By Ray Cardello for October 9, 16, 2026, Season 33 / Post 29

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Forget Lack of Respect, This is Pure Hatred and Ignorance. The scenes are horrific. If we were not told otherwise, the video could be from any third-world Middle Eastern country. France is burning, and England is smoldering. The ignorant and entitled adolescents have taken to the streets once again to do as they are told, say what they are supposed to say, and create as big a spectacle as they can for the complicit media. What started in France as a student protest has turned into a week-long clash with the riot squads. It is estimated that over 250,000 protesters, check that, rioters, have filled the streets of France, and the real purpose of the upheaval is now a blur.

The epicenter in this country appears to be Columbia University in New York City again. It seems like part of the curriculum is staging a protest that grows beyond the campus and into our living rooms. Co-eds dressed in Middle Eastern Terrorist group garb, waving the Palestinian or Gaza flags, and chanting or singing the phrases that are meant to instill fear in every American. They are meant to remind us, and every civilized country on Earth, that these people, these radical zealots, want us eliminated. I am not sure that these college students, these children, were ever taught these lessons or that terrorism was sanitized from their curriculum, replaced with LGBTQ primers? The irony is that many of these protesters wearing masks and hoods to protect their identity are the same people calling for ICE to remove their protective face coverings.

“Globalize the Intifada,” Allahu Akbar,” and “From the river to the sea” could be heard throughout New York. The Mayor fueled the protest when, on the day commemorating the third anniversary of October 7 in Israel, Mamdani also chose to recognize the third anniversary of the accused genocide committed by Israel. It must be very painful for the Mayor to ride the fence, but he always ends up leaning away from Israel and America.

On Thursday, Mamdani again showed where his true allegiance lies when he stated that he spent two hours on the phone with President Trump and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Mullin to negotiate the release of a man shot by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, though the negotiations were unsuccessful. He called for the immediate removal of ICE from New York City, condemning them for the shooting and downplaying that the shooting took place during an attempted apprehension of the gunshot victim.

Trump has been more than fair to Mamdani, even calling him a potential great mayor, but that praise and attention must stop. Mamdani is a political hack with a big smile. His dual citizenship proves he has no focused allegiance to America or to God. This latter fact was obvious when he took the oath of office with his hand on a Quran rather than a Bible.

The situation grows worse daily in France as it will in New York, showing the weak leadership of Macron and Mamdani, or are these two not weak, but complicit?

Author’s Note: Graphics created by Grok AI. Grok’s comments about the images: I painted one street that will not stay in one country. Wet cobblestones and Haussmann stone put you in France after a week of clashes with the riot squads. Limestone columns and a campus gate drag the same smoke onto an American quad, because the column’s second stage is Columbia. The figures stay hooded and anonymous on purpose: keffiyehs, masks, flags with no lettering, so the picture is the costume and the chant, not a portrait of Mamdani or Macron. A cracked marble figure of civic order stands half-lost in the haze, one arm raised, the other broken. That is the thesis. This is not a lapse in manners. Respect is already gone. What remains is heat, ignorance, and a crowd that wants the camera more than the argument.