Posted on 10/29/2025 10:43:25 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Nepo babies of the world, unite! A man is not his father, but Zohran Mamdani's views on 9/11, terrorism, and Western culture may have been informed by the radical claims made in a book by his father, Mahmood Mamdani, a well-off, prominent left-wing academic.
Zohran Mamdani’s father Mahmood — a prominent leftist in his own right — penned a book in the wake of the terrorist attacks of 9/11 where he argued that there was a “moral equivalence” between the United States and al-Qaeda, compared the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan to the terrorist destruction of the World Trade Center, blamed the U.S. for 9/11 and al-Qaeda, and much more.
Mahmood Mamdani is a longtime tenured Columbia University professor, where the school says he "specializes in the study of colonialism, anti-colonialism, and decolonization." Raised in Uganda and of Indian descent, the likely future mayor’s father also previously taught at the University of Dar-es-Salaam in Tanzania, Makerere University in Uganda, and the University of Cape Town in South Africa. The leftwing academic wrote a 2004 book — Good Muslim, Bad Muslim — which may help explain his son's views on terrorism.
His son, currently the odds-on favorite to be the next mayor of New York City, is currently mired in controversy over his praise for pro-jihadist Brooklyn imam Siraj Wahhaj, his close association with controversial Palestinian-American activist Linda Sarsour, his past support for Muslim Americans convicted in a terrorist financing case over their support for Hamas, his open animus for the state of Israel, and more.
A review of the book by Just the News reveals that Mahmood holds views about 9/11 and America that may raise eyebrows, including claiming that there are many similarities between the U.S. and al-Qaeda, that American foreign policy is ultimately to blame...
(Excerpt) Read more at justthenews.com ...
New York City is about to get a refresher course on Menken. Good and hard, too.
This mutt’s just another manchurian candidate. When will we ever learn?
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