The Islamization
of America

Twenty-five years ago, nineteen men turned two towers into a tomb. 2,977 people died. The country swore it would never forget.

It forgot.

Former Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador taught me that politics is time and culture. I have rarely seen it as clearly as here. Political Islam understood both nearly a century ago: it is in no hurry, it plays in decades, and it fights first not for government but for culture. Forgetting is its best ally.

In November 2023, thousands of young Americans shared on TikTok the letter Osama bin Laden wrote to justify the attack. They read it aloud, they commented on it in amazement, some said it had opened their eyes. TikTok had to block the hashtag. A British newspaper deleted the transcript from its site. In September of this year, a Buckley Institute survey found that 22 percent of American college students agree with the phrase "America deserved 9/11". An Ipsos poll found that nearly half of adults call September 11 the most important event of their lifetime. Among those under 35, only one in three.

And on September 11, 2026, the twenty-fifth anniversary, among those who stood before the names cast in bronze at Ground Zero was Mayor Zohran Mamdani. He took his oath of office on a Quran. Rudy Giuliani and George Pataki, the two men who governed the city and the state that Tuesday, objected to his being there.

Now the question making the rounds in Washington, put bluntly. What is wrong with a Muslim winning an election in the United States and reaching Congress or the Senate? How is it different from a Buddhist winning?

The short answer is that faith is not the problem. The problem is something else that travels with it and that almost no one dares to name.