Zohran Mamdani’s smiley meeting with terror-linked – Latest News
It’s laborious to consider that 24 years after 9/11, New York City is on the brink of voting in a Uganda-born Islamist mayor who campaigned final week with an unindicted co-conspirator within the first World Trade Center terrorist assault that killed six New Yorkers.
Three weeks earlier than the election, polling says that the runaway front-runner, the perpetually smiling democratic socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani, 33, will likely be this metropolis’s first Muslim mayor. And not simply any Muslim, however an unapologetic Islamo-Marxist who seems to have been fastidiously constructed for electoral success in the identical political laboratory as Barack Obama.
Mamdani is so cocky that he boasted on social media about his Friday go to to radical Imam Siraj Wahhaj at his Bedford-Stuyvesant mosque, regardless of Wahhaj’s hyperlinks to terrorists, and his brazenly homophobic rants.
Wahhaj is “a pillar of the Bed-Stuy community for nearly half a century,” Mamdani wrote on X posting a photograph of himself and the imam with their arms round one another on Friday.
The imam, who desires Shariah law imposed on the US, is “one of the nation’s foremost Muslim leaders,” based on slippery Mamdani.
For army veterans like Mark Lucas, 43, who answered the call to defend this nation after 9/11, Mamdani’s ascent is a kick within the guts.
Iowa vet’s response
“There’s a lot of emotions,” says the daddy of three. “This is tearing open wounds for veterans all throughout America.
“I’m a small-town Iowa guy. For a while I didn’t believe [Mamdani could win], I thought there’s no way this is going to happen,” he stated. “Then after the debate last week I saw his numbers go up and I saw all these black-pilled people online giving up on New York . . . I can’t stand people who give up. We can’t write off the city that is the most visible icon of the United States of America.”
Lucas, who grew up in Wilton, Iowa, was 19 on Sept. 11, 2001. He had simply launched into a profession in tech and was about to win election to his native council when he walked into his workplace that morning the place a TV was exhibiting the Twin Towers on fire.
”I knew my life had modified,” he says of that second.
Like so many patriotic Midwestern boys whose households have a long historical past of army service, Lucas felt a calling to affix what George W. Bush known as the “War On Terror,” and was deployed to Afghanistan in 2003.
“I wanted to avenge what happened . . . to kill the monsters responsible for that horrific terror attack,” he stated.
He didn’t even like New York City, however after 9/11, “We were all New Yorkers.”
Now he desires to make use of his voice because the founder of Veteran Action to raise the alarm and urge different veterans to talk out in opposition to the Islamist risk Mamdani poses.
The grassroots advocacy group for veterans was influential within the affirmation of his buddy, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.
“My combat experience opened my eyes to how incompatible Islam is with American values,” Lucas says. “I think for a lot of people, when they realize the story behind Mamdani meeting with that radical cleric, that will open up a lot of eyes . . . It may be the wake-up call that New York needs.”
In distinction to Lucas, the privileged Mamdani, who migrated to New York from Uganda at age 7 in 1998, and solely grew to become a US citizen at age 27, sees 9/11 in self-engrossed phrases, as in how it affected his life.
‘Illusions’
In a 2019 video unearthed on social media Mamdani portrays himself as a sufferer of that day, saying that his instructor pulled him and a fellow scholar out of class to warn them that they could be bullied as a result of they’re Muslim.
“There is still this illusion, partially a result of settler-colonialism, that all of us can become New Yorkers . . . and yet there would be these moments where I would be reminded by someone . . . that you do not belong,” he recalled.
Mamdani’s leftist Columbia professor father Mamood’s response to 9/11 was to jot down a guide blaming the US for bringing the assault on itself and complaining about Islamophobia.
In reality, Mandani’s total political profession is centered on his Muslim id.
“Commie Mamdani” as President Trump calls him, advocates socialist redistribution of wealth, taxing “millionaires” — those that haven’t fled the town — emptying jails, changing cops with social staff, laying on free buses, backed grocery shops and forcing low cost rents on landlords.
His motto is “affordability,” however the subtext is Islam, and how to harness the latent electoral muscle of the fast-growing Muslim population of the town, who he’s banking might be mobilized to the polls by imams like Wahhaj.
New York City has the most important Muslim population of any American metropolis, estimated to be wherever from 750,000 to 1 million residents, or about 9% of residents.
Mamdani reportedly was persuaded to run for mayor final yr at a Yemeni espresso store known as Qahwah House in Astoria “that served as his local hide-out and unofficial scheming headquarters just blocks from his apartment,” stated The New York Times in a latest puff piece.
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He “saw an opportunity to form a coalition [of] Muslims, South Asians, renters, young people and progressives,” the paper reported.
Where there’s a will
Backing Palestinians within the conflict on Gaza was essential to this demographic.
This is why Mamdani is sticking to his absurd vow to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu subsequent time the Israeli prime minister involves New York.
It’s why he has tried to withstand entreaties to say that Hamas ought to lay down its weapons.
It’s why he informed the Times that the second on the marketing campaign that he felt most linked to the town was during Ramadan, in March, when he made the rounds of mosques.
It’s why within the mayoral debate final week, Mamdani berated a curiously meek Cuomo for not visiting more mosques.
“It took Andrew Cuomo being beaten by a Muslim candidate in the Democratic primary for him to set foot in a mosque. He had more than 10 years and he couldn’t name a single mosque at the last debate we had that he visited,” he stated.
So what?
Instead of telling the pipsqueak to tug his head in, Cuomo flapped round defending himself as being a massive fan of “the Muslim community.”
Mamdani is harmful, as proven by his unabashed embrace of his Islamist radical mentors and his barely contained disrespect for the NYPD, which he has branded “racist, anti-queer,” and whose defunding he advocated in 2020.
We can’t let the town sleepwalk its approach to catastrophe.
The vile Cuomo and the plucky however electorally challenged Republican Curtis Sliwa appear doomed. But as Lucas says, we will’t stop on New York.
Where there’s time, there’s hope.
