A group of Muslim Congress members, including Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, condemned racist and Islamophobic remarks targeting Zohran Mamdani. Following Mamdani's contentious win in the New York mayoral primary, his critics have focused on bigoted comments relating to his Muslim faith rather than substantive policy disagreements. This normalizes hate speech and contributes to violence against Muslim Americans, the representatives argue, calling for their colleagues to speak out against such rhetoric and reject anti-Muslim sentiments in politics.
The vile, anti-Muslim, and racist smears from our colleagues on both sides of the aisle attacking Zohran Mamdani cannot be met with silence.
These hateful, Islamophobic, and racist tropes have become so entrenched and normalized in our politics.
At a time of increased violence against elected officials, we cannot allow the attacks on Zohran Mamdani to continue.
We unequivocally reject the normalization of anti-Muslim hate and fearmongering and call on elected leaders across our country to speak out.
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