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Zohran Kwame Mamdani wouldn’t be mayor of New York City today if he weren’t a clever man, and all that cleverness was on abundant display on Monday, when he delivered a much-anticipated major address on the Saturday jihad bombing outside Gracie Mansion. The speech was a masterpiece of misdirection and deflection, as the young mayor did all he could to change the subject from what it really should have been from start to finish.
As PJ’s Scott Pinsker noted on Tuesday morning, “March 8, 2026, is the date that New Yorkers learned the truth about their young mayor, Zohran Mamdani: He’s dishonest about Islamic terror attacks.” Intifada On the Hudson: The Selling of Zohran Mamdani shows that Mamdani is a committed Twelver Shi’ite Muslim with a consistent record of far-left anti-Americanism, and so anyone who had been watching his meteoric rise could have known that Mamdani would downplay and deny Islamic jihad terror while trafficking heavily in the left’s favored tropes about “Islamophobia” and “hate.” In his Monday speech, however, Mamdani went the extra mile to turn an Islamic jihad terror attack into an instance of “anti-Muslim bigotry.”
“On Saturday,” Mamdani began, “a protest was held outside Gracie Mansion, where I live with my wife Rama. Neither of us were home at the time. This was a vile protest rooted in white supremacy, entitled Stop the Islamic Takeover of New York City.” To lead off with this is to try to give the impression, as the establishment media did, that the “vile” protesters who opposed the “Islamic Takeover of New York City” were behind the bombing.
Mamdani reinforced that impression as he continued: “I’m the first Muslim mayor of our city. Anti-Muslim bigotry is nothing new to me, nor is it anything new for the 1 million or so Muslim New Yorkers who know this city as our home.” After this foray into victimhood posturing, he struck an uncharacteristic faux-patriotic pose: “While I found this protest appalling, I will not waver in my belief that it should be allowed to happen. Ours is a free society where the right to peaceful protest is sacred. It does not belong only to those we agree with. It belongs to everyone. I will defend that right every day that I am mayor, even when those protesting say things that I abhor.”
It sounded good, but remember: In New York City, the overwhelming majority of protesters are not demonstrating in favor of anything that Zohran Mamdani abhors; instead, most of them are opposing Israel, which Mamdani abhors as much as the protesters themselves do. When he says “the right to peaceful protest is sacred,” it should be borne in mind that protesters have menaced Jews outside synagogues and chanted calls for the killing of Jews worldwide. Is that the kind of “peaceful protest” that Mamdani has in mind?
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Tony says
Yes. Leftist and Muslim hatred is intense against Non-Muslims to twist the narrative in favor of Muslims and against Non-Muslims. For Islam’s Muslims, Allah in Qur’an 3:54 says, “And they deceived, and Allah deceived. And Allah is the best deceiver.” Allah in Qur’an 8:30 says, “…And Allah is the best deceiver.” Allah in Qur’an 13:42 says, “And indeed, those before them deceived, so to Allah all the deception…”
Donald Breyer says
i think we know who the special guests will be at next year’s Iftar dinner
Luchtpint says
Mamdani has a serious problem on his hands. Given the fact that he’s Shiite, he will probably have a hard time explaining to New Yorkers why muslims won’t see eye to eye. Internecine muslim violence in New York doesn’t really fit his narrative of supposed “unified Islam”.
All the more reason to divert attention to alleged white islamophobes.
OLD GUY says
New Yorkers kind of stepped in it with Mamdani as mayor.