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From scapegoats to city hall: how New York Muslims built power and shaped Zohran Mamdani
The Guardian ^ | Fri 24 Oct 2025 | Moustafa Bayoumi

Posted on 10/24/2025 12:26:34 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Life was never the same for New Yorkers after the terrorist attacks of September 11 2001, with every resident coping with the trauma and devastation of that day.

But for Muslim New Yorkers there was an added burden: the suspicion and sometimes physical harm now lurking around every corner.

Vigilante violence against Arabs and Muslims exploded across the city and around the country. In what feels very much like a precursor to today’s ruthless ICE raids, mass arrests swept up Muslims on flimsy immigration pretexts, with many of them being held under extremely abusive conditions. The contemporary national security state was born atop the vestiges of Muslim civil rights.

Twenty-four years later, the situation in New York appears completely different. The country’s largest city is now poised to elect its first Muslim mayor, Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old democratic socialist who won the Democratic slot on the ranked-choice primary earlier this summer. What accounts for this profound change?

The practically unstoppable rise of the man with a smile as wide as the West Side Highway can certainly be explained by his oratorical gifts and political skills. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, among others, has described him as a “once-in-a-generation leader”. But Mamdani’s success is also part of a larger story of how young Muslim New Yorkers have been organizing themselves after the dangerous situations they were in after 9/11.

Spurred by the necessity to counter a rising tide of Islamophobia, young Muslim New Yorkers have spent years developing political power in the city, building local political institutions, and leaning into a different kind of politics, one that embraces identity yet also moves beyond its sometimes shallow appeal. That movement has been growing quietly and steadily for years. Mamdani is now its best and most accomplished expression.

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1 posted on 10/24/2025 12:26:34 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican
Vigilante violence against Arabs and Muslims exploded across the city and around the country.

Standard left-wing "advocacy" or "emotive" journalism. Spin the narrative above all. Facts do not matter, because it regardless, it "could" be true, and the main goal is to achieve the political result, not an exposition of actual facts.

2 posted on 10/24/2025 12:31:19 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: MinorityRepublican

Make no mistake, the suspicion is still there today.


3 posted on 10/24/2025 12:32:39 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: MinorityRepublican

SAY GOODBYE TO TOURISM & ANY KIND OF INVESTMENT IN REAL ESTATE.


4 posted on 10/24/2025 12:42:28 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Just wait until Mayor Mooselimb grants NYC Sullivan full-carry to all the aggrieved POC.

Hunting season for Whitey McWhite will be in full swing.
and all the Judges will be . . .

Turban & Hijab Holsters will be all the rage.

Get out while you still can.
Let it all burn.


5 posted on 10/24/2025 12:50:45 PM PDT by Macoozie (Roll MAGA, roll!)
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To: MinorityRepublican
… But for Muslim New Yorkers there was an added burden: the suspicion and sometimes physical harm now lurking around every corner.

Vigilante violence against Arabs and Muslims exploded across the city and around the country.

I don’t believe a word of it. There was a wave of Muslim violence at US Army bases and workplaces in the early-oughts that I remember. Once in a while, it still happens. Violence against innocent citizens across Europe by Muslim “refugees” is rampant.

6 posted on 10/24/2025 1:06:09 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Byline: Moustafa Boloumi of the The Guardian (in the UK).


7 posted on 10/24/2025 1:08:34 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

“Vigilante violence against Arabs and Muslims exploded across the city and around the country.”

Is that what they teach kids in the schools these days?

It’s at odds with the reality of what actually transpired.


8 posted on 10/24/2025 1:31:00 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: PGR88

Pure bull crap.


9 posted on 10/24/2025 1:32:06 PM PDT by WashingtonSource
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To: MinorityRepublican

PURE PROPAGANDA:

The practically unstoppable rise of the man with a smile as wide as the West Side Highway can certainly be explained by his oratorical gifts and political skills.


10 posted on 10/24/2025 1:33:03 PM PDT by WashingtonSource
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To: PGR88

As thin-skinned as the NY and National Media are, I cannot
believe that the “wide-spread violence against Muslims post-
9/11” ever occurred.


11 posted on 10/24/2025 1:58:32 PM PDT by T. Rustin Noone (Flarchitect)
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scapegoats?

The Guardian can GTH


12 posted on 10/24/2025 2:00:07 PM PDT by Gene Eric
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To: MinorityRepublican
From scapegoats mass murderers to city hall: how New York Muslims built power and shaped Zohran Mamdani
13 posted on 10/24/2025 2:16:39 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: MinorityRepublican

bookmark


14 posted on 10/24/2025 3:26:59 PM PDT by Wuli (uire)
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To: ridesthemiles

Also, say goodbye to the NYS exchange. One Mandani starts taxing stock trades, it will be over. I’m sure the elite have computers that are ready at the flip of a switch to take the stock exchange to Dallas or Miami.


15 posted on 10/24/2025 4:05:07 PM PDT by DownInFlames (P)
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To: DownInFlames

The new Texas Stock Exchange is now online

https://www.txse.com/

They are SEC approved and are actively lobbying companies to list on them instead of NY.


16 posted on 10/24/2025 4:10:15 PM PDT by sloanrb
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To: piasa

Ping.


17 posted on 10/24/2025 5:27:42 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: MinorityRepublican

It shouldn’t have been normal after the World Trade Center bombing on February 26, 1993.


18 posted on 10/24/2025 6:06:03 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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