""These are lessons that so many Muslim New Yorkers have been taught," Mamdani said. "And over these last few days, these lessons have become the closing messages of Andrew Cuomo, Curtis Sliwa and Eric Adams.""
""be cheering""
""That's another problem," Cuomo replied."
Zohran Mamdani pledged to further embrace his Muslim identity in response to intensified attacks by former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his surrogates, calling the criticisms racist and baseless. Mamdani spoke surrounded by faith leaders outside a Bronx mosque and described indignities faced by Muslim New Yorkers, including his aunt avoiding the subway after Sept. 11 because of a head covering. He recalled family advice to keep his faith private when entering politics. Cuomo accused Mamdani of playing the victim and denied widespread Islamophobia. A Cuomo campaign social post caricaturing Mamdani was removed and called an error, while some Democrats accused the attacks of leaning into Islamophobia.
Read at Fortune
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]