Worst surge in New York City terrorism in almost a decade.
The last time an Islamic terrorist attack was carried out in New York City before Mamdani was in Times Square on the last day of 2022.
In the 7 months since Mamdani took office, there have already been two terror attacks.
The mass stabbing in Manhattan by an ex-con shouting “Allahu Akbar” followed a previous attack on a protest rally against Islamization at the mayoral residence of Gracie Mansion by two Muslim teenagers throwing homemade bombs.
In previous years, Christian Sturdivant, a convert to Islam, had been arrested on December 31, 2025, over a New Year’s Eve stabbing spree plot in New York City which, had it been carried out, would have taken place hours before Mamdani took office.
Sturdivant had posted, “May Allah curse the cross worshipers.”
Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, a Pakistani Muslim operating in Canada, had plotted to mark the Hamas atrocities of Oct 7 with a terror attack against Jewish synagogues in Brooklyn on the same date in 2024.
Both of these religiously themed Muslim attacks, one aimed at Jews and one at Christians, were a once-a-year occasion, but there have already been two Islamic terror attacks in just the first 7 months of Mamdani’s reign, with possibly more to come before the first year is even out.
This is a shocking increase of 243% in terror attacks across just two and a half years.
3 out of 4 Islamic terrorist plots in New York City in the last three years took place after Mamdani’s election ‘victory’. What role did his campaign and election play in emboldening the Islamic terrorists who plotted them is an important question in understanding the terror surge.
A surge that some are already calling the ‘Mamdani Effect’.
Furthermore it is important to once again emphasize that the Muslim terror plots in 2024 and 2025 remained plans and were not executed, while the two attacks under Mamdani were.
We have to go all the way back to 2022 to find a successfully implemented Muslim attack.
To find a year where there were not just one but two Muslim terror attacks, we have to go all the way back to 2017 during which Sayfullo Saipov, an Uzbek Muslim who had scored a Diversity Immigrant Lottery visa, rammed his car into numerous people in Manhattan, killing 8 and wounding 13, and Akayed Ullah, a Bangladeshi Muslim, whose uncle had also won a Diversity Immigrant Lottery visa, tried to detonate a pipe bomb in the New York City subway.
2017 was a record year for Islamic terrorist attacks because after years of coddling ISIS under Obama, the Trump administration had unleashed a ruthless campaign that broke the terror group. This led to a wave of global attacks by Muslims in support of the organization they believed had been chosen by Allah to destroy non-Muslims and usher in a new Caliphate.
There were no global events that should have led to a similar wave of Sunni attacks in 2026 and while Islamic terrorists continue to carry out attacks, there’s been no significant global surge.
And yet Islamic terrorist attacks are up 243% in New York City with the single worst surge of attacks in almost a decade. Whatever is causing this can only be attributed to New York City.
And it cannot be a mere coincidence that 3 of the 4 terror plots in the last three years line up with the Mamdani campaign.
Freedom Center Investigates had previously documented Mamdani’s ties to terrorism including his visit to the Al-Taqwa Mosque, which used to be under NYPD surveillance, embracing its religious leader, Imam Siraj Wahhaj, an unindicted co-conspirator in the WTC bombing, who called America “filthy”, preached “I will never ever tell people, ‘don’t be violent, that is not the Islamic way.’ The violence has to be selected” and declared that getting involved in “politics is a weapon in the cause of Islam”. His son was later charged in a terrorism plot. Mamdani had also joined ‘prayers’ at the Islamic Society of Bay Ridge whose imam had been caught on video praying for victory for Hamas, imploring “Allah to make them strong and guide their shooting.”
Mamdani had repeatedly spoken out to excuse and cover for Islamic terrorists on social media
His transition team and staff included multiple terror lawyersincluding Mamdani’s Chief Counsel, Ramzi Kassem, who had claimed that 9/11 was due to the “resentment these terrorists felt towards the United States” as a result of “our country’s policies” and argued that “terrorism is but one of many reactions to oppression and dispossession and not their cause.”
In Lebanon, Kassem had boasted about throwing stones at Israelis.
Mamdani’s political guru, Linda Sarsour, had bragged, “I would be honored to die a martyr” and, as Middle East Forum noted,she was involved in an organization a Hamas front group had tried to direct funds to. Mamdani’s first endorsement, Aber Kawas, now the Democrat nominee for state senate, had described an Al Qaeda terrorist and Hamas fundraisers as “imprisoned heroes” and called another Muslim terrorist who plotted to bomb a synagogue as “my brother.”
Can the 243% increase in Islamic terrorist attacks in New York City really be connected to anything other than the rise of a political network openly supportive of Islamic terrorism?
Across the river, Democrats have nominated Hisham ‘Adam’ Hamawy as a congressional candidate, even though he had translated for and testified for the ‘Blind Sheikh’ linked to the World Trade Center bombing and subsequent Islamic terror plots against New York City, and even though he had volunteered for an Al Qaeda linked group.
The growing political power of the Islamic terror lobby is naturally leading to a surge in Islamic terror violence. The mobs waving Hamas and Hezbollah flags in the streets of New York City are normalizing Islamic terrorism and the more it’s normalized, the more of it there will be.
Mamdani is a symptom of how the political support for Islamic terrorism among New York and New Jersey Democrats is translating into more Islamic terrorism in the region. The more power that the political supporters of Islamic terrorism get, the worse the terrorist attacks will become.
somehistory says
It’s so obvious. The people of NYC selected a muzzlim terrorist (as a supporter of terrorism, he is one) to rule over them.
What goes up, must come down. Fire is hot. Water is wet…in all of its forms. And a muzzlim will encourage other muzzlims to commit acts of terror.
A guy running for governor in TN, wants to ban islam and the muzzlim barracks….he points out that it’s a political thing and the TN constitution allows the banning.
The State of CT has a new law that schools must teach islam and islamic/arabic studies.
CT will soon be like NYC….and perhaps, worse.
And the terrorism in NY will grow worse. The innocent people should prepare themselves for the remembrance in September.
Taffy says
Yes, schools in CT should teach Islam with the proviso that Robert Spenser and David Wood create the curriculum, and syllabus for each course.
Patton says
Almost 50,000 attacks worldwide since 911 and more than 300,000 people killed. I’m wondering if the New York Times, CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC or the Washington Post are starting to see a pattern here? Asking for a friend.
Rod says
50,000 attacks with more than 300,000 killed since 9/11?
I do have to wonder where such improbable numbers come from. Perhaps from the same source as Mr Greenfield’s ridiculous 243%.
It’s interesting to remember though, that in the USA there are !5,000 to 20,000 homicides per year. Meaning that there have been at least 350,000 Americans murdered by Americans since 9/11.
Worse than terrorism?
Wellington says
Rod: You can go to thereligionofpeace.com for details of the over 49,000 Islamic terrorist attacks that have occurred worldwide just since 9/11. Have you ever done so? Do you even know this site exists? You can actually click on this site here at JW or are you clueless here too? I suspect so since you seem to be clueless about so much, all the while manifesting an insouciant ignorance that is risible to people like me even though you keep persisting in a fantasy, i.e., that you are sapient and well informed—but you ain’t.
As for homicides here in America, you don’t seem to comprehend two things: 1) America has the third largest population of any nation on Earth and so will for this reason alone have more incarceration; and (far more important) 2) America has more freedoms than any polity in history and thus it is statistically not only probable but a certainty that there will be more abuse of these freedoms by a small percentage of American society.
America is the single greatest experiment in liberty ever and this has to come with some negatives as well as many positives. Do you grasp even this, Rod? Bet not.
You don’t really like America, do you? And you clearly know very little about America. This you have demonstrated in numerous comments of yours. And I will leave you with this: America, even with its faults, is the greatest polity of all time (this is why so many have wanted to come here or don’t you even understand this?) and has done more good in more ways for mankind than any other polity ever. Bet you won’t comprehend this either but go ahead and shatter me and tell me what polity in all of man’s history has been a greater beacon of hope and what is good, has liberated more people across the Earth than any other city-state, nation or empire, and has been more generous to others than America. Give it a shot.
Your turn. If you wish. If you can.
Rod says
Trump’s salient characteristics – ignorance, stupidity, racism, abuse, violence. They seem often to go together. None of them useful in rational debate, as we see over and over again.. But I acknowledge your abuse for what it’s worth.
The USA of the past, of which I stood in awe during my several visits, is long gone.
The heroes of 1776, whose courage, ingenuity, determination won you your independence are long dead.
Now we have the foul-mouthed abusive lying Donald Trump, and the sad folk who cannot see what he really is, betraying and besmirching the treasures you inherited.
Your freedoms and democracy are crumbling away as we watch. The mid-terms are likely to bring crisis and collapse. Many around the world who have suffered at America’s hands, will shed no tears.
Tell me then what you’re proud of.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Rod
I did notice that you sidestepped each one of Wellington’s questions. Somehow, Orange man bad is not a refutation of his points about the country itself
Rod says
Well, infidel, it seemed pointless to refute an absurd claim.
Yes, the USA did liberate lots of people – not however single handed. It was in collaboration with Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Sth Africa, China, India, Russia (of course), various European countries, and who knows how many small others which helped and paid in blood and sacrifice. How strange to claim sole credit for America, but how unsurprising.
Nor did Wellington remind us that the USA weren’t there in 1939-40-41, just as they weren’t there in 1914-15-16.
Then there are the many, many places where the USA staunchly supported tyranny, dictators, suppression of democratic movements. Places like Cuba, Chile, Argentina, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Iran (yes, since 1953), Iraq, Pakistan, etc, etc.
Then there are Nth Korea (bombed until no substantial structure was left standing), and Vietnam where millions died. Now Iran – same old, same old.
I could go on, but that’s enough for now.
OLD GUY says
And it will get worse!
David M says
This looks like an invading Moroccan Muslim army to me.
https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/absolute-chaos-thousands-of-people-rush-across-moroccan-border-hoping-to-get-to-europe-20260731-p60k75.html
David M says
Some good news, the video of the two Sydney Muslim nurses threatening the Jewish guy will now be allowed when they go to court soon. The Muslims will not be pleased.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-31/video-sydney-nurses-alleged-menacing-comments-/106982898
somehistory says
That is good, David.
Walter Sieruk says
It’s very obvious , or should be , that the vast increase on Muslims engaging in violent and malicious Muslim attack of Islamic terrorism in New York City is those same jihad-minded Muslim attackers have become boldly arrogant because they have pro- Islamic Muslim mayor in NYC to back them up.
Walter Sieruk says
Zohan Mamdani is an actural real jihad-minded violence inciting ,and even murder fomenting villain of the most dispicable sort.
Mamdani belongs in prison , and not in the office of mayor in New York City..
Walter Sieruk says
To say the Zohan Mamdani is a “rabblerouser” is a very mild term to describe him.
It would be more actuate description of him would be to say that he’s criminal inciting Islamic fiendish villain .
tgusa says
Mamdani being voted in was an islamist attack.
somehistory says
And his time is office is an extended one. Lots of victims. Lots.
Tim gallagher says
That’s Islam for you straight out of that evil instruction book, the Koran. I can’t believe almost every non Muslim has not seen how evil islam is by now. Then again the trendy lefties probably see this as a good thing since they have that insane level of hate for Israel and all Jews. It is all the fashion these days for trendy lefties and always has been for evil Muslim scum.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Speaking of Mamdani, I do hope that the petition to prevent him from appearing at the 9/11 memorial this year succeeds in keeping him away from it. Also, while on Mamdani, it’s funny to see him do a backflip on arresting Netanyahu – finally admitting that he can’t
I do hope that by 2027, there is a more credible candidate from either party that can replace him. But given the track record of Bill de Blassio, I fear the worst
Troybeam says
Anyone surprised by this?
Islam is bad says
“…I can’t believe almost every non Muslim has not seen how evil islam is by now…”
Totally agree.
If attacks in the name of Islam in the past quarter of a century, like:
9/11 in 2001; Bali bombings in 2002; Madrid train bombing and Beslan school massacre in 2004; London Underground and bus bombings in 2005; Glasgow airport attack in 2007; Mumbai attacks in 2008; Boston marathon bombing, murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby in London, and the Westgate Mall attack in Nairobi in 2013; the Lindt Cafe siege in Sydney in 2014; attack on Charlie Hedbo journalists in Paris in January 2015 and later attacks in November on the Bataclan theatre, Paris, in November 2015 followed by the shooting in December 2015 in San Bernardino, California; the truck attack in Nice, France in July 2016 and later vehicle attack on the Berlin Christmas markets in December 2016; attacks in London and the attack on girls attending the concert at Manchester Arena in 2017; further attacks in London in 2019; the 7 October 2023 massacre attack on Israel; and the Bondi Beach massacre in Australia in December 2025; just to name just a few attacks, indicates that anyone who can’t understand how evil islam is by now is either choosing not to understand because they support the attacks in the name of Islam, or don’t want to be honest about the motive for the attacks, or is seriously learning impaired.