What hubris: Zohran Mamdani seems so convinced he has the mayor\u2019s race in the bag, he\u2019s happily embracing the most extremist elements of his coalition.<\/p>\n
How else to explain his Friday visit<\/a> to Masjid At-Taqwa, the Bedford-Stuyvesant mosque\u00a0of imam Siraj Wahhaj, which the candidate freely publicized on X<\/a>?<\/p>\n Prosecutors list Wahhaj as an \u201cunindicted co-conspirator\u201d in the 1993\u00a0World Trade Center bombing,\u00a0as several of the plotters were members of his mosque; he even publicly defended the conspirators, insisting the FBI and CIA are somehow the \u201creal terrorists.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n He also testified in support of\u00a0Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman<\/a>\u00a0\u2014\u00a0the infamous \u201cblind sheik\u201d linked to multiple terror attacks and convicted in the 1993 plot to bomb multiple New York City landmarks.<\/p>\n Wahhaj denies any ties<\/a> to terrorism, and also claims that he\u2019s the one who pointed the authorities at three of his children, who were convicted in 2018 after keeping 11 kids in a New Mexico compound, allegedly training<\/a> them to carry out terror attacks.<\/p>\n None of that was sufficient to steer Mamdani away from a happy visit with Wahhaj, complete with a smiling selfie.<\/p>\n Nor was the cleric\u2019s notorious anti-gay preaching any barrier.<\/p>\n Then again, Mamdani\u2019s Muslim fans seem willing to overlook his support for decriminalizing prostitution<\/a>.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\tGet opinions and commentary from our columnists\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe to our daily Post Opinion newsletter!\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n It\u2019s beyond bizarre how the global left gets along with Islamic extremists; the only thing they have in common is hatred for the Western traditions of free thought, free speech and free markets \u2014 but apparently that\u2019s enough.<\/p>\n At this point, Mamdani would probably be willing to pal around with 9\/11 plotters, if any still lived.<\/p>\n