Can a “12er” Sharia-supremacist be Entrusted with the Security of N.Y.C.?
A Victory Coalition Threat Assessment
Concerning Zohran Mamdani
12:00–1:00 p.m. ET
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Zohran Mamdani is running to be the next mayor of New York City as a Muslim Democratic Socialist. Even though that means he is a Communist who believes that Islam’s totalitarian code known as Sharia should be the “supreme law of the land,” not the Constitution of the United States, polls indicate that he is the leading candidate in a three-way race against former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, running as an independent, and Republian Curtis Sliwa.
While Mamdani’s theological and ideological proclivities should preclude his election in a city that has suffered grievously at the hands of leftists who have coddled Sharia-adherent Muslims over the 24 years since a handful of the latter destroyed the World Trade Center, to date even a majority of Jewish voters, to say nothing of an estimated million of his co-religionists now living in the city, evidently support his candidacy.
What has generally escaped attention, however, is that Mamdani’s strain of Islam is a version of the Shiite tradition that considers an individual known as the 12th Imam believed to have been living in a well in the Iranian city of Qom for the past 1200 years to be their messiah. They are known as “12ers.” They further believe he will come out of the well in response to immense – indeed, apocalyptic – level of suffering and a consequent outpouring of grief and pleas for mercy. His return and violent response will usher in the Golden Age of Islam, in which its triumph will occur worldwide.
Among the most radical of those who hold these beliefs are the ruling mullahs of Iran. Under their Grand Ayatollah – an ailing 86-year old named Ali Khamenei – they are convinced that the 12th Imam’s return will occur on their watch, and regard it as their duty to ensure that happens. Such an ambition makes the regime’s pursuit of nuclear weapons all the more ominous.
So does the prospect that the security of the people of New York City – the repeated target of murderous jihadists – could ultimately rely on a man who not only is ideologically aligned with the Sharia-supremacist doctrine that motivates them, but who has reportedly associated with some of the most dangerous ones in our country, as well as their enabling leftist allies.
This virtual briefing examines the threat posed to America’s most populous and financially important city and to the nation as a whole should Zohran Mamdani become NYC’s next mayor.
Moderator:
- Frank Gaffney,President, Institute for the American Future; Member, Victory Coalition; Briefing Co-sponsor; host, “Securing America”
Panelists:
- Lt. Cmdr/Dr. David Wurmser, PhD, U.S. Navy (Ret.), Former Senior Middle East advisor to an Under Secretary of State, National Security Advisor and Vice President of the United States; Director, Middle East program, Center for Security Policy (Invited)
- Robert Spencer, Director, Jihad Watch; Shillman Fellow, David Horowitz Freedom Center; columnist, Front Page Magazine and PJ Media; author of thirty-two books including, Intifada on the Hudson: The Selling of Zohran Mamdani
- Trevor Loudon, Author and filmmaker including of The Enemies Within; essayist; podcaster
- Charles “Sam” Faddis, former Clandestine Service Officer, Central Intelligence Agency; former, Chief, Office of Weapons of Mass Destruction Terrorism, CIA Headquarters ; U.S. Army veteran; former Assistant Attorney General, Washington State; author, Beyond Repair: The Decline and Fall of the CIA
- John Guandolo, Marine Corps Force Reconnaissance combat veteran; former member and Commanding Officer, FBI SWAT team; former counterterrorism FBI Special Agent; founder, JohnGuandolo.com
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The Victory Coalition’s mission is to focus on the need for victory over those determined to impose Sharia, whether by violent jihad or the stealthy, subversive kind, on Americans here at home and on their friends and allies in the Middle East and beyond.