Like radical communist Islamist Zohran Mamdani's victory in the New York City mayoral race, Ghazala Firdous Hashmi won the election for Virginia's lieutenant governor in November. Both will take their respective offices next month.
The Council of American Islamic Relations (CAIR), an Islamic supremacy organization that has supported terrorism, boasts that more than three dozen of 76 Muslim candidates saw victories in their off-year elections last month.
They believe Mamdani's win, which came just 24 years after nearly 3,000 New Yorkers died in the Islamic terror attack of 9-11, has prompted a surge of Muslims interested in running next year.
Christian apologist and culture expert Dr. Alex McFarland thinks that should concern everyone.
"The jihadists and those that are working for the fall of the U.S. Constitution and the imposition of Sharia law in the United States, they are piece by piece, incrementally building their infrastructure," he tells AFN.
Those unable or unwilling to recognize what is going on, he says, are being very naïve.
"This is absolutely a threat to our Constitution," McFarland asserts. "This is not about someone sitting in a position making decisions; this is about the Islamic worldview and the Islamic culture supplanting constitutional America."
The Hill notes that an Arab and Muslim American co-founder of the "Uncommitted" movement, which urged Democrats to cast 2024 protest votes over the Israel-Hamas war, has launched a bid for state office in Michigan. The first Muslim woman to win elected office in North Carolina has also jumped into the race to represent her state in Congress. They join Abdul El-Sayed, who has been vying for Michigan's open Senate seat, as the most high-profile Muslim candidates running next year.
CAIR calls the momentum "the Mamdani effect."
