Christian – Snap Out of Your Stupor
It took four words from a traffic officer to end a seventy-year argument. “Permitted in the time of salat.”
That is the answer a New York City traffic agent gave journalist Nate Friedman when asked why a row of double-parked taxis sat untouched while a driver in a black car received a citation. Prayer time. The officer said it once, then said it again for the camera, then explained that the taxis “are permitted to park in the time of prayer.” He did not apologize. He did not hedge. He did not ask his supervisor. He simply announced, on a public street in the largest city in America, that enforcement depends on whether the driver is Muslim.
This is not a parking story. This is the story of what happens to a nation that allows its own faith to be legally evicted and then wonders why something else moved in.
Twenty-five years ago, Americans who warned about Sharia arriving in this country were mocked as paranoid boomers. Today the footage exists. A traffic cop is the least of it. The same preferential logic runs through courts, welfare offices, hiring, admissions, and every other institution quietly sorted into categories of the protected and the punishable. One law for those who pray toward Mecca, another for everyone else.
And New York’s mayor is not a bystander to this. He is the author of it. Zohran Mamdani, born in Uganda, is the city’s first 
Muslim mayor, and he has spent his first months in office treating his faith as a governing program. He hosted an iftar in City Hall’s Blue Room, describing the “transformation of a space that I’ve only ever known in one way” — a mayor openly converting municipal property into a place of worship. He prayed publicly with city sanitation workers. In Manhattan, residents are now roused at five in the morning by the amplified call to prayer, because noise ordinances apparently do not apply to Muslims either.
Then came Rikers Island. On Monday, Mamdani traveled to the city’s massive jail complex and observed Iftar with men awaiting trial, kneeling in prayer alongside them and breaking the fast. NPR’s Brian Mann reported that the mayor spent roughly an hour with the men, talking and shaking hands — an eternity in politician time. Mamdani called it one of the most meaningful evenings of his mayorship and insisted it was simply “being a Muslim New Yorker.”
Let’s be precise about who those men are. In New York, to be jailed at all under this district attorney requires being genuinely dangerous, a repeat offender, or both. Mamdani did not care. They were Muslim, and in his framework that made them virtuous regardless of what they had done. Weeks earlier, his Office of Immigrant Affairs posted an official tribute to World Hijab Day, celebrating the “faith, identity, and pride of Muslim women” and calling the hijab a “powerful symbol of devotion.”
Now place that beside what happens to Christians. When Secretary Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon began hosting a voluntary Christian prayer service in May 2025, and when Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer’s Department of Labor held its first “Secretary’s Prayer Service” on December 10, 2025, Americans United for Separation of Church and State sued. Their president, Rachel Laser, declared that the secretaries “are abusing the power of their government positions and taxpayer-
funded resources to impose their preferred religion on federal workers.”
No such lawsuit greeted the transfiguration of City Hall. No lawyers descended on Rikers Island. There is an entire web of NGOs that materializes within hours when a Christian politician bows his head in public — and no equivalent force on the right. The separation of church and state was never a neutral principle. It cuts one direction. It silences Christians and leaves everything else alone.
And it was never even real. The phrase appears nowhere in the Constitution. Thomas Jefferson wrote the “wall of separation” line in an 1802 courtesy letter to the Danbury Baptist Association — a private note restating what the First Amendment already said, more concerned with protecting the church from the state than the state from the church. Nobody paid it any mind for over a century. Then in 1947, Justice Hugo Black, in Everson v. Board of Education, plucked the phrase from the letter and declared that the Constitution “erected a wall between church and state” that “must be kept high and impregnable.” One unelected justice turned a metaphor into binding law.
Justice Rehnquist later called it exactly what it is: “a metaphor based upon bad history,” useless as a guide to judging, which “should be frankly and explicitly abandoned.” It was not abandoned. It became a de facto constitutional amendment. Within a few years the courts had banned daily prayer in New York schools, struck down Pennsylvania’s Lord’s Prayer and Bible-reading law, barred the Ten Commandments from classrooms, ordered a forty-three-foot cross removed from a San Diego park, and prohibited moments of voluntary silence in Alabama schools. Every ruling landed on Christianity.
Here is the part nobody will say on television: eliminating religion from public life is impossible. It is contrary to human nature. Michael Kinsley understood this in 2003 when he described environmentalism as a full-blown faith — an Eden, a fall, a coming judgment, a salvation renamed sustainability. David Foster Wallace understood it in 2005: “There is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshiping. Everybody worships.” The only question is what.
In New York, it’s Islam.
This is the end of a process. For nearly two hundred years, America was understood to be a Christian nation, and the First 
Amendment was never read to ban public Christianity. The first Congress paid a chaplain with taxpayer money to open sessions in prayer. Washington and Adams proclaimed national days of fasting and thanksgiving. The Northwest Ordinance tied religion and morality directly to good government. And the philosophical foundation of American rights — that they are endowed by the Creator, not granted by the state — is unintelligible without the Christian God who does the endowing. Remove Him, and you do not get neutrality. You get power, naked and unaccountable.
So here is the honest conclusion, and it comes with relief rather than despair: the wall is a fiction. Islamic nationalism is already operating in an American city, and no court will touch it. Christians have spent decades whispering, apologizing, and losing ground they never had to surrender.
It’s time Christians snapped out of their stupor. There are too many Christian Clergy making too many compromises with Scripture because their wives, girlfriends, paramours, or something else that has nothing to do with the Word, directs them to. In spite of being in direct contradiction to Scripture, women and their compliant men demand we reject the patriarchy. This makes our Churches, at best, Christian adjacent. Here are two examples I’m intimately familiar with. Click Here. Click Here.
The Christian Church in the United States is in dire straits. We’re hemorrhaging people. We have no children. Most congregations have rejected the Word and have succumbed to the World. We don’t have families, we don’t have Moms, we have barren girl bosses and aborted babies, just like the World.
If I was a Muslim, I’d be feeling pretty good right now.
When we, Christians, reject the faith, we look like fools. When I was 16 years old, I asserted that I was an Atheist. It wasn’t Church or Clergy that saved me. It was reading many books and giving much thought to what they said. The book that presented enough information for me to conclude that Jesus is real and he is our Lord and Savior was “Evidence that Demands a Verdict” by Josh McDowell.
I’ve summarized the book’s critical points, please have a look. Click Here
It’s time for Christians to stop being fools. Openly embrace Christian leaders. Openly embrace Christian nationalism. Openly embrace ALL OF Christianity, not just the parts your wife likes.
Christian Nationalism is “The Great Commission” executed in America. Any Christian rejecting Christian Nationalism has no idea what it is.
I’ve prepared a brief explanation of Christian Nationalism and why it’s imperative. Click Here.
If the Muslims dominating New York are unashamed of their faith and their power, Christians have no business being ashamed of theirs. The separation of Church and state is dead.
It is time we started acting like it.
Dave
