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  • From scapegoats to city hall: how New York Muslims built power and shaped Zohran Mamdani

    10/24/2025 12:26:34 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 17 replies
    The Guardian ^ | Fri 24 Oct 2025 | Moustafa Bayoumi
    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...
  • New York Magazine: 'How Did Trump Get a Peace Deal Done Where Biden Could Not?'

    10/15/2025 3:02:42 PM PDT · by PJ-Comix · 45 replies
    Newsbusters ^ | October 15, 2025 | P.J. Gladnick
    New York magazine wondered aloud about the success of President Donald Trump in achieving a peace deal in the Middle East while the Biden administration was an utter failure in that regard. That puzzlement was reflected in the title of Ross Barkan's Tuesday Intelligencer section column, "How Did Trump Get a Peace Deal Done Where Biden Could Not?"Barkin struggles with the idea of Trump's success by denigrating him as merely a transactional deal maker in the real estate mode as well as being primarily motivated by a desire to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Yes, such mockery is to be...