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We can all spare a moment of sympathy for Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Despite the perks of leading one of America’s most iconic cities, residing in a taxpayer-funded mansion, and enjoying widespread media adoration, Mamdani grapples with feelings of “loneliness” and “isolation” due to pervasive Islamophobia.
Last week, he candidly shared the emotional toll this prejudice takes on him, coinciding with a Hezbollah-linked terrorist’s attempt to bomb a synagogue in Michigan and a separate Islamist attack at Old Dominion University. “It’s challenging,” he admitted.
The source of his distress was a tweet from Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), who shared an image of Mamdani at a City Hall iftar alongside a photo of the 9/11 attacks, ominously captioned, “the enemy is inside the gates.”
Meanwhile, Rep. Brandon Gill (R-Texas) expressed his distaste by describing the City Hall iftar photo as “stomach churning.”
City Councilwoman Vickie Paladino has also voiced similarly harsh sentiments.
Also, some ISIS-inspired terrorists days earlier had thrown bombs near Gracie Mansion, giving the “Islamophobes” yet another pretext to pounce and so feeding the mayor’s aggrieved sense of a world of hatred arrayed against him.
Except that none of Tuberville, Gill or Paladino indicated that having a Muslim as mayor is the problem; the problem is having this mayor.
The “enemy is inside the gates” because Mamdani is a radical socialist whose policies will destroy the city, for starters.
And an apologist for Islamist violence who consistently and offensively uses 9/11 and the Holocaust as metaphors for the trauma that Muslims go through.
And a politician who plays footsy with advocates for violent terror and other hardcore antisemites.
Mamdani invited Mahmoud Khalil, an organizer of the Columbia University protests who lied on his visa application to enter the United States, to dine at Gracie Mansion with their wives, and published an intimate photo of the two couples at table.
Khalil has stated that he will not condemn Hamas as a matter of principle: “It’s very racist to ask a Palestinian this question,” he whined at an event Sunday.
Racist how?
More, he complained: “Claims of antisemitism are being weaponized to silence” brave critics of Israel such as himself.
No wonder Mamdani is so tight with Khalil: They share so much suffering.
Reality check, Mr. Mayor: Nobody has a problem with the million Muslims in New York City who go about their business, meaning and doing no harm.
But no other religion has the same extremism problem, a twisted philosophy used to justify terrorism, including terror attacks against innocents who have nothing to do with grievances about some faraway land.
Mean words, even actual outright bigoted ones, are still just words: Speech is not violence, and violence is not speech.
Please, Mr. Mayor: Stop acting like 9/11 was something bad that happened to Muslims, and quit being cozy with terrorist sympathizers.
It’ll do wonders for your mood.