Mamdani’s deliberately divisive Islamophobia – Latest News
Let us all pity Mayor Zohran Mamdani: Yes, he will get to run America’s biggest metropolis, dwell in a mansion courtesy of the taxpayers and bathe in world fame and the love of most media — however the poor man feels “loneliness” and “isolation” . . . as a result of of all of the Islamophobia he faces.
“It takes a toll,” he confessed final week, the day after a Hezbollah-connected terrorist tried to blow up a synagogue in Michigan and one other Islamist terrorist opened fire at Old Dominion University; “It’s difficult.”
The burden, he defined: Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) retweeted a post of Mamdani at an iftar at City Hall, subsequent to a image of the 9/11 assaults, noting, “the enemy is inside the gates.”
Rep. Brandon Gill (R-Texas) known as a picture of the City Hall iftar “stomach churning.”
City Councilwoman Vickie Paladino has been equally imply.
Also, some ISIS-inspired terrorists days earlier had thrown bombs close to Gracie Mansion, giving the “Islamophobes” yet one more pretext to pounce and so feeding the mayor’s aggrieved sense of a world of hatred arrayed towards him.
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Except that none of Tuberville, Gill or Paladino indicated that having a Muslim as mayor is the issue; the issue is having this mayor.
The “enemy is inside the gates” as a result of Mamdani is a radical socialist whose insurance policies will destroy town, for starters.
And an apologist for Islamist violence who constantly and offensively makes use of 9/11 and the Holocaust as metaphors for the trauma that Muslims undergo.
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And a politician who performs footsy with advocates for violent terror and different hardcore antisemites.
Mamdani invited Mahmoud Khalil, an organizer of the Columbia University protests who lied on his visa utility to enter the United States, to dine at Gracie Mansion with their wives, and printed an intimate picture of the 2 {couples} at desk.
Khalil has said that he’ll not condemn Hamas as a matter of precept: “It’s very racist to ask a Palestinian this question,” he whined at an occasion Sunday.
Racist how?
More, he complained: “Claims of antisemitism are being weaponized to silence” courageous critics of Israel similar to himself.
No surprise Mamdani is so tight with Khalil: They share a lot struggling.
Reality verify, Mr. Mayor: Nobody has a downside with the million Muslims in New York City who go about their business, that means and doing no hurt.
But no different faith has the identical extremism downside, a twisted philosophy used to justify terrorism, together with terror assaults towards innocents who don’t have anything to do with grievances about some faraway land.
Mean phrases, even precise outright bigoted ones, are nonetheless simply phrases: Speech shouldn’t be violence, and violence shouldn’t be speech.
Please, Mr. Mayor: Stop appearing like 9/11 was one thing dangerous that occurred to Muslims, and stop being cozy with terrorist sympathizers.
It’ll do wonders on your temper.
