They have seized on the fact that the New York mayoral Democratic primary winner Zohran Mamdani is a Muslim to release their ugliest anti-Muslim sentiments.
In a series of posts, conservative social media personality Laura Loomer wrote “New York City will be destroyed,” Muslims will start “committing jihad all over New York” and that “NYC is about to see 9/11 2.0.”
If elected in November, Mamdani would become the first Muslim mayor in New York City’s history. And while many conservatives have criticized Mamdani’s progressive policies, others have taken aim at Mamdani for his religion.
“24 years ago a group of Muslims killed 2,753 people on 9/11,” conservative activist Charlie Kirk posted on X, referencing the number of people killed in New York. “Now a Muslim Socialist is on pace to run New York City.”
“New York City has fallen,” Donald Trump Jr. wrote, quoting a post by Michael Malice about when New Yorkers “endured 9/11 instead of voting for it.”
“After 9/11 we said ‘Never Forget.’ I think we sadly have forgotten,” Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) posted on X Wednesday, accompanied by a photo of Mamdani.
For these people, every single Muslim is a terrorist or terrorist sympathizer. Disgusting.
Assumes facts not in evidence.
This is not surprising in any way. The only worthwhile question is whether or not major news outlets (CNN, NBC, etc.) will call out these comments and their authors for what they are: xenophobic slurs uttered by bigots. Instead, we get Politico still pushing the “question” of whether or not Mamdani is anti-semitic because he doesn’t roll over for Bibi.
I do not expect to see anything on the nightly news that says Don Jr. is an opportunistic bigot.
“For these people, every single Muslim is a terrorist or terrorist sympathizer.”
In 2016, the Japanese supreme court ruled this was indeed the case, and that the Jaanese police therefore had a right to persecute Muslims in th;e name of keeping everyone else safe.
Jimf @ 2. Don Jr. is a bigot. Being opportunistic requires a minimum amount of intelligence.
Also, The Orange One never misses an opportunity to suck up to the Saudis, or other Gulf kingdoms. Rich muslims are OK as long as they use bitcoin to launder their bribes.
I have heard some Indians phrase this as “not every muslim is a terrorist but every terrorist is a muslim”. This from a country , who had the father of the nation murdered by a fundamentalist Hindu , a prime minister murdered by a sikh(which also caused a whole bunch of people, mostly Hindu to commit atrocities on sikhs!) and another one blown by a Hindu Tamilian -and the response will be but what about Pakistan !
this would have lost elections for the nazis back in 2005, but 20 years later? this shit might help them win. new york has a proud history of being clannish paranoiacs in ethnic enclaves every other block.
The Tories tried this tactic against Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, twice. It didn’t work -- he was elected, and re-elected, although admittedly London is now an empty expanse of rubble and toxic waste where human life is impossible. /s
Deepak Shetty @5 Also Air India Flight 182 that was blown up by Sikh separatists. A lot of Canadians were killed that day, but most anti-Sikh racism here probably stems from idiots who confuse them for Muslims.
Anyway, on the topic of the post, MAGA being racists isn’t surprising. It’s the non-affiliated “centrists” and centrist to right-leaning Democrats who have been shockingly disgusting. Kirsten Giilibrand’s political should be dead in the water in any sane democracy.