Posted on 11/01/2025 4:04:49 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Imams and community leaders turn grievance into political and PR strategy
When New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani stepped to the microphone outside the Islamic Cultural Center of the Bronx last week near Yankee Stadium, his voice broke as he spoke about "the memory of my aunt who stopped taking the subway after Sept. 11 because she did not feel safe."
Behind him, a Yemeni-American educator in sunglasses named Debbie Almontaser nodded.
Almost two decades ago, in 2007, she was forced to resign as principal of a city school after defending a T-shirt with the slogan "Intifada NYC."
City officials viewed it as a call to violence. She said it was benign. Her case became a rallying cry for Muslim American activists who cast her as a victim of "Islamophobia."
Now, Almontaser was back, this time as a senior advisor to Emgage Action and a board member of Yemeni American Merchants Association Action, two of 110 political nonprofits, community groups and political action committees backing Mamdani as he alleges "Islamophobia" against him. Recently, when critics questioned Mamdani’s ties to hardline Brooklyn Imam Siraj Wahhaj, she sprang to action, helping to organize a protest to defend Wahhaj.
That rapid, coordinated response captured the modus operandi of a network of political operatives and clerics intertwined with the shared mission of catapulting Mamdani into the mayor’s office.
Mamdani’s background diverges from many of his co-religionists. In an interview, he said he is a Khoja Shia Muslim, part of a small, relatively liberal sect with roots in India. Many of his New York-area allies are religiously strict Sunni Muslims who practice more...
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Betcha Fox News writer Asra Q. Nomani is a Jihadi too.
The Anti-Israel ‘female’ trans-Rabbis have his back
“”Transgender rabbi for Zohran” included in ad for NYC candidate”
https://notthebee.com/article/transgender-rabbis-for-zohran/
never let them grow above 2%—ever!!
This jerk’s deity has nothing to do with God.
Creepy rising dictators often have religious fans....
Religious leaders meet with Hitler....Note the smiles.
Permission to barf requested.
Mamdani is ready to convert NY City as the largest caliphate in the Republic of the US.
They showed the clip on newsmax, and it was as disgusting as one might imagine. Those “rabbis” are gonna be in for a rude zwzkening shen they meet the God that they have mocked face to face
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