New Yorkers Are United Against Islamaphobia
"Zohran Mamdani will be the next Mayor of New York City" - JBB
https://youtu.be/f5yYUX5LuSc?si=rr3BsAfXf_HrT4V8
Watch This! Islamaphobia will not sell in NYC!
Coumo's attempt to backfired badly on Coumo.
Are you sure? They are not known for being a loving and tolerant society
Winston Churchill Gets the Last Word on Islam – PJ Media
I'm expected to waste 16 minutes of my life because of a made up controversy in La La Land?
God Almighty, the entire election of a New York mayor is all about religion. If Mamdani's Muslim religion is the single most important deciding factor in the New York election then why not admit that government will be a theocracy?
New York is demanding religion in government. So, give the people what they want and be done with it. Hallelujah, Praise God Almighty! The glory of the Lord fills the Tabernacle. The flames of the Holy Spirit will uplift the people. All will see that the Lord is good. Amen, vote for Mamdani.
True-- for some New Yorkers. But not all. New York City is incredibly diverse. While some may consider religion to be the main issue-- there are people who don't care about and are focused on other issues.
Like economic issues . . . or other things
Ah, the old tried and true argument that exceptions make the rule. Religion is sufficient important in the New York mayors race to allow Mamdani to play victim.
If a Christian had made the same declaration of faith as Mamdani did then people would foaming at the mouth and screeching about 1st amendment separation of church and state. That vocal opposition would also make religion a centerpiece of the election, wouldn't it?
Jbb,
This is not about Islamaphobia. It is about antisemitism.
On Oct 8, 1 day after 1,219 Israelis were murdered, Mamdani condemned Israel and its government but made no mention of Hamas, which had attacked Israel the day before. Who does that?
He defended the use of the term "globalize the intifada." This term is a call for an uprising against Israel to be extended beyond the Palestinian territories to a global movement. Well, if it is beyond Israel, who is he talking about.... Obviously Jews.
He has refused to recognize Israel.
He declined to sign a state assembly resolution condemning the Holocaust.
Now, I get you can be against what Israel did during this period, and I can accept that, but that is not what is going on with this man. I'm sorry, I am not for attacking him about his faith, but when he has been blatantly hateful, that should be called out.
You are correct.
From copilot
Thank you, John.
How does he explain his Oct 8 2023 statement today ?
If he gets elected, I see a heck of a lot of buyer's remorse coming down. At least from the ones who choose not to move out of NYC or the state for that matter. He simply just cannot deliver on what he is promising his voter base.
Israel carried on the war way past the point of reasonableness, and they have suffered in world public opinion for it.
Its a sad situation.
It has been clear for many many months that they were not going to be able to eradicate Hamas, yet they kept killing civilians. Netanyahu didnt want the war to end and probably still doesnt. News reports say Trump put pressure on him. If Trump had put pressure on him three or four months ago a lot of people would still be alive.
To be honest I havent paid much attention to the NYC election and dont really care who wins.
I think it's easy to be judgmental from the armchair.
Hamas could have released their hostages at any point during the conflict.
If the Mexicans invaded California, killed 55000 people and taken another 11000 hostage (proportional to population) back to Tijuana, there is no chance we would have shown the restraint Israel did.
There is no reasonableness or proportionally in war, innocents will be killed and injured, especially if the instigator uses them as human shields and steals their food and medical supp;ies
So, you didn't watch the video, huh? This is not about Israel. It is about blaming victims as you do all innocent Muslims. It is about fearing and blaming Muslims for shit like the Holocaust enacted on Jews by Germany, while giving Israel a pass on Gaza today.
It is no more reasonable for Jewish New Yorkers to fear having a Muslim Mayor than it would be for Muslim New Yorker to fear Jewish candidates for office in New York City. There are about a million Muslims in NYC. They are not our enemy. They are just as much welcome here as Jews, Hindus, Buddhists and Atheists!
Watch the video and discuss the topic. If you just assume Zohran Mamdani is antisemitic because he is Muslim and oppose him for his association with Muslims then you completely miss the point. Mamdani has explicitly explained his views multiple times. He is not antisemitic. He wants to be a mayor for all New Yorkers. I've watched the race beginning to end. The best man is winning.
In desperation Coumo resorted to Islamaphobia, which backfired. The hysterical Islamaphobic fears of Staten Islanders is fodder for SNL skits because it is a real thing we see in Coumo's adds. All Coumo has left is to appeal to the dumbest and most backwards voters in the dumbest most backwards borough, Trump voters!
I fail to see how anyone in their right minds can conceivably consider anything Hamas has done as being reasonable, and yet try to shift all blame onto Israel.
Its always a good sign when someone on social media is going to be honest!
Israel carried on the war way past the point of reasonableness, and they have suffered in world public opinion for it.
That was Hamas' goal.
About every 2 years or so, Hamas started firing rockets, aimed at civilian targets, into Israel. Israel retaliated. Some country (usually Egypt) tried to arrange a cease fire. The fighting usually didn't last long-- nothing like the recent ongoing war.
But things were different this time. Hamas was uncharacteristly barbaric! They mass raped Israeli women. This was a lot of the most horrendous types of torture on israelis, whether civilians or military. .And rather than trying to cover it up, they recorded it (Go Pros and/or similar devices on their helmets!)
These types of actions were not typical of Hamas. Myself as well as a few other people were thinking the whole thing wasn't planned by Hamas...but probably Iran!
Which was denied. But later turned out to be true.
So why did iran do this-- and do it to such barbaric extreme? Well, it deliberately wanted to hurt israel so much so that their response would be yuge.
And it worked!
But why Iran? And why at this time?
Because Iran wanted to sabotage the Abraham Accords, They were afraid those Accords would lessen the tension between Israel and the Arabs. And that once the tensions between Israel and the Arabs decreased, the Arabs would focus more on confronting Iran.
Many westerners are not aware of it, but many Arabs are mutual enemies with Iran. (Its mainly the Sunni/Shia split).
Casualties in the Iran-Iraq war were estimated to be between one and two million. )
Mamdani released an artist rendition of his vision for Jewish affordable housing.
You and others here have made my point. Never mind all of Coumo's failures and at least sixteen credible accusations of rank sexual misconduct. After all, It doesn't matter against a Muslim. Just for the record, using the Holocaust to slander Mamdani is Islamaphobia...
No it’s not, it’s calling out a antisemite racist for what he is regardless of his religion or ethnicity, he is an antisemite and racist.
That's a joke right? Islamaphobia?
WTF is there to be afraid of? Not a damn thing to anybody whose fought against that inbred ideology he's following.
While Mamdani does support some of that the left has been pushing (i.e. defund police, abolish ICE, antisemites, racists, etc.) how do you all justify his stance on the LBGT community? It does appear that he would like to follow the lowest forms of life like Che Guevara, Siraj Wahhaj and Rebecca Kadaga and target them.
In same cases, yes.
But I know other people who are voting against him for other reasons.
(To cite one example, some Wall St people who could care less about his religion, but are really worried about what his economic policies would to do the economy).
Oh, and freezing rents on rent stabilized apts? Many landlords are not going to be happy with that at all (regardless of the race or religion of the person proposing that)
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