The triumph — for now — of New York’s Muslim socialist mayor

If the polls are right, New York City is about to elect Zohran Mamdani as its next mayor. An avowed socialist, he’s riding a wave of “free stuff” politics to victory. Mamdani also describes himself as a proud Muslim who says his faith will no longer “ hide in the shadows ” of American life.

It’s hard to know what he means. Mosques exist in every major city. Muslims worship freely under the same First Amendment protections as everyone else. What Mamdani seems to want isn’t tolerance but cultural submission — not coexistence, but acceptance. To dissent from his worldview, he insists, is “Islamophobia.”

The choice remains what it has always been: guilt or grace, grievance or truth.

That accusation follows the left’s familiar playbook: disagreement equals bigotry. Americans, however, don’