Miranda Devine: Zohran Mamdanis smiley meeting with terror-linked imam is just his latest full embrace of radical Islam
It’s hard to believe that 24 years after 9/11, New York City is on the brink of voting in a Uganda-born Islamist mayor who campaigned last week with an unindicted co-conspirator in the first World Trade Center terrorist attack that killed six New Yorkers.Three weeks before the election, polling says that the runaway front-runner, the perpetually smiling democratic socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani, 33, will be this city’s first Muslim mayor.And not just any Muslim, but an unapologetic Islamo-Marxist who appears to have been carefully constructed for electoral success in the same political laboratory as Barack Obama.Mamdani is so cocky that he boasted on social media about his Friday visit to radical Imam Siraj Wahhaj at his Bedford-Stuyvesant mosque, despite Wahhaj’s links to terrorists, and his openly homophobic rants.Wahhaj is “a pillar of the Bed-Stuy community for nearly half a century,” Mamdani wrote on X posting a photo of himself and the imam with their arms around each other on Friday.The imam, who wants Shariah law imposed on the US, is “one of the nation’s foremost Muslim leaders,” according to slippery Mamdani.For military veterans like Mark Lucas, 43, who answered the call to defend this country after 9/11, Mamdani’s ascent is a kick in the guts.“There’s a lot of emotions,” says the father of three.
“This is tearing open wounds for veterans all across America.“I’m a small-town Iowa guy.For a while I didn’t believe [Mamdani could win], I thought there’s no way this is going to happen,” he said.
“Then after the debate last week I saw his numbers go up and I saw all these black-pilled people online giving up on New York ..
.I can’t stand people who give up.
We can’t write off the city that is the most visible icon of the United States of America.”Lucas, who grew up in Wilton, Iowa, was 19 on Sept.11, 2001.
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