Zohran Mamdani, New York City’s Ugandan-born Muslim mayor, faced swift and serious blowback after opening up one of the city’s larger parks for a gathering of Islamic prayer. Despite the woke left’s insistence that government and faith should not intermix when it comes to Christian values, they have a different expectation as Mamdani has repeatedly leaned on his Muslim faith and received praise for it.
For context, a singular video went viral after a March 20th prayer in New York’s Prospect Park featured countless Muslims chanting and praying in unison. Brooklyn’s 500-acre urban park was the site of government officials commemorating the end of Islam’s holy month of Ramadan with Eid al-Fitr prayers. Reports suggests thousands of Muslims, including the Muslim mayor, were in attendance.
“Many New Yorkers are concerned their city is being lost to ISLAM after Ugandan Mayor Mamdani surges Muslim public prayer to the city’s Prospect Park,” wrote Eric Daugherty on X. “Islam is not compatible with the West, and Zohran Mamdani should be deported. NO TO ISLAM!”
Watch the prayer gathering below:
The socialist, immigrant Muslim mayor of New York City has often leaned on his secular and religious faith. In the case of the latter, he also addressed the media in 2026 about what Americans can supposedly learn from Buddhism and Islam, with nary a contribution from the nation’s founding religion of Christianity and arguably the faith and worldview that shaped the country he and so many others now take for granted.
“Think of the freedom from suffering that Buddhism teaches us is only possible if we remove the three poisons of desire, hatred and ignorance from our daily lives. We need not accept suffering as unchangeable. We need not treat hatred as the natural state,” Mamdani said in his speech.
“We have the power to set ourselves free, and I consider my own faith Islam, a religion built upon a narrative of migration. The story of the Hijra reminds us that Prophet Muhammad SAW them was a stranger too, who fled Mecca and was welcomed in Medina Surah Nahal 1642, tells us, as for those who immigrated in the Cause of Allah after being persecuted, we will surely bless them with a good home in this world.”
“Or as the Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu wasallam said, Islam began as something strange, and will go back to being strange. So glad tidings to the strangers. If faith offers us the moral compass to stand alongside the stranger, government can provide the resources. Let us create a new expectation of city hall where power is wielded to love, to embrace and to protect, we will stand with the stranger today,” he finished.
Watch that moment below:
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