"Across the country, Donald Trump's crackdown on immigrants has shaken neighbourhoods, torn apart families and engendered a sense of panic among communities. But in New York, on Tuesday night, Zohran Mamdani, the first Muslim mayor of New York, and an immigrant from Uganda, chose to underline his identity. New York will remain a city of immigrants: a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants and, as of tonight, led by an immigrant, he told an ecstatic crowd at Paramount theater in Brooklyn."
"Earlier this week, the Center for Study of Organized Hate published a report highlighting the surge in Islamophobic comments online between July and October, most of which labelled Mamdani as an extremist or terrorist. Two days before the election, a Super Pac supporting Andrew Cuomo had run an ad depicting Mamdani in front of the Twin Towers crashing down on 9/11. Earlier, it had artificially thickened and enlarged Mamdani's beard to make him appear more menacing on a flyer circulated around the city."
Donald Trump's crackdown on immigrants has unsettled neighbourhoods, torn families apart and created widespread panic. Zohran Mamdani, born in Kampala to a Muslim father and Hindu mother and raised in Queens, became the first Muslim mayor of New York and identifies as a democratic socialist. He openly embraced his immigrant and Muslim identities, declaring he will no longer be in the shadows and refusing to apologize. Mamdani endured a surge in Islamophobic online comments, smear ads including one showing the Twin Towers and manipulated flyers exaggerating his beard. His public defiance reframed identity as central to his leadership.
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