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Young Muslims Loved Zohran Mamdani, and Their Parents Listened to Them
New york times ^ | 26th June 2025

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.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: communistlunatic; creepymystique; curtissliwa; democracy; gettingitgoodandhard; kathyhochul; newyorkcity; newyorkistan; newyorkistantimes; zohranmamdani

1 posted on 06/26/2025 5:44:45 AM PDT by Cronos
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To: Cronos

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.


2 posted on 06/26/2025 6:02:56 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: Cronos

The future for New York, a once great city is grim.


3 posted on 06/26/2025 6:12:27 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
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To: The_Media_never_lie
The future for New York, a once great city is grim.

It certainly appears to be grim at this point.

4 posted on 06/26/2025 6:17:10 AM PDT by libertylover (The HBM (Has Been Media) is almost all AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: libertylover

The often arrogant NY people deserve whomever they choose. Pathetic but LOL.


5 posted on 06/26/2025 6:42:50 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Cronos

“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.


6 posted on 06/26/2025 6:47:41 AM PDT by antidemoncrat (In a way ge is right as)
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To: Cronos
Young Muslims Loved Zohran Mamdani and DOMINON over his electoral opponent .
7 posted on 06/26/2025 7:32:32 AM PDT by cuz1961
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To: Cronos
Mamdani is a Shiite and most Muslims in the USA are some flavor or other of Sunni.

Right now that does not matter, but it could become very important very quickly
when it comes time to impose Shariah.

8 posted on 06/26/2025 8:47:45 AM PDT by Salman (The main deception of media is not political bias. It's the pretense they know what is going on.)
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