{"id":17385,"date":"2025-10-26T16:09:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T16:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/17385\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T16:09:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T16:09:19","slug":"in-attack-mode-cuomo-rejects-claims-of-islamophobia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/17385\/","title":{"rendered":"In attack mode, Cuomo rejects claims of Islamophobia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo was in Brooklyn Saturday touting the support of faith leaders as early voting<\/a> began. But mostly, he was there to tear down his opponent in the New York City mayor’s race, Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s panicked,\u201d Cuomo said. “He\u2019s desperate.”<\/p>\n

Cuomo spent almost the entirety of his remarks attacking Mamdani, the Queens Assembly member who on Friday made an impassioned speech about the Islamophobia he and other Muslim New Yorkers have experienced.<\/p>\n

What You Need To Know<\/p>\n

Andrew Cuomo has dismissed Zohran Mamdani\u2019s claims the former governor’s attacks contribute to Islamophobia
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Cuomo says a comment made during an interview by a radio host that Mamdani would cheer another 9\/11 was offensive, but that he did not take it seriously<\/p>\n

The Queens Assembly member who on Friday made an impassioned speech about the Islamophobia he and other Muslim New Yorkers have experienced.
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Republican Curtis Sliwa cast his ballot on Day 1 of early voting, defying those calling on him to drop out<\/p>\n

Cuomo dismissed it as an act.<\/p>\n

\u201cNew Yorkers love the Muslim community,\u201d he said. \u201cHe claims that he is the victim\u00a0\u2014 the victim of attacks because he\u2019s a Muslim. Nothing could be further from the truth. He is not a victim. He is the offender.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cuomo failed to push back during a radio interview Thursday when conservative radio host Sid Rosenberg said Mamdani would cheer another 9\/11<\/a>. Cuomo says the comment was offensive and in poor taste, but that he didn\u2019t take it seriously.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat do I care what a radio host says?\u201d he said. \u201cIt has nothing to do with me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mamdani, campaigning in Brooklyn, says his message on affordability is uniting the city.<\/p>\n

Cuomo is \u201callergic to apologizing,\u201d Mamdani said. \u201cIf New Yorkers wanted division and hate, bigotry, they can already find it in Donald Trump. They don\u2019t need it in the next mayor of this city. And that\u2019s why we\u2019ll be turning the page on Andrew Cuomo and that very bigotry on November 4.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, another candidate was seeking to make a statement on day one of early voting. Republican Curtis Sliwa cast his ballot at the American Museum of Natural History, defying those who call him a spoiler.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday, it should be the last time we hear that Curtis Sliwa should drop out,\u201d he told reporters.<\/p>\n

As for Cuomo\u2019s controversial radio interview, Sliwa, a longtime radio host, said controversy comes with the territory.<\/p>\n

\u201cAndy, get your big boy pants on,\u201d he said of Cuomo. \u201cWhen you go on a talk radio program and you say something, own it. Own it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo was in Brooklyn Saturday touting the support of faith leaders as early voting began.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[107,105,117,109,114,25,3284,12128,111,9,24,55,54,12,110,56,87,7675,27,200],"class_list":["post-17385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-2025-nyc-mayors-race","tag-all-markets-rank-everywhere","tag-app-for-your-consideration","tag-app-local-state-politics","tag-app-local-elections","tag-app-top-stories","tag-bobby-cuza","tag-c-block-national","tag-decision-2025","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-news","tag-nnt","tag-ny","tag-politics","tag-religion","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17385","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=17385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}