NEW YORK \u2014 Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville is attacking Zohran Mamdani with an anti-Muslim tweet that accused the New York City mayor of being \u201cthe enemy inside the gates.\u201d<\/p>\n
The conservative Alabama lawmaker retweeted a post including a photo of Mamdani hosting a Ramadan iftar dinner at City Hall alongside the Sept. 11 terror attack on the World Trade Center.<\/p>\n
Mamdani hit back at Tuberville\u2019s jibe, which falsely suggested that Mamdani or Muslims support terrorism.<\/p>\n
\u201cLet there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers,\u201d tweeted Mamdani, who is the first Muslim mayor of New York City.<\/p>\n
At a break fast dinner with Muslim city workers late Thursday, Mamdani said he wasn\u2019t surprised to experience anti-Muslim attacks.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor nearly as long as there has been a New York City, there have been Muslim New Yorkers,\u201d Mamdani said at the iftar. \u201cAnd yet for nearly just as long, those with power and platform have sought to dehumanize us.\u201d<\/p>\n
New York Democrats joined in the effort to school Tuberville, who has previously drawn criticism for calling Islam a \u201ccult,\u201d with Sen. Chuck Schumer calling the tweet \u201cmindless hate.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand called the message \u201cdisgraceful and unbecoming of a senator.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDelete it immediately and apologize,\u201d Gillibrand tweeted.<\/p>\n
But Tuberville, an outspoken supporter of President Donald Trump who is running for Alabama governor, refused to apologize or back down for the Mamdani tweet.<\/p>\n
He insisted Friday he meant what he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo be clear, I didn\u2019t \u2018suggest\u2019 Islamists are the enemy. I said it plainly,\u201d Tuberville tweeted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville is attacking Zohran Mamdani with an anti-Muslim tweet that accused the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,56,63,65,64,19573,82],"class_list":["post-162670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-tommy-tuberville","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}