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When Zohran Mamdani says Muhammad was “an immigrant,” he’s not technically lying. He’s just cutting the story off right before it gets inconvenient. Yeah - Muhammad migrated to Medina in 622. That part’s real. What they don’t tell you is what happened next. He didn’t walk into an empty city. Medina was a multi-tribal society with significant Jewish populations - established, structured, and already running things economically and politically. There was an agreement - the Constitution of Medina - where different groups, including Jews and Muslims, were supposed to coexist under mutual obligations. Sounds like the “diversity works” narrative, right? Give it five years. One Jewish tribe? Expelled. Second tribe? Expelled. Third tribe? Surrounded, surrendered… then the men executed and the women and children enslaved. That’s not fringe history. That’s coming straight out of early Islamic sources - the same ones scholars, Islamic and non-Islamic, have studied for centuries. And that’s the part people like Mamdani conveniently skip. Because if you include that, the framing changes. It’s no longer just “immigrant seeking refuge.” It becomes: enter → consolidate → eliminate opposition. We have to call out selective storytelling. Because when politicians cherry-pick history to push a modern agenda, they’re not educating you - they’re managing you. They give you the soft-focus version: “Refugee. Inclusion. Coexistence.” They leave out: Power. Conflict. Consequences. And if you don’t know the full timeline, you’re arguing blind. So don’t just accept the headline they hand you. Read the whole story. And don't forget the part that involved the Jews so you can understand what's going on between Israel and the Muslim world.