Posted on 06/26/2025 5:44:45 AM PDT by Cronos
"MOM, WHY ARE YOU STILL AT WORK?” Ms. Akhtar’s 24-year-old son, Humza Mehfuz, wrote to her. “YOU HAVE TO VOTE!”
While Ms. Akhtar had previously supported Mr. Mamdani’s main opponent, Andrew M. Cuomo, when he ran for governor and, years before that, had voted for his father, former Gov. Mario Cuomo, she told her children to calm down. After their relentless campaign of showing her TikTok videos of Mr. Mamdani — “This kid is brilliant,” she had to admit, “and so friendly!” — she had made her decision.
“All of Cuomo’s ads tried to make Mamdani look like a terrorist,” said Ms. Akhtar, 56. “But he’s a New Yorker like me.”
...The city is home to about one million Muslims, and Mr. Mamdani strove to reach even unlikely and infrequent voters among them with a social media strategy featuring videos in which he spoke directly to the camera, said Zara Rahim, a spokeswoman for the campaign.
"These Bangladeshi uncles and West African aunties who had never voted in a primary for a mayor,” Ms. Rahim said, “they see somebody showing up at their mosques and treating their neighborhoods like they mattered.”
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Young, good-looking, gift of gab. Sound familiar? That’s their game.
And to think that Adams is all there is to stop him. Hannnity suggested Sliwa has a chance. Sliwa would never support Adams to keep this moozlem out so prepare for the worst.
The future for New York, a once great city is grim.
It certainly appears to be grim at this point.
The often arrogant NY people deserve whomever they choose. Pathetic but LOL.
“Young Muslims Loved Zohran Mamdani, and Their Parents Listened to Them”
He’s a Muslim that his religion demands him to help destroy the US jn order the establish their worldwide Caliphate under Sharia Law.
Right now that does not matter, but it could become very important very quickly
when it comes time to impose Shariah.
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