Tea at Trianon: Mamdani In Charge – Time To Face The Future

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Mamdani In Charge – Time To Face The Future

From AND Magazine:

The Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA): Identified by terrorism experts as the North American branch of Jamaat-e-Islami, a violent South Asian Islamist group. Ashraffuzzaman Khan, who used to head ICNA’s New York chapter, was convicted by a Bangladeshi war crimes tribunal and sentenced to death in absentia for his role in the torture and murder of 18 Bangladeshi intellectuals.
The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR): CAIR was listed as an unindicted conspirator in a scheme to finance Hamas, a trial that ended in a 65-year sentence for a CAIR board member.
The Illinois Muslim Political Action Committee: Members include Ousamma Jamal and Zaher Sahloul. Both have served as presidents of the Mosque Foundation, an organization with links to Hamas that has funded at least four charities that were subsequently shut down for financing terrorism.
Donations from such groups ought to be especially concerning, given Mamdani’s background and prior activities. Mamdani himself regularly accuses Israel of genocide. His father, a professor at Columbia University, teaches that Israel should not exist as a state and glorifies Palestinian terror attacks on Israel.
Mamdani once wrote and sang a rap song giving his “love” to the Holy Land Five, American Hamas financiers convicted and sent to prison for up to 65 years. Mamdani is a friend of broadcaster Hasan Piker, who believes that “America deserved 9/11.” (Read more.)