Commentators lined up in the prominent Magazine launched xenophobia attacks on Zoran Mamdani over Muslim religion, a 33-year-old state legislator, after his major democratic victory in the mayoral election in New York City.
In a series of posts, conservative social media personality Laura Loomer wrote:New York City Muslims will be “destroyed”Commit Jihad During New York” and the “NYC is I’m trying to see 9/11 2.0. ”
If elected in November, Mamdani will become the first Muslim mayor in New York City’s history. And while many conservatives criticize Mamdani’s progressive policies, others aim for Mamdani for his religion.
“Twenty-four years ago, a group of Muslims killed 2,753 people on 9/11,” says conservative activist Charlie Kirk Posted on xrefers to the number of people killed in New York. “Now we have a pace for Muslim socialists to run New York City.”
“New York City has collapsed,” says Donald Trump Jr. I wrote, quote a Posted by Michael Maris About the New Yorker “when he endured 9/11 instead of voting for it.”
“After 9/11, we said, ‘I’ll never forget.’ I think we’ve sadly forgotten,” Rep. Nancy Mace (Rs.C.) X Posted on Wednesdayaccompanied by a photo of a mum tick.
Mamdani’s campaign did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the statement.
Mamdani, a democratic socialist, won 43.5% of the number one vote in New York’s ranked voting system. Former Governor Andrew Cuomo, who was once favourite to film the previous primary, was recognized by Mamdani on Tuesday night. However, the city’s election commission is not expected to confirm the results until early July, when a single optional vote was counted.
During the primary, some Mamdani critics, including Super PAC Backing Cuomo, said he was either engaging in anti-Semitism, or in particular supporting anti-Semitic views about his stance on Israel.
He repeatedly criticized Israel’s actions in Gaza. June interview Mamdani said, along with the breakwater, the phrase “globalization of intifadas” represents “a hopeless desire for equality and equal rights to rise up for Palestinian human rights.” Mamdani has garnered intense criticism of the statement, marking a tension point in primary elections in cities with a large number of Muslim and Jewish residents.
He opposed the anti-Semitic label and condemned violence against the Jews of the country.
“I have said on every opportunity that there is no room for anti-Semitism in this city, in this country,” he said. Emotional press conference on the closing day of the raceAdding the reason he doesn’t have a “visceral response” to being labeled is because it was “colored by the fact that when I speak, especially when I speak with emotions, I am characterized as a monster by those same rivals.
At the same press conference, he said he faced serious attacks for his religion.
“I get the message “Only a good Muslim is a dead Muslim.” I pose a threat to my life, to those I love,” he said at the press conference.
