You Didn’t Really Think Mamdani Would Condemn Islamic Terrorism, Did You?

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Zohran Mamdani, the earnest young mayor of New York wants you to know that he is against “white supremacy.” He is also against “anti-Muslim bigotry.” Islamic terrorism, however? He doesn’t have anything to say about that, even after Islamic jihad terrorists struck New York City yet again.

And there is no doubt, despite deliberate and sinister misdirection from the establishment media, that the two young men who threw a homemade bomb in New York City on Saturday were Islamic jihad terrorists. The Associated Press reported Monday that “two men who brought explosives to a far-right protest outside New York City’s mayoral mansion said they were inspired by the Islamic State extremist group, according to a court complaint.”

When they appeared in court, “Kayumi smirked and looked over at Balat as the judge read part of the complaint alleging they acted in support of the Islamic State group. Balat stared ahead at the defense table. According to the complaint, Kayumi blurted out, as he was being arrested Saturday, that ‘ISIS’ was the reason for his conduct. Balat later told authorities that he had pledged allegiance to the extremists, and Kayumi asserted that he was affiliated with the group, the complaint said. Officers asked Balat whether he was aiming to accomplish something akin to the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing that killed three people and wounded hundreds more. ‘No, even bigger,’ Balat replied, according to the complaint.”

Knowing all that, or at very least being in a position to know it and having the responsibility to know it, Mamdani delivered a major speech on the bombing on Monday, and never mentioned any of that. Instead, he stated: “On Saturday, a protest was held outside Gracie Mansion, where I live with my wife Rama. Neither of us were home at the time. This was a vile protest rooted in white supremacy, entitled Stop the Islamic Takeover of New York City.” To lead off with this is to try to give the impression that the protesters who opposed the “Islamic Takeover of New York City” were behind the bombing. They were, actually, its targets.

Mamdani continued: “I’m the first Muslim mayor of our city. Anti-Muslim bigotry is nothing new to me, nor is it anything new for the 1 million or so Muslim New Yorkers who know this city as our home.” The attackers were not “anti-Muslim bigots,” they were Islamic jihad terrorists, but you’d never know that from Mamdani’s speech.

Then Mamdani tried to sound like an American: “While I found this protest appalling, I will not waver in my belief that it should be allowed to happen. Ours is a free society where the right to peaceful protest is sacred. It does not belong only to those we agree with. It belongs to everyone. I will defend that right every day that I am mayor, even when those protesting say things that I abhor.”

Yet in Mamdani’s city, most protesters are not demonstrating in favor of anything that Zohran Mamdani abhors; instead, most of them oppose Israel, which Mamdani abhors also. When he says “the right to peaceful protest is sacred,” it should be borne in mind that protesters have menaced Jews outside synagogues and chanting calls for the killing of Jews worldwide. Is that the kind of “peaceful protest” that Mamdani has in mind?

Finally, Mamdani got around to addressing the actual perpetrators of the bombing: “Let me also be clear about something else: New York City will never tolerate violence, whether from protests or counter-protests. Many of the counter-protesters met this display of bigotry peacefully, with a vision of a city that is welcoming to all. But a few did not. Two men, Emir Balat and Ibrahim Kayumi, traveled from Pennsylvania and attempted to bring violence to New York City. They are suspected of coming here to commit an act of terrorism.”

Note the contrast. The demonstration outside Gracie Mansion was, Mamdani said, a “vile protest rooted in white supremacy, entitled Stop the Islamic Takeover of New York City.” But Mamdani was not nearly so specific about the motivations of Emir Balat and Ibrahim Kayumi. All he says about them was that they are “suspected,” a word which he uses even though he admits that video exists of the incident, of coming to New York in order to “commit an act of terrorism.”

Mamdani has nothing to say about what kind of terrorism was involved. Is Zohran Kwame Mamdani, as mayor of New York, determined to take action to stop Islamic jihad terrorism? The jury is still out.