Tuesday, December 30, 2025

For Muslim NYC, Mamdani Win Bridges Long-standing Divisions

As Zohran Mamdani prepares to be inaugurated as the city's next mayor, Muslim New Yorkers say his victory represents more than a historic first.

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As Zohran Mamdani prepares to be inaugurated as the city's next mayor, Muslim New Yorkers say his victory represents more than a historic first.

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-- NBC News (@nbcnews.com) Dec 29, 2025 at 7:41 AM

Mamdani has AOC-level powers to make bigoted middle aged white dudes lose their damned minds.

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-- Radley Balko (@radleybalko.bsky.social) Dec 29, 2025 at 6:41 PM

Mamdani has AOC-level powers to make bigoted middle aged white dudes lose their damned minds.

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-- Radley Balko (@radleybalko.bsky.social) Dec 29, 2025 at 6:41 PM

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... Zohran Mamdani's election as New York City's next mayor has become something larger than a historic first for many Muslim New Yorkers " it marks a rare moment of visibility and unity across the city's Muslim community, and a particularly meaningful one for Shia Muslims, who have often felt sidelined, even within their own faith, they told NBC News.

That sense of possibility crystallized for Fizza Jaffari the night Mamdani won.

She recalled watching the election returns from a cafe in Astoria, a diverse Queens neighborhood with a large Muslim population, when cheers erupted and car horns blared as Mamdani made history, not just as the city's first Muslim mayor, but as the first Shia Muslim to hold the office.

"It was a once-in-a-lifetime type of moment," Jaffri, 33, told NBC News. "I haven't really experienced that, especially because we're not always in these high-power offices."

As Mamdani prepares to take office on Jan. 1, Shia Muslim New Yorkers say his election is already reshaping conversations about faith, identity and belonging. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-29 07:00 PM

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... For Mamdani, the moment is rooted in lessons passed down by his paternal grandparents on justice, dignity and standing against oppression through his Shia identity.

"They didn't just teach me what it meant to be Shia. They didn't just teach me what it meant to be a Muslim," Mamdani told NBC News in an interview at his office.

"They also used those lessons to teach me what it meant to be a good person." ...




#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-29 08:18 PM

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#3 | Posted by MSgt at 2025-12-30 09:14 PM

"They also used those lessons to teach me what it meant to be a good person."

Thoughts like this is what makes Mamdani an Outsider.

It's contrary to the fascist belief system that Outsiders are good people.

#4 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-30 09:41 PM

The Democratic Party needs to listen and learn, and understand that it must return to being a "big tent" party, honor those who have like views on Constitutional freedoms and demands. That means losing some votes of those who see America as a haven for white nationalists, christian supremacists...and gaining a lot of votes of people who will take the trouble to turn out at election time to support politicians who care about them and their needs and kids.
I am an atheist, but would cheerfully vote for the Christian politician/preacher James Talarico...personal faith helps a person unite with others, and who cares just what rituals that faith includes? We have been divided for far too long by those fundamentalists who love the power and wealth that making everyone bend a knee to them brings to them.

#5 | Posted by Hughmass at 2025-12-31 06:56 AM

imo, from what I have gleaned from the local NYC news I watch ...

Mayor-elect Mamdani has an uphill battle ahead of him.

Much of what he wants to do in NYC is actually controlled by Albany.

For example, free bus rides within NYC? MTA (which runs the buses in NYC) fares are controlled by the State in Albany, not the NYC Mayor.

It will be interesting to watch Mayor-elect Mamdani's actions, as he works toward living up to his promises.

At least he didn't promise to eliminate bus fares on day one.

So at least he, and his supporters, seem to have a modicum of common sense.




#6 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-31 06:30 PM

Zohran Mamdani will be first mayor to be sworn in on Quran during New York City inauguration
www.foxnews.com

... New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's campaign confirmed on Wednesday he will make a historical move on New Year's Day, using the Quran during his swearing-in ceremony.

Mamdani, a 34-year-old Ugandan-born socialist, will be the first Muslim mayor of New York City and the first mayor to be sworn in using the Quran, the central religious text of Islam.

New York Attorney General Letitia James will host a private midnight ceremony at Old City Hall Station, a historical decommissioned subway station, before he is sworn in during a public inauguration on the steps of City Hall by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Thursday afternoon.

He will use two family Qurans, as well as one that belonged to writer and Puerto Rican activist Arturo Schomburg, who built the foundation for Harlem's Schomburg Center for research in Black culture. ...



#7 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-31 09:27 PM


Thoughts like this is what makes Mamdani an Outsider.
It's contrary to the fascist belief system that Outsiders are good people.
#4 | POSTED BY SNOOFY

Less than 25 years after thousands of New Yorkers were killed on 9/11, the Chief Counsel of New York is going to be an Islamist lawyer who came to this country after 9/11 specifically to defend the very Al Qaeda terrorists we were fighting against.

Winning!

As I famously like to say, tolerance is the lube that helps slip the ----- of dysfunction into the ass of a civilized society.

#8 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-12-31 10:19 PM

@#8 ... Less than 25 years after thousands of New Yorkers were killed on 9/11, the Chief Counsel of New York is going to be an Islamist lawyer who came to this country after 9/11 specifically to defend the very Al Qaeda terrorists we were fighting against. ...

If that is the case, then why was he elected by the NYC voters?

That's the explanation your troll farm needs to provide.

Not some random deflection attempt.

Stated differently, the troll farm really needs to try harder.

It's current efforts are so lame that it abases itself.


:)



#9 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-31 10:35 PM

@#8 ... As I famously like to say, tolerance is the lube that helps slip the ----- of dysfunction into the ass of a civilized society. ...

Ah, so now I understand your troll farm's support of Pres Trump.

Thanks, for that follow-up.

#10 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-31 10:37 PM

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