New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is torn over the USA’s 250th birthday. On the one hand, he knows he has an obligation to celebrate this key moment in American history. But on the other hand, his heart is not really in it.
I put the test to AI, asking, “Has Zohran Mamdani Ever Said Anything Positive About U.S. History That Was Unqualified?”
AI reports that Mamdani is a democratic socialist “whose worldview is rooted in a systemic critique of American institutions.” It also found that “Extensive reviews of his legislative record and public statements indicate that he rarely, if ever, offers ‘unqualified’ praise for U.S. history.”
I then asked the same question about me.
AI reports that Donohue “views the American founding as a monumental achievement but one that is inextricably linked to, and dependent upon, Judeo-Christian values.” It also found that he “argues that the American experiment in ordered liberty was only possible because of the cultural and moral capital provided by the Christian tradition.”
AI is twice accurate. Owing to his radical political views, Mamdani is at best vexed about America’s historical record. Owing to my Catholic conservative views, I am proud of America’s historical record.
Mamdani is not an American—he was born in Uganda. I decided to put his home country under the same critical lens (it should be noted that Mamdani owns four acres of land in Uganda).
Slavery exists today in Uganda. According to the 2023 Global Slavery Index, an estimated 190,000 people live in conditions of modern slavery. It is known as a hub for forced labor and sexual exploitation; children are treated the worst. This is consistent with its past record: it was a major transit and trading zone during the East African slave trade.
In addition to slavery, Uganda today is known for the persecution of Christians. Muslims routinely kill those who convert to Christianity, including members of their own family. Pastors are terrorized, churches are burnt to the ground, and wives abandon their husbands if they convert.
Here are six cases of this kind of barbarism in 2026.
May 2. A Christian convert received a call from his Muslim in-laws that his young child was seriously ill. When he arrived, he was severely beaten and left unconscious.
April 17. A recent Christian convert had his hands chopped off by his Muslim family members. The convert’s father said, “That is what sharia [Islamic law] instructs us to do to those who deny the religion of Allah.”
April 9. A Christian evangelist was murdered by several Muslim men after he and his wife spoke at an event to preach the Gospel.
March 11. A mother of six was severely beaten by her Muslim husband after he discovered she converted to Christianity and was attending Bible study.
January 30. Two Christian preachers were brutally beaten by five mask-wearing Muslim men after they were returning home from an all-night prayer meeting.
January 28. A 62-year-old man murdered his 33-year-old son with a long knife after the son converted to Christianity.
Mamdani is quick to find fault with America. Yet he has virtually nothing to say about slavery in Uganda today. Similarly, he fails to address the killing of innocent Christians by Muslim barbarians in his home country in 2026.
Regarding the latter, innocent Christians are not being slaughtered by roving Muslim gangs—they are being slain because their religious laws demand it. There is no analog in Christianity. In those instances when Christians kill Muslims, not only are they not compliant with Christian teachings—they are in clear violation of them. That’s the difference between Islam and Christianity: Muslims who murder converts to Christianity are being faithful to their religion.
Mamdani is too busy fretting over income disparities between whites and blacks to worry about his homeland’s wholesale abuses of human rights.
AI is too generous to him. A more thorough examination of his views indicates that he has one set of rules for assessing America (he condemns our alleged history of “colonization, exploitation and racial oppression”) and another for assessing Uganda (he never questions its fondness for slavery and religious persecution).
We are the home of the free. Uganda is the home of the oppressed. But listening to our Muslim mayor, he makes it sound like it’s the other way around. Spoken like a true Marxist.
