Islam and Pattern Recognition
17th March 2026
Even as Islamic terror attacks in America are becoming as routine as days of the week ending in “y,” Democrats are hurling the word “Islamophobia” as indiscriminately as Iran is lobbing missiles in every direction to create chaos.
In that vein, Democrat Senator Kirsten Gillibrand got herself all atwitter over an X post by Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville which contained juxtaposed pictures, one of the burning twin towers on 9/11 and the other of Zohran Mamdani sitting on the floor at a Ramadan iftar dinner purportedly inside city hall.
Since a picture, or two, is worth a thousand words, Tuberville’s tweet was linguistically parsimonious: “The enemy is inside the gates.”
Which is to say that after a mere quarter century, the same religion/ideology that took down the towers now inhabits the seat of government in our largest and most important American city. Tuberville’s short and sweet tweet suggests that’s not a good thing. Democrat sensibilities, however, are easily rubbed raw over such matters and Gillibrand’s response was: “This type of Islamophobia is disgraceful and unbecoming of a senator. Delete it immediately and apologize.”
Despite her command, as of this writing, no deletion or apology has been forthcoming.
Mamdani’s own response to Tuberville’s tweet, instead of being angry, was just passive-aggressively silly: “Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.”
Ah yes, breaking bread with New Yorkers! What could be more New York than sitting on the floor cross-legged eating fattoush, tabbouleh, samosas, pakoras, bamya, biryani, kabsa/machboos, mandi and Arabic biryani with chicken or lamb? And as for the hungry kids, were any invited to the iftar dinner?
The best response to Gillibrand’s post was this tweet from @davemarkowitz: “It’s not Islamaphobia [sic], it’s pattern recognition.”