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It looks like New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani is feeling quite confident after his first general election debate.
Despite being a self-avowed socialist, the young Democrat upstart seems likely to be the next mayor of the “financial capital” of the United States. Just as remarkably, Mamdani is apparently willing to pal around with Islamists just weeks before the election.
On Saturday, Mamdani, who is a New York State assemblyman, released a photo of himself smiling with Democrat City Councilman Yusef Salaam, one of the Central Park Five, and Imam Siraj Wahhaj.
Wahhaj isn’t just some ordinary imam. He is a radical Islamist. Then U.S. Attorney Mary Joe White labeled him an “unindicted co-conspirator” in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Wahhaj was never charged in the case, but several members of his mosque were.
Here’s what the Post had to say about the photo: “Lefty NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani gleefully campaigned this week with a notorious, gay-hating Brooklyn imam who is an unindicted co-conspirator in 1993 World Trade Center bombing and who has been linked to other terrorist activity in the United States—including urging ‘jihad’ on the Big Apple.”
Needless to say, some of the survivors and witnesses of the 1993 bombing weren’t too happy about the photo-op.
Mamdani lashed out at his critics and said they were attacking him for his “faith,” but many were quick to take to social media to dredge up clips of Wahhaj calling America a “garbage can” and celebrating jihad.
Mamdani’s Republican opponent, Curtis Sliwa, blasted him for posting photo. He called Wahhaj “dangerous.”
Vice President JD Vance remarked on the photo on X.
President Donald Trump weighed in too, saying that it would be a “disaster” if such a man became mayor of New York.
?Trump is trying to WARN NYC about how HORRIBLE Mamdani would be if he wins.
"We can't have a COMMUNIST in charge! It's gonna be very TOUGH for him!"
Mamdani is a PROUD communist and an ally of islamic extremism.
It CAN'T HAPPEN! pic.twitter.com/kSXbWO91aH
(@GuntherEagleman) October 21, 2025
This photo with a radical imam would have likely been a smaller deal if it wasn’t part of a consistent pattern from Mamdani and his cohorts.
Mamdani has notable refused to denounce the phrase “globalize the intifada,” and only went as far as to say he would “discourage” its use.
In an interview last Wednesday with Fox News’ Martha MacCallum, Mamdani repeatedly dodged whether he thought Hamas should disarm, as is required in the recently signed Middle East peace agreement. When challenged about his non-answer in Thursday night’s mayoral debate, he said, “Of course I believe they should lay down their arms,” which, of course, is not the same thing as giving up their weapons.
In 2017 Mamdani made a rap video celebrating the Holy Land Five, the directors of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development who were convicted in 2008 for giving millions of dollars in support to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.
In the song he uses the lyrics, “My love to the Holy Land Five. You better look them up.”
Yes, I suggest you do.
Whatever Mamdani’s actual current beliefs, it’s clear that the self-avowed socialist is perfectly happy to hook his wagon to various Islamists. He’s certainly not willing to disavow their causes. The fact that he’s the clear frontrunner in the New York City mayoral race, whatever the circumstances of the election, is stunning. After all, despite New York’s connection to far-left politics, it’s still the location of 9/11, of the worst terrorist attack on American soil that took the lives of nearly 3,000 people.
Maybe this is just how things work out in a society detached from history, where millions of young people slurp up propaganda about how Osama bin Laden had a point.
It does show just how far gone the Democratic Party is at this point that they’ve presented New York voters with the choice of voting for a socialist who also pals around with radical imams. That’s quite a package. Most Democrats, including Gov. Kathy Hochul, have come around to supporting this man, including offering their endorsements. There have been a few wobbly holdouts, like House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, but even that tepid resistance seems to be crumbling.
As I previously noted, Mamdani represents the zeitgeist of the Democrat Party base. He’s collected under his banner a collage of seemingly incongruous groups whose uniting principles seem to revolve around anti-Americanism and opposition to Trump.
It’s a growing coalition that is dangerous not just to New York City but to the whole country.
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