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Following Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani’s decisive victory in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary on Tuesday, most New Yorkers are rejoicing over the sound walloping he dished out to former governor and accused sex pest Andrew Cuomo. Outside of the city, right-wing lawmakers and influencers have seized on Mamdani’s Muslim identity and responded to his win with a degree of Islamophobic hysteria not directed towards New York since the so-called “Ground-Zero Mosque” caused nuclear meltdowns on Fox News in 2010.
“New York City has fallen,” Donald Trump Jr., the eldest child of President Donald Trump, wrote on Wednesday, quoting a post from another user claiming they were “old enough to remember when New Yorkers endured 9/11 instead of voting for it.”
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) posted an AI-generated image depicting the Statue of Liberty wearing a black burka with the caption: “This hits hard.”
Greene’s fellow congressional stunt artist Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) posted a photo of Mamdani dressed in a kurta — a garment worn by men in Southeast Asia — while attending an Eid service at the Parkchester Islamic Center in the Bronx. “After 9/11 we said ‘Never Forget.’ I think we sadly have forgotten,” Mace wrote.
Is it February? Because there are an awful lot of snowflakes around.
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Remember, these are the people who claim to be against “cancel culture” out here trying to cancel someone for their religion.
I fucking hate this shit. It’s so painfully transparent.
It wouldn’t be the only thing they’re trying to cancel people for. You can’t even put Dijon mustard on a hotdog these days.
Sacre bleu!
Wow, it’d normally cost millions to get this kind of candidate endorsement and they’re giving it away for free.
I don’t think MAGA is aware of the Streisand Effect.
Zohran Mamdani seems a model for a kind of modernized Islam that I’d really like to see more of. I don’t know anything about him other than what’s available on Wikipedia and Social Media but I wish him well dealing with the problems of NYC and the churls on the other side of the aisle.
I don’t believe it’s all that new. In middle school, we took a field trip to a mosque, followed by lunch at an Iranian restaurant. The Imam was happy to explain the tenets of the faith, and the food was good.
I’d later have a Kuwaiti friend at community college who was one of the first people to treat me like an adult (I was still in high school). She’d take me to all sorts of Levant-related establishments to broaden my horizons, and I have to say, the Muslims I got exposed to were some of the kindest people, vis-a-vis what we see today from “Christians.”
Then I had a flight from DCA to Charlottesville in 2005. I got the ass seat in the back of the plane, but at least aisle. The woman already settled in by the window was reading The Economist, which was an opening … I’m not going to ignore such a thing.
As we were talking, she mentioned being Palestinian. I’d rather up to that point countenanced the propaganda that these were evil people. Evil people aren’t pleasant and reading The Economist … I’d of course been writing heds on BC-Israel-Palestinians for years by then, and holy fuck was even the AP horrifically biased on that conflict.
That was the interaction that turned me against the narrative. It was only a 40-minute flight, but in that time, the plight of Palestinians just wanting to live and thrive overrode all the Zionist propaganda I’d been fed to that point.
The whole Muslim scare is nothing more than othering. These are people, just as anyone is, wanting a secure life with opportunities for advancement.
Islam brought us al-Jabr’s mathematical ideas and the very fucking numbers we use. The Levant was where advances were being made during the European dark ages. And we got algebra out of it.
To judge Muslims as a whole by a few is akin to saying everyone in the U.S. supports Trump.
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