceptance, welcoming, and tolerance will ever be enough for the invading hordes. And to be clear, this is the official position of Mamdani’s entire campaign, which is why Mamdani’s closest allies are saying the exact same thing.
So let’s take, for example, Mehdi Hasan, the former MSNBC host. Hasan doesn’t have an actual audience. His show was typically pulling in fewer than 40,000 viewers in the key demographic, which is much, much less than I’d get if I let the inanimate fish in the background host the show. If we just had the Fish cam on the whole time, we’d easily clear 40,000 views.
So, in lieu of attracting an audience, Mehdi Hasan has decided to spend his time attacking Americans and Christians on behalf of socialists like Zohran Mamdani.
To that end, here’s Mehdi Hasan’s latest argument:
Mehdi Hasan to American Christians: “If you can have your church bell, we can have our Islamic prayer call” pic.twitter.com/Oy1IroBqS1
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) October 21, 2025
Credit: @EndWokeness/X.com
You’re “as American as anyone else?” Really?
You’re a Muslim who was born in the UK and came to this country less than 10 years ago, in your mid-30s, to work for Al Jazeera. Is there anyone who seriously thinks that Mehdi Hasan is “American” at all, much less “as American as anyone else”?
It’s even harder to buy the idea that Mehdi Hasan is an American if you actually listen to the things he says, which no one does. So let’s review. Before he got his MSNBC contract, Hasan started out as a propagandist for Iran who told his followers that non-Muslims were “animals”. Watch:
MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan has compared non-Muslims to “animals” and homosexuals to “pedophiles” and “sexual deviants”
Hard to imagine MSNBC allowing someone on television who said similar things about a different religion — let alone giving them a show! pic.twitter.com/CGBo4suQdh
— Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) November 27, 2023
Credit: @LevineJonathan/X.com
According to Hasan, this is how Americans talk. It’s apparently as American as apple pie. This is what down-home, average blue-collar Americans say. You’ll hear it at any Fourth of July barbecue. People comparing Christians to “cattle,” and ranting about “dog-lovers” and “music-lovers” in the same breath as “pedophiles” and “people who sleep with their own mothers.” Nothing more American than that.
Apparently, it’s also as American as apple pie to berate white people — you know, the vast majority of Americans, including the people who founded this country. There wasn’t anyone with the last name “Hasan” at the constitutional convention, or fighting in the Revolutionary War. Not one single person. There were only the kinds of people that Hasan despises, even as he tries to co-opt the country they created. Hasan, of course, has made millions of dollars in this country disparaging “white men and women” — most recently after the 2024 election.

Credit: @mehdirhasan/X.com
“Good job, white men and women,” Hasan wrote, blaming them for Kamala Harris’ defeat.
So he comes to a country founded by white people, that’s mostly made up of white people, and then he attacks them — invoking their skin color in the process — for not voting the way he wanted them to vote. Imagine if I went to Uganda or Nigeria and tried something like this. Imagine if I ran for office, lost, and then wrote on social media, “Nice going, black people. You’ve really got some internalized black supremacy, don’t you?” In that scenario, how long would I last before they stoned me to death? Ten seconds? Twenty? In fact, what if I went to Hasan’s actual home country, India, ran for office, lost, and then said, “Great job, brown people. You really screwed up again.” How long would Mehdi Hasan cry about that? Would he ever stop crying, is the question?
Of course, Hasan also used to appear on television every other day, warning of the supposedly grave threat posed by “white supremacy.”
He also celebrated a plane crash in Georgia, saying, “Make American Planes Crash Again.”

Credit: @mehdirhasan/X.com
Credit: @mehdirhasan/X.com
This is the person we’re supposed to believe is as “American” as any Christian who can trace his lineage in this country going back to the Revolutionary War, who doesn’t hate white people, and who actually wants our civilization and our system of government to succeed.
This is the person who we’re supposed to take seriously, when he compares church bells to the Muslim call to prayer — which happens many times a day, starting around 5:00 AM, and sounds like this:
This is what residents of Dearborn hear 5x a day, beginning at sunrise pic.twitter.com/FApXz9UShM
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) October 5, 2025
Credit: @EndWokeness/X.com
The thing is, even if the call to prayer wasn’t so obnoxious and so obviously disruptive to the lives of everyone living nearby — in this case, it’s in Dearborn, Michigan — it still doesn’t matter. And even if church bells also rang at 5:00 AM, which they don’t, it also wouldn’t matter. There’s still a very good reason to say that, in this country, church bells are acceptable in every city, while the Muslim call to prayer is not.
And that reason is this: Christianity built this country. Islam did not — at all, in even the slightest way. Islam has nothing to do with America. If Islam had ceased to exist 300 years ago, this country would not have lost a single thing. There is not a single good thing about our country that we wouldn’t have if not for Islam. And if you doubt that, then go ahead and give me an example of the great gift that Islam gave to America. Any gift. Go ahead and name it. You can’t.
That’s why we can have our church bells. We earned them. This is our country. Not yours, Mr. Hasan. Any actual American would understand that concept very well. If you want to hear the Arabic call to prayer five times a day in every neighborhood, you can go to one of the other 50 countries in the world that are into that. (And by the way, if you want to hear church bells instead, most of those countries wouldn’t be able to accommodate you.)
When I made this point on X, Mehdi Hasan responded with this.
One in three of the slaves who built this country were Muslims. They were here long before the Walsh family arrived. You’d know that if you’d studied history but I know MAGA has an issue with studying. Oh, and I am guessing you don’t count slaves as people, or Americans.
So as you could have easily predicted, Hasan responded to my post with layers upon layers of lies. Delusion heaped on top of delusion.
For one thing, this country was not “built by slaves,” much less the handful of Muslim slaves owned by the 2% of Americans who ever had slaves to begin with. The Industrial Revolution is what made this country wealthy, and it was spurred by the invention of technologies like the steam engine and coke blast furnace — not the cotton trade or the slave trade. In fact, cotton exports accounted for roughly 5% of the overall GDP of the United States prior to the Civil War. That’s it. There’s a reason we became a much, much richer country once we abolished slavery. Not only did slavery not build the country, it actually held it back, if anything. And again: if the handful of Muslims picking cotton in the fields had never been here, it would have had literally no impact on the country at all.
The vast majority of infrastructure and industry in this country was built by the labor of free men. Every Muslim country on the planet had slavery for exponentially longer — and relied on it exponentially more — than the United States ever did. Which is why Western countries had to shut down the Arab slave trade by force. Look up the “Africa Squadron” sometime. We had a whole unit of the U.S. Navy, from 1843 to 1861, that was devoted to suppressing the slave trade along the coast of West Africa. The Arabs clung to slavery like a fat kid holding a donut. They refused to let it go. It was such an integral part of their culture — and still is, in some Arab countries.
And by the way, the slave trade in Africa was extremely wide-ranging and global in nature. This is one of those stories that isn’t taught in school. But it’s absolutely true.
In the 17th century, Barbary pirates from North Africa raided several towns in Iceland. Yes, Iceland. They went to Ireland too.

Credit: Aggravating-Walk-309/Reddit
Thousands of people were captured, transported to North Africa, and sold into slavery in places like Algiers. Many of the slaves died. Actually, by some estimates, more than a million European Christians were enslaved by Barbary pirates and slave drivers from the 16th century to the 18th century.
So would Mehdi Hasan say that white Christian slaves “built North Africa”? Would he say that they “built the Middle East”? Why not? Answer that, Mehdi: Did the one million white slaves build the Arab world? If a few Muslims in the cotton fields built America, what can we say about the one million whites enslaved by Muslims in their countries? What do you think, Mehdi?
This is a rhetorical question, of course. Mehdi Hasan is a British Muslim who came here less than ten years ago, so I don’t expect him to know anything about my country. And he doesn’t. He now lives off of the fruits of the labor done by the people he despises. He should not have been allowed into this country. From what I can tell, he has nothing to offer the country but demands and accusations. He seems as clueless as his nonexistent audience would suggest.
Zohran Mamdani, by contrast, does have an audience. He has a very, very big audience. The mass of foreigners who have been imported into this country is his base, and they are rabidly loyal at this point. These are people who are as “American” as he is. And very soon, they will control the nerve center of the entire U.S. economy. Barring a miracle, foreigners who despise white people, who mock Christianity, and who don’t understand history — or pretend not to understand it — will assume full control of New York City.
We all know what they’ll do with that power. They will turn New York into yet another dysfunctional, unrecognizable ghetto, not unlike Somalia, or Minneapolis, or Dearborn. And at that point — assuming any Americans are left in New York — they will leave. Americans will be forced to flee, as they’ve been forced to flee from so many other centerpieces of diversity over the last few generations. The real question now — and it’s the Trump administration’s job to answer this question — is whether these Americans will have anywhere to go. No priority is more urgent than this. Once the United States is no longer a sanctuary for Americans and for Christians, it ceases to exist. Mehdi Hasan understands that. So does Zohran Mamdani. Sometime very soon — ideally before New Yorkers head to the polls in November — every American in this country needs to understand that, as well.