Mamdani <\/a>told reporters that he has more important work than indulging a man who \u201ctrades in outrage,\u201d although he cautioned against dismissing Rosenberg\u2019s comments as \u201cpolitics as usual.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cTo be called animals, insects, to be called a jihadist mayor, to be called a cockroach, this language is both painfully familiar to me as a Muslim New Yorker but also as someone who was born in East Africa,\u201d the mayor said. \u201cAnd it is difficult to hear, it is also \u2013 there is also a reminder that the silence that often greets this kind of bigotry, this kind of Islamophobia is what allows it to fester.\u201d<\/p>\n
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