“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.”
“If 6-8 million Muslims unite in America, the country will come to us,” he predicted.
Mamdani’s mayoral campaign is in many ways the fulfillment of Wahhaj’s vision of an Islamic takeover. And the connection between Mamdani and Wahhaj goes deeper than one event.
Before Mamdani carpetbagged his way to Queens to displace a local councilwoman in a district being settled by fellow Pakistani and Bangladeshi ‘Indian’ Muslims, he got his start in politics as a board member of the Muslim Democratic Club of New York (MDCNY). MDCNY had been co-founded by Linda Sarsour, who recently bragged, “I would be honored to die a martyr”, and who had described Wahhaj as her “a mentor” and “my favorite person in the room.”
When Mamdani became a board member at MDCNY, he joined a board that included not only Sarsour, but her close friend, Faiza Ali, the former ‘Community Affairs Director’ for CAIR, which recently came out in defense of Wahhaj, and which has endorsed the Hamas attacks of Oct 7, Debbie Almontaser, whose “Intifada NYC” ended her previous effort to create a Muslim public school and Aliya Latif, whose brother Imam Khalid Latif had hailed Wahhaj as his hero.
Imam Khalid Latif and Sarsour recently fronted an MDCNY event at the ‘Middle Church’ on championing Mamdani’s campaign. But Imam Latif’s biggest moment in the spotlight came after the Islamic terrorist attack at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando when it turned out that the killer had joined a trip led by Latif to Mecca after which the future shooter was flagged by the FBI.
Key MDCNY figures had backed the lawsuits against the NYPD that had dismantled its ability to monitor Islamic terror mosques like Al-Taqwa and paved the way for future terrorist attacks.
But, as Sirraj Wahhaj had preached, “I will never ever tell people, ‘don’t be violent, that is not the Islamic way.’ The violence has to be selected.” The selected violence over the years had included members of the Al-Taqwa mosque’s security team styling themselves “Jihad warriors” and “Jihad assassins”. One of those participants, Farooque Ahmed, was sentenced to 23 years in prison for plotting an attack on a rail station in Arlington, Virginia, when he scouted the area and then handed over his findings to what he believed was an Al-Qaeda terrorist, advising him to plant the bombs during the commute to maximize casualties.
More recently, Wahhaj’s son and family members were busted running a terrorist training camp for kids in New Mexico. The targets were to be “military, law enforcement, and financial institutions.” But violence has always surrounded Wahhaj without ever denting his influence.
Two years before the World Trade Center bombing, Rep. Nick Rahall made Imam Wahhaj the first Muslim to recite a prayer in Congress. Wahhaj had invited the Blind Sheikh, at the center of the terror plots in the city to speak at his mosque and defended him in court.
Then, two years after 9/11, the Brooklyn borough president created Imam Sirraj Wahhaj Day.
Mamdani’s deliberate normalization of Wahhaj was part of an ongoing project by the Islamist groups like MDCNY and CAIR to not just normalize the man, but what he really stands for.
“If only Muslims were clever politically, they could take over the United States and replace its constitutional government with a caliphate,” Wahhaj had advised and Mamdani is clever.
“I pray one day, Inshallah, Allah will bless us to raise an army and I’m serious about this. We were very close, recently. We had made intention to raise an army of 10,000 men in NY City. Muslim men to go fight…And the day is going to come, when that happens,” he preached.
That day is now here.
somehistory says
If the dam mani was on trial, there would now be enough evidence to convict him of a crime….supporting terrorism and supporting the takedown of the U.S. government.
James Lincoln says
It certainly sounds about right to me, somehistory.
somehistory says
Thank you, James.
Walter Sieruk says
It’s been said before, nevertheless worth reiterating . Which is that “A person can discern the true character of a man by who he chooses to be his friends and associates.” In other words, the company he keeps reveals what he’s really like.
This photograph of Zohran Mamdani with his friends divulges much about him.
somehistory says
“MAGA Congressman Tells Muslim American: “My Wife Doesn’t Want to Hear Your Oppressive Prayer Calls””
“At the No Kings demonstration in Washington, D.C., British-born political pundit and Trump critic Medhi Hasan, who is Muslim, asserted that America’s freedom of religion clause, as contemplated in the First Amendment, applies to all religions. Offering an example, Hasan said: “I think if you can play church bells, you can play the call for prayer.” Referring to his and others’ Muslim American status, Hasan added, “We are as American as anyone else.”
[NOTE: The First Amendment contains two provisions concerning religion, the Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause. As the uscourts.gov explains: “The Establishment clause prohibits the government from establishing a religion. The Free Exercise Clause protects citizens’ right to practice their religion as they please, so long as the practice does not run afoul of a ‘public morals’ or a ‘compelling’ governmental interest.”]
MAGA-aligned Congressman Brendon Gill (R-TX) responded to Hasan’s comment on social media, saying: “We can move here en masse and fundamentally transform the landscape of American public life.” The remark refers to the anti-immigration stance holding that mass immigration is designed to undermine what Gill and others characterize as true American identity, which they see as based in Christianity.
(It’s estimated that less than 1.4% percent of the American population is Muslim, a number that could reach 2% by 2050. Approximately 42% of Muslims in America were born in the U.S. Of the world’s nations, only Vatican City — the world’s smallest country — has no Muslim population.)
When Hasan replied to Gill, “Your wife is an Indian American, the daughter of an Indian immigrant,” Gill replied: “My wife is a Christian and doesn’t want to hear your oppressive Muslim prayer calls, either. If you want to live in a Muslim country, go back to the UK.”
Note: Gill is married to Danielle D’Souza, daughter of Indian-American right-wing political commentator Dinesh D’Souza, who was born in India to Catholic parents.
Hasan replied: “Multiple sitting GOP members of Congress now sound like Ku Klux Klan wizards. The levels of ignorance, racism, and Christian nationalism are off the charts. Good luck to the poor Muslim Americans who have to live in this guy’s district.”
Gill represents Texas’s 26th congressional district (population 884,703) which includes parts of Denton, Tarrant, and Collin counties. According to 2020 data from the Association of Religion Data Archives, there were an estimated 37,413 Muslims in Collin County, 31,421 in Tarrant County, and 6,868 in Denton County.
Note: On the day Hasan became a naturalized citizen of the United States on October 9, 2020, he wrote: “I’m officially a citizen of the United States and ready to vote, weeks before the most consequential U.S. election of our lifetimes.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/maga-congressman-tells-muslim-american-my-wife-doesn-t-want-to-hear-your-oppressive-prayer-calls/ar-AA1OZ0pb?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=68f960253cb649c8bd01c1b30d5043a2&ei=46
Reziac says
Correct answer: I’ll go to a mosque when you go to a synagogue.
WPM says
The correct answer is I am not obligate to go to ever kind of house of worship in the area I am elected to represent. Be it the 12 kinds of Christian sects ,the 4 kinds of Jewish sects ,the 3 kinds of Moslems sects ,or the different Hindu and Buddhist Temples ,I believe in the separation of church and state. I am happy to meet with church leaders at my office not in their houses of worship especial during services. I will not cross the line of being on the alter to get endorsements during services. What my religious beliefs are between myself and my God ,I firmly BELIEVE in the SEPERATION of church and state. Cuomo the block of wood could not respond and the clown Zohan keep interrupting him in the first debate.
somehistory says
You are right….there is no rule, precedent or law which says a politician must go to any place of worship. Not going to a muzzie barracks is not a *failure*….it’s good, moral sense.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
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gravenimage says
Mamdani has been to both Churches and Synagogues–and Hindu and Sikh Temples–probably because he wants to see them turned into Mosques…
OLD GUY says
Not to worry the muslim’s will take care of the religion issue. They firmly believe in killing all non Islamic followers, Islam is political and under its rule there is no separation of religion and state. There is also a lot of pedophiles, slavery and murder in the name of Allah. Islam’s goal is to take over the world with their dirty sick political religion. Mamdani is and Islamic foot soldier.
somehistory says
“Zohran Mamdani’s US citizenship should be investigated: GOP Rep”
“Florida Representative Randy Fine wrote on X that “we have clearly suffered from massive naturalization fraud,” claiming that some immigrants “swore an oath to America but clearly came to destroy it.”
In his post, Fine said it was “time to go back and review every naturalization of the past 30 years, starting with Mamdani, Omar, and Hasan—and where fraud is found, denaturalize and deport.” He was referring to Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, who was born in Somalia, and journalist Mehdi Hasan, who was born in the UK, both of whom are Muslim.
Earlier this month, Fine, a Jewish Republican who represents a district in Florida, referred to Mamdani on X as “little more than a Muslim terrorist” and said he should be “deported to the Ugandan s**thole he came from.”In June, Republican Representative Andy Ogles of Tennessee urged the Department of Justice to investigate whether Mamdani had “procured U.S. citizenship through willful misrepresentation,” citing lyrics from Mamdani’s old rap songs as alleged evidence of links to groups convicted of funding terrorism. Ogles went further on social media, calling Mamdani an “antisemitic, socialist, communist” who “needs to be deported,” and demanding that he be subjected to denaturalization proceedings.
In the same month, New York City Council Member and fellow Republican Vickie Paladino also called for Mamdani to be deported. “Let’s just talk about how insane it is to elect someone to any major office who hasn’t even been a U.S. citizen for 10 years—much less a radical leftist who actually hates everything about the country and is here specifically to undermine everything we’ve ever been about,” she said.
The New York Young Republican Club, whose members are Republicans in Manhattan aged 18 to 40, also posted on X that Mamdani’s citizenship should be revoked under the Communist Control Act, urging that he be “promptly deported.” The group described him as a “radical” threat to New York City.
In July, President Donald Trump weighed in, saying “a lot of people are saying he’s here illegally” and that his administration “would look at everything,” according to Politico. Trump later suggested that Mamdani could face arrest if he pursued policies limiting immigration enforcement.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/zohran-mamdani-s-us-citizenship-should-be-investigated-gop-rep/ar-AA1P1t2k?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=68fa49d9e7b4414ca980a92ad66edcbb&ei=16
gravenimage says
Mamdani’s Terror Mosque Called for Taking Over America
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What’s not to like? sarc/off