Lefty NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani gleefully campaigned this week with a notorious, gay-hating Brooklyn imam who is an unindicted co-conspirator in 1993 World Trade Center bombing and who has been linked to other terrorist activity in the United States — including urging “jihad” on the Big Apple.

The Democratic frontrunner to become the city’s next mayor was seen laughing and grinning while standing arm-in-arm with Siraj Wahhaj  at the imam’s Bedford-Stuyvesant mosque in a photo the socialist posted to X a day after the first mayoral debate.

Councilman Yusef Salaam (D-Manhattan), a member of the Central Park 5 who was elected in November 2023, was also in the photo.

Zohran Mamdani and City Councilmember Yusef Abdus Salaam on Friday met with Imam Siraj Wahhaj. X/ZohranKMamdani

“Today at Masjid At-Taqwa, I had the pleasure of meeting with Imam Siraj Wahhaj, one of the nation’s foremost Muslim leaders and a pillar of the Bed-Stuy community for nearly half a century,” Mamdani wrote on X of the Friday encounter.

“A beautiful Jummah,” he wrote, referencing the weekly prayer.

Wahhaj, 75, who also heads the Muslim Alliance in North America, was fingered by prosecutors as an “unindicted co-conspirator” in the 1993 WTC bombing, which left six people dead, and has publicly defended the plotters of the attack against the FBI and CIA, whom he at the time dubbed the “real terrorists.” 

The imam has previously denied any connection to terrorism. 

Wahhaj was named by prosecutors as a co-conspirator of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

During subsequent trials, Wahhaj testified in support of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman — the infamous “blind sheikh” and leader of a terrorist sect out of Egypt — calling the man a “respected scholar.”

In a sermon in the early 2000s, Wahhaj — born Jeffrey Kearse — called for an army of 10,000 men to wage what he insisted was a gun-free jihad on New York City, according to a foreign intelligence assessment obtained Saturday by The Post.

“I pray one day Allah will bless us to raise an army, and I’m serious about this,” he said during the sermon, while urging his followers, “don’t pick up a gun, no. Just march. March through the city of New York.”

Police search on the ground in a parking garage underneath the World Trade Center on February 27, 1993 AFP via Getty Images

“Let them hear your voice. Let them hear it at night. Let them hear it 24 hours, until the whole city can’t sleep.”

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“We were very close, recently. We had made intention to raise an army of 10,000 men in New York City,” the imam said.

Imam Siraj Wahhaj speaks about Malcolm X on the 55th anniversary of his death during an exclusive interview with Anadolu Agency in New York, United States on February 18, 2020. Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

“Muslim men to go fight in the way of subhanahu wa ta’ala,” added the Imam, using a phrase that roughly translates to “glory be to Allah.”

“The evidence demonstrates that Mamdani’s political trajectory has not only been supported by activist movements but also reinforced by endorsements and alliances noted in figures with a documented history of extremist views and activities, posing a direct national security threat to New York City and the U.S.,” according to the report.

Wahhaj has also derided the LGBTQ community as “a disease of this society,” the report found.

Wahhaj has denied any involvement in the terror attack. AFP/Getty Images

“And you know, brothers and sisters, you know what the punishment is, if a man is found with another man?” he once preached during a sermon first reported by Islamic Watch in 2017.

“The Prophet Mohammad said the one who does it and the one to whom it is done to, kill them both.”

He discouraged his followers from open violence against the LGBTQ community, according to the assessment, suggesting instead they “invite them to Islam and make them feel uncomfortable.” 

“The fact that Mamdani stands with this imam is disqualifying,” said Republican mayoral nominee Curtis Sliwa.

Zohran Mamdani speaks during a “Reverse Town Hall” at the 32BJ SEIU HQ on October 17, 2025 in New York City. Getty Images

“New York needs a mayor who protects New Yorkers from terrorism, not embraces terrorists.”

The religious figure also made headlines in 2018 when three of his children were arrested for keeping 11 kids living in “Third World” conditions in a compound made of garbage in the New Mexico desert.

One of the victims told prosecutors Wahhaj’s namesake son was training a 13-year-old and his teen brother to fight against non-believers through techniques including rapid reloads and hand-to-hand combat.

The intelligence report claimed Wahhaj homeschooled his children and likely shaped the extremist ideology of the busted terror cell.

The intelligence report claimed Wahhaj homeschooled his children and likely shaped the extremist ideology of the busted terror cell. X/ZohranKMamdani

However, Wahhaj has insisted he was the one who called the police on his sick son and two daughters, leading to their arrest. They were sentenced to life in prison last year.

Ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democratic running as an independent for mayor, ripped Mamdani for posing for the photo with Wahhaj, considering the imam’s terrorism links and history of gay bashing – and for doing it less than two weeks after posing in another notorious pic with Ugandan Deputy Prime Minister Rebecca, who has pushed some of the most oppressive anti-LGBT laws in the world.

“[Mamdani] is proud to be standing with an unindicted co-conspirator in the 93 World Trade Center terror attack that killed New Yorkers?” Cuomo told The Post Saturday.

Cuomo ripped Mamdani for posing with Wahhaj. Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

“The same person who preaches radical hate toward the LBGTQ community, just weeks after Mamdani was caught posing with a family-friend Ugandan politician who passed a law sentencing gay people to jail for life? When people tell you who they are, you should believe them — and Zohran, wipe that smile off your face.” 

Wahhaj is a mentor of Brooklyn-based Muslim activist Linda Sarsour, the intelligence report notes.

The Israel-hating, Palestinian-American firebrand is one of Mamdani’s mentors and has played a big role in his mayoral campaign. 

Mamdani and Wahhaj did not return messages. 

Additional reporting by Jennifer Bain.