Mamdani visited controversial Brooklyn mosque on campaign trail — just months after the imam called for the annihilation of Israel

NY Post ^ | 07/08/2025 | Anthony Blair

[DFG]

Socialist New York City mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani visited a controversial Brooklyn mosque to pray while on the campaign trail — just months after the imam had called for the destruction of Israel.

Mamdani posted a picture of himself speaking at the Islamic Society of Bay Ridge, alongside firebrand cleric Sheikh Muhammad Al-Barr, on his social media in January.

“It was a privilege to join Jummah prayers at the Islamic Society of Bay Ridge today,” the socialist nominee said in the post on X dated January 17.

Mamdani’s visit came just five months after Al-Barr called on Allah in a fiery sermon at his Bay Ridge mosque to “liberate Palestine from the occupiers and the plunderers.”

“Oh Allah, annihilate those who occupied their lands, and those who betrayed and deserted them, and those who spilled their blood,” the cleric said in Arabic in an August service at the Islamic Society of Bay Ridge’s Masjid ibn Umair.

Al-Barr, whose last name is also spelled “Elbar,” also said that “the mujahideen [Hamas fighters] in Gaza are achieving more than our Arab armies could in 1967 and 1973,” a reference to the Six-Day War and the Yom Kippur War, respectively.

[libertylover]

Will these things matter to NYC Democrats?

[dfwgator]

Of course not.

[ridesthemiles]

WOLF IN SHEEP’S CLOTHING

[RoosterRedux]

Mamdani's antisemitism and Islamic connections may mobilize many Jewish voters this time. If they don't get fired up for this election, they will live to regret it.

Even before Mamdani, antisemitic activity at Columbia put the NYC Jewish population on notice that they are in danger. And it won't go unnoticed that Mamdani's father is a Columbia professor.

[PGalt]

Mosque = Forward Operating Base for Islam - the most EVIL ideology in the history of civilization...still murdering innocent human beings.

[No name given]

Not really, no.

[Salman]

Annihilating Israel is a requirement of their religion.

Some Muslim polities (most famously the Ottoman empire) tolerated Jews (and Christians) for reasons of state. But after all governments don't always follow their official religions in all particulars.

For many individual Muslims outside Muslim lands, it's more of a cultural or ethnic identification, as it might be for many Jews.

But when Muslims get serious about religion, eventual elimination of infidels (especially Christians and Jews) is always on the agenda.

[MinorityRepublican]

Mamdani's antisemitism and Islamic connections may mobilize many Jewish voters this time.

They're Leftists and many of them identify with the Democratic Party.

[RoosterRedux]

Very true. But many of them are also shocked by the blatant antisemitism in the Democrat Party and in NYC.

If Jewish New Yorkers and others don't rise up against Mamdani, antisemitism is going to get really bad in NYC.

Scary bad.

[MinorityRepublican]

They'll just move out of the city.

NYC literally became Gotham in the decades before Rudy took over as the Mayor.

[RoosterRedux]

I lived there for much of my career. Loved it back then.