New York City’s Muslim Socialist gubernatorial candidate Zohran Mamdani received swift and ferocious backlash for recent remarks in his second debate with former governor Andrew Cuomo as the two vie to become the next mayor. Mamdani focused on his own religion and that of a growing number of constituents in New York City to portray Cuomo as some ignorant and indifferent politician to Muslims’ needs.
For context, Zohran Mamdani was born and raised in Uganda, immigrating to the United States at the age of 7 in late 1990s. He was naturalized as a citizen decades later as an adult in 2018. Upon being conferred the greatest gift in the history of humanity, he ran as a woke Democrat in 2021 for the New York State Assembly and is now the leading candidate to replace Eric Adams as the mayor of the state’s largest city.
Mamdani’s campaign is littered with woke and communist ideology. He has consistently placed identity politics at the center of his campaign and openly celebrated taxing affluent white communities at higher rates simply to redistribute their wealth to minority populations. He has also made his immigrant past and Muslim faith a central part of his campaign.
It was this focus that led to a wild rant during a televised debate between Mamdani and Cuomo. Mamdani made the claim that Cuomo was unfit to serve as mayor because he couldn’t remember the names of any mosques he had visited or “set foot in” while serving New York as its governor.
“He had more than 10 years and he couldn’t name a single mosque at the last debate we had that he visited. And what Muslims want in this city is what every community wants and deserves. They want equality and they want respect. And it took me to get you to even see those Muslims as part of this city, and that, frankly, is something that is shameful, and is why so many New Yorkers have lost faith in this politics.”
Cuomo shot back, defending himself instead of rejecting the premise outright. “I was here before you were even in state government. I worked with Muslim community Imams. Presided over state of the states. We worked in religious working groups,” he said in part. But the optics of the exchange were cemented and Mamdani was able to frame him as an uncaring white man.
Take a look at the moment below:
Of course, the entire premise is a joke. The mayor of New York City’s main job should be to take care of residents and provide working infrastructure. In the eyes of an immigrant Muslim communist obsessed with identity politics, though, none of that matters. Raising taxes and redistributing more wealth, both to friends and voting blocs, is all that matters, regardless of what happens in the form of adverse consequences.
And the internet was not thrilled with a naturalized immigrant of Muslim faith deciding how American cities and this country should operate, particularly when he had to come here to be rescued from the failing nation of Uganda.
“This dude just became a citizen in 2018… from a 3rd world nation and now he thinks he can rewrite 200 years of a Christian nation’s foundation? Let me make this clear… we serve Jesus Christ … the King of Kings and Lord of Lords,” the account A Gene Robinson wrote on X.
“We have no interest in visiting mosques, temples, or any place that denies His divinity. This is not arrogance ..it’s obedience. America was built upon the Word of God, not upon a crescent moon, not upon foreign ideologies that reject the Cross.”
“So don’t tell us we need to ‘visit a mosque’ to prove our love or tolerance. We don’t bow to false gods. We don’t compromise truth. We serve Christ .. and that’s what built this nation. That’s that. Period,” he concluded.