The title of the MSN article you dropped in here as a blind link is "Mamdani defends meeting
radical imam by
wrongly claiming wasn't a big deal when prior mayors did so".
Emphasis mine.
MSN said:
Front-running New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is defending his decision to meet with (and praise) a radical Brooklyn imam - claiming that prior NYC mayors had also met with him and falsely asserting that they did not garner national attention.
Mamdani spoke at imam Siraj Wahhaj's Brooklyn mosque Friday and
praised him on X as "one of the nation's foremost Muslim leaders and a pillar of the Bed-Stuy community for nearly half a century."
Mayoral opponents of Democratic nominee Mamdani - former Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa - each
criticized Mamdani over his praise of Wahhaj, and Mamdani pushed back against the criticism. And they will likely make the meeting an issue when the debate again Wednesday night, ahead of Election Day on Nov. 4.
What you did not quote:
MSN said:
Adams's office told Just the News that Zohran's claim that Adams had campaigned with Wahhaj, however, was false, with the mayor's office saying that when Adams was Brooklyn Borough President and running for mayor, he visited multiple mosques as part of a "mosque tour" but that he did not actually campaign with Wahhaj.
"If the assemblymember [Mamdani] wants to liken himself to Mayor Adams, perhaps he should also join the mayor in condemning Hamas, denouncing the phrase ‘globalize the intifada,' accepting the IHRA [International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance] definition for antisemitism, and speaking out against the surge of vile antisemitic hate we've witnessed across our city and country since October 7th," Adams press secretary Kayla Mamelak Altus told Just the News. "Something tells me he won't."
And other things that do not fit the pro-Mamdani narrative.
Mamdani has received death threats and been accused of all kinds of shit that wasn't true. He's been attacked because he's a Muslim. Interestingly enough, some Muslims have attacked him because he supports the LBGTQ community, abortion rights etc.
Note that his bff Kearse is rabidly anti-LGBT.
I simply see a very idealistic young man who wants to make an extremely expensive city more affordable.
We have discussed that in detail upthread.
His policy proposals are going to do far more harm than good.
The big problem is that as long as NYC is a desirable place to live and visit, laws of supply and demand dictate that prices will be higher than elsewhere.
That can't be overcome by diktat from City Hall.
Do I think he can accomplish many of his goals? No, but at least his heart is in the right place and he's a refreshing change from the current mayor and the former governor, just to mention two.
The current mayor is corrupt, yes, but he undid some of the bad policies his predecessor implemented.
I don't like Cuomo either, but he is clearly the lesser of two evils, and in politics ...
As to Mandani's "heart" being in the right place, he is rabidly anti-Israel, and has been since college. That says a lot about his character, and also explains why he is so chummy with the likes of Kearse.
He's been brutally attacked by Republicans who have said that he shouldn't have been permitted to stay in the US or become a citizen, despite coming here with his mother when he was 7. Give us a break.
That is going too far, obviiously. But he should not be the mayor of the biggest US city either. But I guess, if H.L. Mencken's quote that
"democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard" applies to US as a whole and how Trump got elected, it applies to the people of the Five Boroughs just as well.
There is nothing scary about Mamdani unless you're a bigot who doesn't like people who are from different backgrounds or cultures.
Bullshit! There is nothing bigoted about being opposed to Mamdani's socialism or his embrace of Islamists who support jihadist terrorism.
And there is also nothing bigoted about recognizing that not all cultures are equivalent.
I have an idiot friendly acquaintance who believes that Muslims are taking over the country, despite the fact that they make up about 1.3% of the population, according to the statistics I read.
Muslims are not uniformly spread in the US. They have already taken over cities like Dearborn and Hamtramck in Michigan. In Minneapolis, the city council with several Muslims on it decreed that noise ordinances do not apply to mosques, and that they may blare calls to prayer at full volume at all hours of the night.
And you only have to look at Europe, which is a few decades farther along. Muslims are dominant in many cities and are getting more brazen as their numbers are increasing. And their numbers are increasing, both due to mass migration and due to mass breeding.
We are a country that is not supposed to have a religious test to run for office. We are supposed to support freedom of religion which also means freedom from religion.
Hold that thought and then look at what that imam Mamdani supports thinks:
Jeffrey Kearse aka Siraj Wahhaj said:
Islam is better than democracy. Allah will cause his deen, Islam to prevail over every kind of system, and you know what? It will happen.
Mamdani isn't pushing his beliefs on the city of NY, but the White Christian Nationalists want us all be ruled by the crazy Christian Right. Why the fuck are you or anyone else worried about one Muslim who will likely be the major of one city?
Islam is, in the long run, far more dangerous for the West.
And this is Mamdani's real constituency.
His other supporters are just useful idiots.
