In the theatre of global politics, there is a recurring pattern: those who invoke the language of democracy and secularism most loudly are often the first to discard it when it fails to serve their ideological ends. Few recent episodes expose this hypocrisy more clearly than New York’s newly elected mayor, Zohran Mamdani.

Mamdani’s recent win has ignited a multitude of reactions. I had refrained from commenting on the issue, for it is primarily an internal US matter. However, as Mamdani gained international traction, his previous positions on global issues started circulating again. That is when I noticed a 2020 post on social media platform X (formerly Twitter) [https://x.com/ZohranKMamdani/status/1291124907028500480], by Mamdani, where he slams India in general and Hindus in particular on the Ram Mandir issue. My response to this 2020 post by Mamdani [https://x.com/amishra77/status/1986449544952021278] has gained some traction and commentary, and hence this article, for a longer, more reasoned reflection on the true nature of the modern Islamist threat.

Mamdani’s attempts to lecture India about the Ram Mandir, as evidenced from the 2020 tweet thread (X post), steeped in the rhetoric of grievance, have reignited a larger conversation about ideological deceit, selective morality, and the Islamist exploitation of liberal values. The post of Mamdani uses half-truths and some outright fabrications to perpetuate the Islamist agenda against Hindus.

Mamdani’s 2020 post, written at a time when he was already a US citizen but disingenuously styled himself as an “Indian Muslim", was not an innocent identity assertion but a part of the larger Islamist belief system. It was a calculated attempt to appropriate the moral authority of a heritage he had formally renounced. What was even more scandalous was that Mamdani did not refer to himself as “Indian origin Muslim" but straight away “Indian Muslim" even though he was by then (in 2020) a US citizen and had actually contested and won elections in the USA.

Mamdani was born and raised in Uganda, migrated to the United States, and acquired American citizenship years before he entered politics. Yet, when it suited his ideological narrative, he suddenly became “Indian" again—precisely because that identity offered him the rhetorical ammunition to condemn India from the safety of Western liberal platforms. This convenient toggling of identity – citizenship by convenience, nativity by agenda – is not accidental; it is emblematic of the global Islamist playbook. They will claim whichever identity yields the greatest leverage against the civilisation they seek to delegitimise.

That is what makes Mamdani’s case more than just another tweet from a performative politician. His entire political persona is built upon a contradiction: he benefits from the freedoms, prosperity, and pluralism of Western democracy, but uses those privileges to attack the........

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