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Speaking at a mosque during his campaign, New York City’s likely next mayor Zohran Mamdani announced happily: “I am the first Muslim elected official to ever run for mayor in the history of our city.” An official of the mosque who was standing behind Mamdani immediately called out, “Takbir,” which is a prompt to which Muslims respond “Allahu akbar,” that is, Allah is greater, greater than the gods of the non-Muslims. The assembled believers responded dutifully, albeit unenthusiastically, but the candidate did not. He may have been aware that he was on video and suspected that him saying “Allahu akbar,” which so many jihad terrorists have called out as they committed murder and mayhem, would not be good campaign optics. Yet he really doesn’t make a secret of where he stands. He’s pro-jihad, at least against Israel and India.
Mamdani then went on to point out that most of the people in the room were migrants and delivered his standard stump speech about how he was running for mayor to make the city more affordable. He asserted that in his campaign, he was following the example of Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, who taught that Muslims should strive to make things easy for people.
His only other references to Islam came once again in the context of victimhood. Mamdani told a story about how “a brother of mine, Asad” took a photo of him at a campaign event and posted it on social media with the caption, “Alhamdulillah [thanks be to Allah], the first Muslim elected official to run for mayor.” Mamdani went on to claim that “a member of the New York Post responded. He said, ‘Is it true that they did not allow pagers into the event?’”
Mamdani explained this as a reference to Israel’s blowing up of pagers belonging to the jihad terrorist group Hizballah, asserting that “scores of Lebanese civilians, including a young girl by the name of Fatima” had been killed in this operation. His hatred for Israel was as clear as when he famously refused to condemn the phrase “Globalize the Intifada.”
The candidate then claimed improbably: “And we know that to be Muslim in public life in this city and in this country, is to face these kinds of responses, and to be called a terrorist no matter where it is, where you go.” He emphasized that they had an opportunity “to prove that Muslims don’t just belong in New York City, we also belong in city hall.” Mamdani clearly thought this was a winning line, as he used it in at least one other mosque as well.
Yet in closing, he undercut any idea that he was running solely as a Muslim candidate for his Muslim constituency: “We have an opportunity to vote for not only one of us, but more importantly, a city that each one of us can afford.” On another occasion, Mamdani demonstrated that he was more of a politician than a fanatical believer when he spoke at a Gurduwara, a Sikh temple, and left wearing a bandanna with a Sikh emblem tied over his head.
