Zohran Mamdani stood there, took his oath, and placed his hand on the Qur’an. The reaction from politicians and commentators was scripted before it happened. They called it historic and meaningful. And boasted how this is diversity working exactly as planned. If you paused, even for a second, you were told to shut it down because it was just a ceremony and only extremists care about symbolism.
That is exactly how cultures rot – one small thing at a time – with lectures attached telling you not to notice.
Symbols Aren’t Harmless. They’re Road Signs.
We are supposed to believe that it makes no difference what book a leader swears on, because the words matter and the object doesn’t. That is a comforting lie.
Symbols expose what a society now respects, who it answers to, and which ideas it is quietly replacing. When everything is considered interchangeable, it means nothing is anchored anymore. That is not tolerance. It’s drift.
The founders were not trying to create a religious state, but they were building on a belief that human rights come from God and not from whoever happens to hold political power. That belief tied the government’s hands. It told leaders there was a line they had no right to cross. Remove that belief, and government becomes the source of permission instead of the protector of liberty. That is the trade we are currently making, and we pretend it is harmless.
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