The Sheep Whistler
The slaughterhouse is just around the corner
By guest columnist Francesco Rizzuto
THE DOG SHEEP WHISTLER was the first title that came to mind when approaching the keyboard this morning. Perhaps readers can suggest a better one. But please be respectful.
You know about whom we speak.
A professional dog whistler has won the Democratic Party primary in New York City, home to not only the Western world’s largest Jewish population outside Israel but also the largest Italian population outside Italy. Unknown to most outsiders, there is a huge cultural overlap of these seemingly distinct ethnic groups that have more in common than they have differences.
Both groups are products of a diaspora, the Jews driven out of Europe by widespread anti-Semitism, endless pogroms, and the Holocaust. Fully half the population of Sicily and Italy (20 million) fled the island during the late 19th and early 20th century, the result of a government that failed to provide the basic social contract, widespread hunger, and out of control crime, conditions exacerbated by the Catholic Church’s firm opposition to any form of democratic governance.
If I had to cast my vote for mayor of the world’s most vibrant city on the strength of the candidate’s smile, I’d select the dude on the left. That’s how today’s ideologized youth, as well as those who think they will get free bus rides and continue to suck the teat of a collapsing social assistance network, will vote. Zohran Mamdani will become NYC’s next mayor on a platform of unachievable, empty promises.
That’s how sheeples think and vote. They go for the con artist with the broadest smile.
But, if I had any sense of history, or was at all concerned about the survival of an increasingly fragile democracy that my own immigrant antecedents had a huge hand in creating, I’d hold my nose and vote for the dude on the right.
Before fleeing this page, please let me explain
Family is everything. Those without families have nothing.
I’ll hand it to Zohran Mamdani that he indeed has family, most of whom have come out in favour of global intifada (i.e., jihad), which, by definition, mandates the dismantling of the American and all other democracies in the world and their replacement with a caliphate. I won’t quote all the relevant chapters and verses of the Quran, hadiths, and safirs that call for the submission or death of all non-Muslims and destruction of the nation state. You can Google it yourselves. The important point is that Mamdani’s first allegiance will always be to his religion (Islam), not to the U.S. Constitution.
Why? Because allegiance to any system of governance outside Islam constitutes apostasy and therefore merits death at the hands of his coreligionists. More on that later.
As the election of Representatives Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Michigan) to Congress has already proven, Islamists spout a message of universal tolerance until taking their seat in the House, then change their tune to align with that of their constituent coreligionists, calling for the erasure of the state of Israel and the annihilation of all Jews in the world. Omar had the nerve to proclaim the bloody-handed president of Somalia, a so-called “shit hole country” if there ever was one, “Our President,” while celebrating the wrong Independence Day.
But there is a reason why wannabe leaders like Mamdani, Omar, Tlaib and many others get away with their shameless shell game without any qualms of conscience. It’s because they have no conscience, while the West’s latest generation of voters is wracked by too much conscience (i.e., manufactured guilt).
“Conscience” is a uniquely Christian concept rooted in the writings of Aristotle and later those of Thomas Aquinas, neither of whom figure into the Islamic pantheon of prophets, which is to say that most Christians have a moral compass while the pious Muslim has none.
Every Muslim, under pain of execution, is compelled to blindly follow his leader (the Prophet Muhammed and his local imam) straight to the nearest slaughterhouse, which is usually right around the corner. Insubordination is equated with apostasy and punishable by death. Blind submission to authority and the pronounced absence of a moral compass is key to the spectacular success of ISIS, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, Iranian mullahs, and other Islamic fundamentalist terror groups calling for global intifada.
Wannabe NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani celebrates this “global intifada” which means nothing less than worldwide jihad, the killing of all non-Muslims, destruction of the nation state, and imposition of a trans-national caliphate. How progressive is that?
Even the petro-dollar rich UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and other so-called moderate Muslim regimes no longer buy into that program. Meanwhile, halfway around the globe, Mamdani is dog whistling to Americans in general, and New Yorkers in particular, coaxing them toward a future that everyone, including moderate Muslims, is guaranteed to regret.
Mamdani has compared the intifada inside Western host countries (a campaign of sword attacks, stabbings, suicide bombings, shootings, rapes, and driving vehicles into crowds, not to mention aircraft hijackings) with the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. His skewed rhetoric has been repeatedly condemned by reputable historians, Jewish memorial institutions, Holocaust victims, and WWII veterans; nonetheless, a generation raised on Instagram and TikTok has swallowed this nonsense holus bolus. Sooner or later, they will choke on it.
And so, the progressive Left cheers him on.
Why not just root out their tattered, pre-911 Al-Queda flags from the attic and start waving them? I mean, a Muslim mayor only 25 years after a ruthless, in-your-face attack on the most iconic of American monuments that murdered 2,977 innocent citizens? The Founding Fathers (and Mothers) must be rolling in their graves.
“Arabic Islam is the version being promoted in mosques, schools, and media outlets across Europe and North America. It is the Islam that carries not just a faith, but an ancient memory of conquest, of zero-sum struggle, of civilizational replacement.
The West imported people and got an ideology instead. It thought it was offering asylum to refugees; it was offering a stage to an ancient ambition.” - Dan Burmawi
Let’s be objective and consider Mamdani’s platform
Okay, so being tolerant people, even in the face of intolerance, let’s consider what Zohran Mamdani represents. Let’s also recall that neither Ilhan Omar nor Rashida Tlaib called for global intifada before being elected to Congress.
First, most Muslims modify the severity of their belief system and tone down the rhetoric after migrating to Western countries. They do this in order to survive. But the dictates of the Quran remain a pressure point, directing them like the neck directs the head in the direction it wants to go, a poison simmering on the back burner.
Jews and Italians didn’t need to don any masks. Neither Judaism nor Christianity ever demanded the dismantling of democracies or the demise of the nation state. They came here to build, to celebrate liberty and justice for all, not to suck up resources and destroy the very system of governance that so generously offered them shelter.
If compelled to choose, Muslims will choose the authoritarianism coded into their faith over human rights and freedoms, in the same way that humans of every religion and political stripe get on side with whatever appears to be the winning team in any given struggle. The emergence of Nazism in Germany and Fascism in Spain and Italy attest to that process. It’s why the slaughterhouse never runs short of feedstock.
Unlike most Jewish and Italian Americans, Mamdani’s family are recent arrivals who contributed nothing to building America. They did not fight America’s wars as our parents and grandparents did (my cousin was killed in air combat over the Pacific in 1944, my father MIA in France in early 1945). We paid our collective dues. The Mamdanis, like all their recently arrived coreligionists, contributed nothing. They came for the benefits.
But hey. The past is the past, right?
Let’s look at what this wannabe mayor proposes, the gifts he plans to bestow to lure sheeple into the holding pen before the Halal butcher takes over.
Free public transportation and defund the police
It’s easy to see through this one. If you’ve ever experienced the NYC subway network or used any portion of its transit system, you know it’s a risky way to travel. The subway is where one goes to get mugged.
Now imagine making an already treacherous transit system free. Then defunding the police. Defunding the police is what Mamdani has advocated. I’m not making this up. He announced it in a dog whistle louder than a NY harbour foghorn.
I don’t idolize the police any more than the next guy with a Latin-sounding name but WTF. I’ll take a taxi ride and a cop on every corner instead, thank you very much. But that’s not what he’s offering. And where is the money to operate and maintain this free transit system expected to come from? Oh, yeah. Tax the rich.
Here’s another dog whistle directed at the terminally ignorant who think the state owes them a living for being, well, for being a self-appointed victim? a person of color (other than white)? substance addicted? a convicted felon? illiterate? fatherless? a sex trade worker? a welfare mother with five kids each by a different sire? an undocumented migrant? a graduate of Columbia University?
I could go on but WTF. None of these potential voters built this country. My family did. And we’re not falling for the red herring of free bus rides.
Government-run grocery stores
We’ve seen what mall culture and the big box stores have done to the small economy. “Mom & Pop” grocery stores and local green grocers are disappearing faster than snow on water. This is what wannabe mayor Mamdani is proposing, to put the finishing touches on the destruction of small business.
The demise of small business has contributed to the decay of small town life across the continent. America is no longer a nation of family farms and vibrant small town businesses servicing them. It is a nation characterized by agribusiness, Wallmart and Target, and everything imported from China.
City governments are not in the business of commercial food distribution, neither does Mamdani’s crowd have any qualifications or experience in that industry. The mere cost of buying into the food industry is absurdly prohibitive for a city already on the cusp of bankruptcy.
For the folks who think credit cards are money and live on food stamps, government-run grocery stores equate with “free groceries.” Go down to any supermarket in the more economically challenged “barrios” of any of America’s major cities to see what’s in their shopping carts: alcohol, sugar-laden soft drinks, white bread, pastries, snack foods, candy. That’s what they’re feeding the kids. Now go ahead, make the stuff free.
Perhaps there’s a hidden agenda. Poison the enemy slowly. Let the junk food diet weaken him. It makes dealing the death blow so much easier. If you don’t think this is Mamdani’s intention, then look at the company he keeps: Nerdeen Kiswani who hijacked two aircraft, incites violence against Jews, and screams for the erasure of Israel; Mohamed El-Kurd who celebrated the October 7 massacres; and Twitch streamer Sneako, misogynist and anti-Semite par excellence.
But hey. If you think that wannabe Mayor Mamdani will hand out oodles of free tacos and cases of chilled Budweiser, then don’t be disappointed when he throws you a moldy dog biscuit instead.
Don’t say we didn’t warn you.
Tax the Rich (NOT)
The über-rich - that is, the elitist one percent who own and control 42 percent of America’s wealth - will likely vote for Mamdani for a complex of reasons but mostly because they are immune to whatever form of government is in power at any given time in any given place.
Financial analysts and tax consultants are already raising the alarm, not on behalf of the one percenters but for those who actually work for a living, employed by private businesses and corporations that bear the lion’s share of taxation in New York City. NYC is fiscally unstable and teeters on the brink of financial ruin, while depending heavily on the loyalty, tolerance, and largess of its native business community. This middle-business strata contributes a disproportionate share of the city’s operating expenses, including its massive social safety net. In other words, it carries millions of the city’s deadbeats on its shoulders.
Medium and large corporations domiciled in NYC are already planning their moves to Florida should Zohran Mamdani become mayor.
Freeze the Rents (NOT)
The elite and newly gentrified aren’t worried about rent hikes because their income normally rises with the cost of living. That’s been so throughout human history. It’s the middle and lower income classes who struggle when rent and food costs spike while their incomes remain static.
The elite aren’t seduced by the offer of free bus rides. They can afford to indulge their guilt complexes in the luxury of anti-establishment, social warrior cosplay because they are above the establishment. Like a hobbyist builds intricate model sailing ships, they have never faced a hurricane-force gale mid-ocean and likely never will. They live their political lives in a parallel, online universe, subsisting on organic tofu and overpriced cinnamon lattes with a cocaine chaser.
Rent increases? Heck, they own the entire building and benefit from inflation. Rent freezes? No landlord takes that seriously because, like every inconvenience, there’s always a workaround.
What Mamdani has never mentioned is the scourge of Airbnb that is massively removing affordable housing from the local rentals market and selling it at a premium to tourists. Like most cities with access by discount airlines, NYC is over-touristed and cannot support more pressure on its aging infrastructure. The needs of its residents are being sidelined in the shark fest around tourist spending. While NYC’s current administration has taken some tentative measures to control the tourist rental market, it isn’t nearly enough. Agents such as Airbnb are impacting not just NYC housing, but turning entire communities into seasonal ghost towns, driving out ordinary people and their once viable businesses.
The real explanation for skyrocketing rent and property prices in North America’s major cities is that we have allowed foreigners to arrive with suitcases filled with cash then laundered it through our banking system and real estate market. Nowhere is this more blatant than in Canada where the country’s largest bank, TD Waterhouse, recently paid a $200 million fine imposed by a U.S. court for money laundering. They paid the fine and smiled. The staggering amount of the fine - an unimaginable fortune for most citizens - didn’t faze them in the least.
A promise to freeze rents is just another red herring. Don’t fall for it.
Free Childcare (NOT)
Again, where’s the money going to come from?
In an economy where both parents are forced to work just to put food on the table, the answer is not free childcare. The questions that precede the answer are why did we outsource all those manufacturing jobs to China and the Third World? Why do the rich get richer while the poor get poorer? If we can afford free childcare, then why can’t we afford quality education? The list is practically endless but the conclusion is always the same: we f*<ked up.
Our parents’ generation managed to support medium and large families on a single tradesman’s income. Why is that no longer possible?
Zohran Mamdani is offering handouts that only suckers are stupid enough to accept.
“It’s morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.” - W.C. Fields
Now, how American is that?
Defund the Police (NOT)
When Pontius Pilot asked the crowd what they wanted him to do with Jesus, the rabble shouted “Crucify him!” When Joe Biden asked the crowd what they wanted after the death of George Floyd, the rabble shouted “Defund the police.” He did the exact opposite.
Okay, so let’s take this apart.
The mayor of New York is effectively the city’s top cop. Given current levels of social unrest, does anyone believe he’s going to cut his own security detail to save money? Unlikely.
A 2024 NYPD report asserted that over 60% of hate crimes in the city were directed against Jews, while Jewish New Yorkers make up only 12% of the total population. When Mamdani plays the defund-the-police card, what he’s really saying is that since the Quran mandates the annihilation of all Jews in the world, who cares how it’s accomplished? Reduce already inadequate police protection and what do you think happens?
Clever (NOT).
A campaigning Joe Biden promised to slash police budgets then boosted federal funding to unheard of levels ($17.4 billion), $1.7 billion above the previous year (2021), because he was more afraid of the rabble than of the threat posed by a militarized police and politicized military.
Every politician in recent memory has sought to distance him or herself from the defund the police movement while quietly pumping their defence budget which includes National Guard troops training to suppress civil disturbance to all-time high levels, currently exceeding $800 billion.
When any politician promises to defund the police, they’re lying. None ever did. None ever will. I think Julius Caesar said that.
Here is Mamdani’s intern shrieking at police, calling them “pigs” while accusing the Muslim cops of betraying Islam. “Pig” is an especially offensive epithet when hurled at a Muslim. Tells one everything they need to know about Zohran Mamdani.
The Sanctuary City
You can query any Jewish or Italian American and they will tell you that their antecedents entered the USA through the front door, not through the window or down the chimney.
That’s pretty much how the real working class sees the immigration issue.
"The President of the United States just threatened to have me arrested, stripped of my citizenship, put in a detention camp and deported. Not because I have broken any law but because I will refuse to let ICE terrorize our city…" - Zohran Mamdani
Now, there’s an issue on which Mamdani and non-Islamists can agree. Like I said, our parents and grandparents fought the Nazis and the Gestapo was their version of ICE. Not the way a civilized society deals with a problem of its own making. But then, the USA is a society predicated on racism and bigotry, which doesn’t allow much room for rational problem solving. The natural go-to is the big stick.
"It's finally happened, the Democrats have crossed the line. Zohran Mamdani, a 100% Communist Lunatic, has just won the Dem Primary, and is on his way to becoming Mayor." - President Donald Trump on Truth Social
Mamdani, 33, is a New York State assemblyman born in Uganda to Muslim parents of Indian origin. He has lived in New York City for 26 years and became a U.S. citizen in 2018. As a citizen, Mamdani has a right to free speech under the Constitution, but only so long as that speech does not lead to attempts to dismantle the government, either through violence or stealth. I’m not a lawyer or constitutional expert but I did study civics in an elementary school that wasn’t a madrassa.
“Zohran Mamdani’s entire worldview is inherited garbage. His father, Mahmood Mamdani, isn’t just anti-Israel—he’s a professional genocide denier dressed up as a professor. This is the man who claimed that calling the Darfur genocide a “genocide” was colonialism—as if pointing out mass murder is worse than committing it.” - Yonah E
What President Trump fails to appreciate is that most Americans don’t savour his governing by fiat. Trump has issued enough Executive Orders in the first months of his second presidency to choke both the jackass and elephant that represent America’s single party system.
What Mamdani and others fail to appreciate is that the rights of U.S. citizens don’t automatically apply to undocumented migrants. You can Google that too. More to the point, if you crawl in through anyone’s window in the middle of the night, you’re quite likely to be shot, regardless of how well intentioned or desperate you are. Since most descendants of Jewish and Italian immigrants understand this principle, they should be spelling it out in big letters before assuming a mindless, back-the-underdog stance on immigration.
My own grandfather arrived at Ellis Island alone at the age of seven. That’s right. Seven. Alone. He stayed out of trouble, worked hard, married, and raised a family whose descendants comprise doctors, scientists, lawyers, bank executives, and, yes, politicians. He volunteered for service in WWII but was rejected for age (57). He died illiterate.
America didn’t need sanctuary cities in those days.
Much of NYC is a shit hole
As a child, I spend a lot of time with my Jewish-Italian family in the Bronx. By now, they’ve all either died or moved away. Nobody goes anywhere near Pelham Bay Parkway anymore, and if they need to transit that area they roll up the car windows, lock the doors, and check the safety on their Glocks.
I recall being out at night buying live crabs with Aunt Chiara, a Jewess who spoke better Italian than the pope. You could walk the streets unmolested at practically any hour. All four of her daughters were Columbia University graduates, although my uncle managed a small bar for a living and she was a full-time homemaker. They put all their money into their kids’ education and never collected even a penny of welfare.
They didn’t need what Zohran Mamdani promises New Yorkers.
Jews and Italians built NYC and America.
Don’t let Islamist thugs hijack it.
Read a novel excerpt about Italian Jews here:
