Zohran Mamdani announced this Friday a measure aimed at restricting the action of the federal agency ICE in New York. After controversial immigration enforcement operations in several cities, the left-wing mayor signed an order now requiring a court warrant for agents to enter municipal property, such as schools, hospitals or shelters.
“I am signing an executive order that will ensure our city protects not only our fellow immigrant New Yorkers, but all New Yorkers, from immigration policy abuses.”he declares. One way to show that the ICE “shall not enter New York City property without a court warrant. This includes our schools, our accommodation centers, our hospitals and our parking lots.”
“The Prophet Muhammad was also a foreigner”
During his speech, the Muslim councilor however made a reference which did not fail to be commented on. “I view my own faith, Islam, as a religion based on a migration narrative”he says, referring to “History of the Hegira” Who “recalls that the Prophet Muhammad was also a foreigner, who fled Mecca and was welcomed in Medina”. Before continuing by citing the “Surah An-Nahl 1642”: “As for those who emigrated in the cause of Allah after being persecuted, we will certainly grant them a good abode in this world. »
If many Americans were offended by this reference in the city hit by the Islamist attacks of September 11, 2001, reactions also emerged in Europe, particularly in France. “The mayor of New York justifies his migration policy by invoking the Hegira, the moment when Mohammed went to Medina, formed a state and an army, and began a career as a bandit and cutthroat. Even Houellebecq would not have dared”castigates the essayist Ferghane Azihari.
“This is what Western Islamic mayors dream of doing everywhere”also comments Jean Messiha. “Mamdani was elected by disguising himself as a communist. Little by little he takes off his mother-grandmother costume and shows what he is: a Brotherhood (or legalist Islamist)”finally accuses the anthropologist Florence Bergeaud-Blackler on X.
