Democrats’ meltdown over “Islamophobic” comments allegedly chuckled over by Andrew Cuomo is a foretaste of a future Mamdani mayoralty: Expect all criticism of the devoutly anti-Zionist socialist to be denounced as attacks on his religion.
Let’s be clear: Calling Zohran Mamdani an anti-American supporter of terrorism has nothing to do with his religion and everything to do with his record of statements, actions and associations.
It was Mamdani who wrote and sang a rap song giving his “love” to the Holy Land Five, American Hamas financers convicted and sent to prison for up to 65 years.
It is also Mamdani who is buddies with “brocaster” Hasan Piker, who believes that “America deserved 9/11.”
Mamdani also posed for pictures with Hasan while the streamer wore a “Did jet fuel melt steel beams?” T-shirt — a meme associated with the “9/11 truth” movement which denies that jihadists were behind the attacks.
He also embraces Siraj Wahhaj, a radical Brooklyn cleric, unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and character witness for Omar Abdel-Rahman, the “blind sheik” convicted on a host of terrorism charges who finished his life in prison.
It’s no secret that Mamdani’s political awakening and career have been focused on the eradication of Zionism. He got himself arrested outside Sen. Chuck Schumer’s house at a “Stop Genocide” protest less than a week after the Oct. 7 attacks, when the “genocide” had scarcely begun.
The list goes on.
Mamdani and his supporters have perfected a neat trick: Whenever he is plausibly accused of antisemitism or being associated with forthright jihadists, he cries that his accusers are Islamophobic, even though his religion is never mentioned, just his politics.
After radio host Sid Rosenberg commented to Andrew Cuomo that Mamdani would celebrate another 9/11, Mamdani cultists went bonkers claiming that Cuomo is a racist and Islamophobe.
Cuomo didn’t say it, but even if he had, so what?
Mamdani founded the Bowdoin College chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, a group that refers to the “so-called US” and openly calls for the destruction of the West.
He speaks at rallies where signs and banners read “There is only Solution: Intifada Revolution.”
So why is it even controversial to say that Mamdani welcomes terrorism?
Get ready, New York.
Zohran Mamdani has a whole team of agitators set to leap on any criticism of their maximum leader and display it as evidence of underlying Islamophobia, a nonsensical category that was invented to quash legitimate concerns about the growth of jihadism.
Elect him, and you’ll hear a lot of it.