“You get involved in politics because politics are a weapon to use in the cause of Islam.”
After Zohran Mamdani castigated Cuomo for not visiting a mosque, he showed him how it was done by visiting the Al-Taqwa Mosque and posing smilingly with its Jihadist Imam Siraj Wahhaj.
Mamdani, running to be the city’s first Muslim mayor, had already visited a great many mosques, some, like the Islamic Society of Bay Ridge, already notorious for its support for Hamas and cursing Christians and Jews, but had saved the worst mosque for last.
The progressive candidate openly embraced an imam who not only supported terrorism, but had called for the full application of Islamic Sharia law “If Allah says cut off their hand, you cut off their hand. If Allah says stone them to death” and the execution of gay people “kill them both” at a mosque whose spokesman had denounced women who wear perfume as “deviant”.
Mamdani was betting that the media would keep quiet or play defense for his campaign and he was right. The New York Times swiftly accused Cuomo of ‘Islamophobia’ and defended Wahhaj, claiming that the imam had told followers not to personally go out and kill gay people.
Seven years ago, the New York Times had cautiously noted that Wahhaj “has for decades been the imam of Masjid at-Taqwa, which several people connected to the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center either attended or visited around the time of the attack.” Now it’s a campaign stop.
Long before the Mamdani photo op, the Al-Taqwa Mosque had been a known intersection for Islamic terrorists including the Blind Sheikh at the center of the World Trade Center bombing and Farooque Ahmed who tried to help Al Qaeda blow up the D.C. Metro.
Mamdani, who had pledged to defund the NYPD, spoke at the mosque which had been under NYPD surveillance because, in the words of a legal filing by New York City, the mosque’s Imam was “named as an unindicted co-conspirator in a plot to bomb a number of New York City landmarks”, “illegal weapons trafficking by members of the mosque’s security team” and that “the assistant Imam had earmarked portions of over $200,000 raised in the mosque to… terrorist organizations.”
But what was grounds for NYPD surveillance a decade ago was the scene of a political rally by Mamdani complete with chants of “Allahu Akbar” as Mamdani doubled down on his support for Islamic terrorism. Then Mamdani posed for a grinning photo with Imam Siraj Wahhaj.
Imam Siraj Wahhaj had previously endorsed Mamdani and donated to his campaign, but now the mayoral candidate had decided to publicly embrace an imam who had championed the most brutal forms of Islamic sharia law, endorsed terrorism and called for a takeover of America.
“If you get involved in politics, you have to be very careful that your leader is for Allah. You don’t get involved in politics because it’s the American thing to do,” Imam Wahhaj had preached. “You get involved in politics because politics are a weapon to use in the cause of Islam.”
“Wherever you came from, you came to America. And you came for one reason—for one reason only—to establish Allah’s deen,” Wahhaj had told Muslims and predicted that, “democracy will crumble, and there will be nothing, and the only thing that will remain will be Islam.” --->READ MORE HERE
We have seen where all this leads.
Some polls say that a majority of New York Jews intend to vote for Zohran Mamdani—and those polls may be accurate. After all, the polls give him a commanding lead virtually across the board. If you are one of the Jewish voters in New York City who is about to vote for Mamdani, you may admire his progressive values and be willing to overlook his inveterate opposition to Israel because, after all, you don’t want to be a single-issue voter. You understand that politicians employ a great deal of rhetoric but generally don’t implement the more radical elements of their programs.
Yet there are good reasons to hesitate. Lots of them. I set them out in my new book, Intifada on the Hudson: The Selling of Zohran Mamdani.
You may not be inclined to credit what I have to say here about Zohran Mamdani. After all, I am not Jewish, so you might find it presumptuous of me to address you in the aggregate in the first place. And not only that: you may doubt what I have to tell you about Mamdani and the machine from which he emerges because I also have a reputation as a “right-wing Islamophobe.”
While I personally think such labels are at best misleading and at worst actively defamatory, I understand your hesitation.
Yet I’ve also written a book about the contemporary resurgence of antisemitism, Antisemitism: History and Myth, about which Dennis Prager said: “I do not believe a more important book on antisemitism has ever been written.” Another book I’ve written, The Palestinian Delusion: The Catastrophic History of the Middle East Peace Process, has won wide acclaim as a valuable guide for the defense of Israel.
I am, in other words, someone who is deeply concerned about the Jews because I am deeply concerned about the human rights of all people, and I cannot stand by idly as an entire people is demonized.
That’s why I am asking you most urgently to think very carefully about Zohran Mamdani. Just as we have seen where socialism leads, so also we have seen where the large-scale demonization of the Jews leads. Zohran Mamdani and both of his famous and fabulously wealthy parents have been consistent throughout their public careers in their inveterate opposition to Israel and their willingness to believe the most lurid and lightly sourced charges against the Jewish state. Zohran Mamdani even says that support for the Palestinian jihad against Israel is what initially made him a socialist and galvanized him to become an activist. --->READ MORE HERE
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