Palling around with ‘terror co-conspirator’ shows – Latest News
What hubris: Zohran Mamdani appears so satisfied he has the mayor’s race within the bag, he’s fortunately embracing probably the most extremist components of his coalition.
How else to clarify his Friday go to to Masjid At-Taqwa, the Bedford-Stuyvesant mosque of imam Siraj Wahhaj, which the candidate freely publicized on X?
Prosecutors checklist Wahhaj as an “unindicted co-conspirator” within the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, as a number of of the plotters had been members of his mosque; he even publicly defended the conspirators, insisting the FBI and CIA are in some way the “real terrorists.”
He additionally testified in assist of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman — the notorious “blind sheik” linked to a number of terror assaults and convicted within the 1993 plot to bomb a number of New York City landmarks.
Wahhaj denies any ties to terrorism, and likewise claims that he’s the one who pointed the authorities at three of his kids, who had been convicted in 2018 after conserving 11 children in a New Mexico compound, allegedly coaching them to hold out terror assaults.
None of that was ample to steer Mamdani away from a joyful go to with Wahhaj, full with a smiling selfie.
Nor was the cleric’s infamous anti-gay preaching any barrier.
Then again, Mamdani’s Muslim followers appear prepared to miss his assist for decriminalizing prostitution.
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It’s past weird how the worldwide left will get alongside with Islamic extremists; the one factor they’ve in common is hatred for the Western traditions of free thought, free speech and free markets — however apparently that’s enough.
At this level, Mamdani would in all probability be prepared to pal around with 9/11 plotters, if any nonetheless lived.
The candidate dodged questions Sunday about Wahhaj, offering solely his normal grin in lieu of any remark; he plainly figures he can smile his strategy to Gracie Mansion.
If he proves appropriate, it’s going to be a very long 4 years for New York’s non-extremist majority.
