{"id":167219,"date":"2026-03-18T13:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T13:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/167219\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T13:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T13:49:07","slug":"mamdanis-deliberately-divisive-islamophobia-obsession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/167219\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani’s deliberately divisive Islamophobia obsession"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let us all pity Mayor Zohran Mamdani: Yes, he gets to run America\u2019s greatest city, live in a mansion courtesy of the taxpayers and bathe in world fame and the love of most media \u2014 but the poor guy feels \u201cloneliness\u201d and \u201cisolation\u201d . . . because of all the Islamophobia he faces.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cIt takes a toll,\u201d he confessed last week, the day after a Hezbollah-connected terrorist<\/a> tried to blow up a synagogue in Michigan and another Islamist terrorist opened fire at Old Dominion University<\/a>; \u201cIt\u2019s difficult.\u201d<\/p>\n

The burden, he explained: Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) retweeted a post of Mamdani at an iftar at City Hall, next to a picture of the 9\/11 attacks, noting, \u201cthe enemy is inside the gates.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rep. Brandon Gill (R-Texas) called a photo of the City Hall iftar \u201cstomach churning.\u201d<\/p>\n

City Councilwoman Vickie Paladino has been similarly mean.<\/p>\n

Also, some ISIS-inspired terrorists days earlier had thrown bombs near Gracie Mansion<\/a>, giving the \u201cIslamophobes\u201d yet another pretext to pounce and so feeding the mayor\u2019s aggrieved sense of a world of hatred arrayed against him.<\/p>\n

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Except that none of Tuberville, Gill or Paladino indicated that having a Muslim as mayor is the problem; the problem is having this mayor.<\/p>\n

The \u201cenemy is inside the gates\u201d because Mamdani is a radical socialist<\/a> whose policies will destroy the city, for starters. <\/p>\n

And an apologist for Islamist violence who consistently and offensively uses 9\/11 and the Holocaust as metaphors for the trauma that Muslims go through.<\/p>\n

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And a politician who plays footsy with advocates for violent terror and other hardcore antisemites.<\/p>\n

Mamdani invited Mahmoud Khalil<\/a>, an organizer of the Columbia University protests who lied on his visa application to enter the United States, to dine at Gracie Mansion with their wives, and published an intimate photo of the two couples at table.<\/p>\n

Khalil has stated that he will not condemn Hamas as a matter of principle<\/a>: \u201cIt\u2019s very racist to ask a Palestinian this question,\u201d he whined at an event Sunday. <\/p>\n

Racist how? <\/p>\n

More, he complained: \u201cClaims of antisemitism are being weaponized to silence\u201d brave critics of Israel such as himself.<\/p>\n

No wonder Mamdani is so tight with Khalil: They share so much suffering. <\/p>\n

Reality check, Mr. Mayor: Nobody has a problem with the million Muslims in New York City who go about their business, meaning and doing no harm.<\/p>\n

But no other religion has the same extremism problem, a twisted philosophy used to justify terrorism, including terror attacks against innocents who have nothing to do with grievances about some faraway land.<\/p>\n

Mean words, even actual outright bigoted ones, are still just words: Speech is not violence, and violence is not speech. <\/p>\n

Please, Mr. Mayor: Stop acting like 9\/11 was something bad that<\/a> happened to Muslims, and quit being cozy with terrorist sympathizers.<\/p>\n

It\u2019ll do wonders for your mood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Let us all pity Mayor Zohran Mamdani: Yes, he gets to run America\u2019s greatest city, live in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[19817,304,59,4363,36594,9,24,55,54,56,299,3694,82],"class_list":["post-167219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-columbia-university","tag-editorial","tag-hamas","tag-islamophobia","tag-mahmoud-khalil","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-opinion","tag-terrorism","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167219","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=167219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}