From Hijra to City Hall: Islam, Migration, and the Rise of Mamdani

By Raymond Ibrahim, Feb 20, 2026 *

Twenty-five years after Muslim terrorists killed 2,800 people in New York City on September 11, 2001, a self-identified Muslim has, for the first time in that city’s history, become mayor.

What is the significance of this, and what does it really tell us?

On January 1, 2026, Zohran Mamdani — 35 years old, born in Uganda to Indian parents, Shia Muslim, former housing counselor and rapper (“Young Cardamom”), self-described democratic socialist — was sworn in as mayor of New York City. He has been described by many, including the President of the United States, as a “100% Communist Lunatic.”

Others accuse him of being a closet Muslim radical working to subvert New York to Islam. Their concerns are not unwarranted (not least since Shia Islam is notorious for internalizing taqiyya, a doctrine that promotes dissembling).

Washington Democrats Raid Police & Firefighter Pensions $4 Billion Pension Surplus to Fund Their Spending Spree, ALL REPUBLICANS VOTED NO

Washington State House Democrats have crossed a dangerous line. Billions stripped from those who serve — millions redirected to political pet projects.

In a brazen vote, they moved to siphon $4 billion out of pension funds meant for law enforcement officers and firefighters — the very people who risk their lives daily — to plug a deficit of their own making.

Every single Republican in the state House voted no.

Jesse Jackson has Died

Cooper Williamson

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, the famed civil rights leader who marched alongside Martin Luther King Jr. and later ran for president, has died, his family says. He was 84.

He died peacefully on Tuesday morning, surrounded by his family, they said in a statement.

Jackson was hospitalized for observation in November, and doctors said he'd been diagnosed with a degenerative condition called progressive supranuclear palsy. He revealed in 2017 that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, which affects the nervous system and slowly restricts movement and daily activities. Jackson called it a "physical challenge," but he refused to let it prevent him from continuing his civil rights advocacy. His father, Noah Lewis Robinson Sr., also had Parkinson's and died of the disease in 1997 at the age of 88.

Long known for his activism and political influence, Jackson spent his life dedicated to pursuing civil rights for disenfranchised groups both in the United States and abroad.

Japan Endangered by Low Birthrates and Mass Migration

By Daniel Greenfield

A few months before his assassination, Charlie Kirk visited Japan and warned that mass migration was seeking to “replace and eradicate Japan by bringing in Indonesians, by bringing in Arabs, by bringing in Muslims”.

With over 100 mosques and over 400,000 Muslims already occupying Japan, even though 95% of Japanese voters oppose Muslim mass migration, a political explosion was bound to occur.

Now, Japanese voters have delivered a striking defeat to the forces of mass migration with a stunning win for Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, [pictured above] whom the media has already taken to describing as a ‘Trumpian’ figure for opposing mass migration, her Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which won its largest victory to date, as did a number of other right-wing parties, including the one Kirk was addressing, demonstrating that voters were tired of mass migration.

A Convert from Islam to Christianity Issues a Sobering Warning.

February 10, 2026 by Robert Spencer 

Epoch Times Senior Editor Jan Jekielek recently interviewed Nissar Hussain at the International Religious Freedom Summit. Hussain has a great deal to tell the world about religious freedom, as he converted from Islam to Christianity and nearly lost his life for doing so, not in Iran, or Pakistan, or Afghanistan, but in the new, diverse, multicultural Britain that the left has bestowed upon a grateful world. Hussain told Jekielek that the situation in Britain is, in a word, dire, and it will be in the United States if we don’t wake up to reality regarding Islam and Sharia.

In a video that Jekielek posted on X Friday, Hussain recounts how Muslims reviled him and his family as “kafir,” “infidel,” “unbeliever,” and “Jew dogs.” Jekielek notes that this was not even close to all: “Men confronted him in the street, spat on him, and cursed him—in front of his young children.” Muslims also menaced Hussain’s life in various ways: “One night he woke up at 3am to see ‘seven foot flames shooting up’ from his car. His car was rammed and vandalized so often that insurance companies wrote him off as a walking liability and refused to insure him…. Young men hurled bricks and other missiles at his house at night repeatedly.” Hussain recounted that he felt as if “all hell broke loose…I was dead and buried.”

Days on End. "A New Day has Begun."

By Thomas D. Pearman* 

Time is all that counts.  I was seeing the musical ‘Cats’ - “Burned out ends of smoky days - street lamp flutters - and then it sputters - and a new day has begun.”  And a new day has begun.  It means not so much to seize a new day - and enjoy it - but that the passing of time is inevitable.  It was sung by the head actress - a cat- who had once been beautiful, glamorous and happy, but is now old, faded and knows she will die soon. 

We are all part of the steady progression of time.  We have come and we will go, just as people before us have come and gone, and just as people after us will come and go.  We will leave great marks, varying marks, or no marks at all as our time has passed.

The passing of time does not escape any of us.  One only has to look at photos of how we looked throughout our life.  It seems situations around us change greatly, and we look older, yet we remain the same person.  It is what is so painful.

It is the desire of wanting to break away from the prison of passing of time that makes us want to do something worthwhile, to strive for success.  It is this quest that will make us happy.  It will allow us to create happy memories as we look back - things we could accomplish - even though we may not be able to do these same things now.