America Has a Jihad Problem. How Will We Defeat It?
By Hannah Lape | DailyWire.com | Oct 27, 2025
Jihadists are not hijacking planes anymore. They are hijacking leftists.
Two years ago, Hamas terrorists committed the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. In one night, Hamas killed 1,200 men, women, and children; raped and assaulted countless women and girls; and took 251 hostages back to Gaza.
But on this year’s anniversary of October 7, leftists took to the streets of New York City clad in keffiyehs and waving Hamas’ flag, chanting praises for the massacre.
The scene from NYC was not spontaneous. It was another episode in a decades-long bloodless revolution. In a 1991 memorandum, the Muslim Brotherhood, a forerunner to Hamas, detailed its strategy for jihad in America. Brother Mohamed Akram wrote:
The process of settlement is a “Civilization-Jihadist Process” with all the word means. The Ikhwan [Muslim Brotherhood] must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western Civilization from within. (Emphasis added).
The New York City rally is proof that, 35 years after Akram penned this plan, jihadists have succeeded in hijacking leftists.
Leading them are the Democratic Socialists of America. The DSA boasts 80,000 members and 400 community chapters, and notable members of the party include New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani — who, on the campaign trail, posed for a picture with an unindicted conspirator in the deadly 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
The DSA’s leaders explicitly say that their group exists to “eliminate and destroy Western civilization from within.” Francis Gill, an elected board member, said the DSA has “a unique responsibility to act from the heart of empire, the belly of the beast” to take the “empire down from within.”
Ahmed Husain, director of activism for the DSA, said in a web seminar: “We’re inside the home of empire … As they [Hamas] fight there, we fight here … we’re doing our part our duty in this fight against empire.” Sounds familiar.
In June, leader Mirah Wood tweeted: “Death to Israel, death to America.”