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5 min read“We are approaching twenty-five years after 9/11. New York is now led by people who would have sided with the terrorists.” That is how Ben Shapiro opens this episode, and he spends the rest of it building the case that the American left, particularly in New York, has adopted a worldview that treats Islam as a victim of the West rather than a source of ideology that attacked it. The central question is why a Democratic governor would don a hijab, why a mayor would memorialize 9/11 by focusing on Muslim suffering, and why voters keep electing them.
The Hijab as a Political Statement
Shapiro argues that when Governor Kathy Hochul appeared in a full hijab, she was not simply showing respect for a religious site. He distinguishes this from a woman covering her hair out of courtesy in a Catholic church or synagogue. The hijab, he says, is globally a symbol of compulsion for women, and wearing it as a political leader signals submission to Islam’s rules rather than mere accommodation. He connects this to a broader pattern: Democratic politicians like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have done the same, and the effect is to normalize a garment that is required and often enforced by law in much of the Muslim world. The deeper point is that this reflects a leftist willingness to “glaze Islam” and repeat its talking points, even when those points contradict the left’s own stated feminism.
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- 1 (00:30) **The New York Governor’s Hijab as a Symbol of Submission** - Shapiro opens by framing Kathy Hochul’s decision to wear a full hijab not as a gesture of respect, but as a political act of submission to Islam, contrasting it with temporary head coverings in other religious contexts.
- 2 (07:05) **The West’s Self-Censorship on 9/11** - Shapiro highlights a CBC memo instructing staff not to call the 9/11 attacks “terrorist attacks,” arguing this is a symptom of the West’s guilt complex and willingness to blame itself.
- 3 (09:55) **Sharia Law in the Streets of New York** - Shapiro plays a clip from Nate Friedman’s video showing Muslim delivery drivers blocking streets and a traffic officer who cannot speak English and refuses to ticket them due to prayer time.
- 4 (12:53) **Why Liberal Women Embrace Islamist Repression** - Shapiro diagnoses the psychological mechanism driving leftist women to defend the hijab and Sharia: they have been taught that tolerance is the only virtue, and that their own civilization is uniquely evil.
- 5 (14:33) **Mayor Mandani’s Anti-American Worldview** - Shapiro exposes New York Mayor Zoran Mandani’s true beliefs, reading a 2023 tweet where he equated 9/11 deaths with deaths from U.S. wars, and a speech where he called his aunt’s discomfort in a hijab the “real tragedy” of 9/11.
- 6 (19:35) **The America-Haters in Power** - Shapiro pivots to note that these anti-American figures are now in positions of influence, and that their shared ideology is paired with a demand for massive government redistributionism.
- 7 (24:17) **The Immigration System is Importing Enemies** - Shapiro argues that none of these people (Mandani, El-Sayed, Piker) should have been allowed into the country, as they use Western freedoms to undermine the West.
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Twenty-five years after 9/11, New York’s governor is donning a hijab and New York City’s mayor believes that people spontaneously combusted on 9/11; professional provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos is deported; and we discuss why those who hate America are also in favor of gigantic government redistributionist programs.
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