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Sunday, June 29, 2025

Zohran Mamdani's victory in New York City's Democratic mayoral primary triggered a wave of Islamophobic attacks -- including from sitting members of Congress -- that once might have disqualified the perpetrators from public office.

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... Why it matters: Openly racist rhetoric has become normalized at the highest levels of American politics.

Islamophobic and antisemitic incidents both reached an all-time high in 2024, according to the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Anti-Defamation League, respectively.

- - - The mainstreaming of Islamophobic rhetoric in political discourse comes a decade after President Trump called for "a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States" as part of his 2016 campaign.

Driving the news: Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) urged the Justice Department to denaturalize and deport Mamdani, who was born in Uganda and became a U.S. citizen in 2018.

- - - Under federal law, denaturalization is an extreme measure typically reserved for cases involving fraud during the naturalization process.

The other side: Mamdani, who would be the first Muslim mayor of New York, has spoken openly about the violent threats and hateful messages he's received throughout the campaign.

- - - He told MSNBC that he sees his victory as "an opportunity for me to introduce the fact that being Muslim is like being a member of any other faith." ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-06-29 07:41 PM | Reply

The nomination of NY Rep

@#126 ... In America we live under the Constitution, not the Bible. You incorporate Biblical values into your own life out of choice. ...

So why does the GOP appear to want to impose those values upon all?


Should the Ten Commandments be display in Texas classrooms?

If so, why?



Apparently the choice your comment states does not hold in Texas.


Yeah, but then I saw this ... NY Rep Mamdani to the NYC mayor elections seems to have caused some concern.

But why?

Looking at this, he won the Brooklyn borough of NYC, hands down.

OK, take a look at this ...

History of the Jews in New York City
en.wikipedia.org

... Jews comprise approximately 12% of New York City's population, making the Jewish community the largest in the world outside of Israel. As of 2020, over 960,000 Jews lived in the five boroughs of New York City,[1] and over 1.9 million Jews lived in the New York metropolitan area, approximately 25% of the American Jewish population.[2]

Nearly half of the city's Jews live in Brooklyn.[3][4] ...


And this ...

Brooklyn, the Most Jewish Spot on Earth (2018)
www.hadassahmagazine.org

... By any measure, Brooklyn is the most Jewish place in America. Approximately 600,000 Jews now call the borough home, down from an incredible 900,000 in the 1940s. One in four Brooklyn residents is Jewish, the largest proportion by far among New York City's five boroughs, according to the most recent survey by the UJA-Federation of New York.

"There are more Jews right now in Brooklyn than anywhere else in the world, including the city of Tel Aviv," said Ron Schweiger, the borough's official historian, whose Flatlands home is a shrine to the long-vanished Brooklyn Dodgers (the team moved to Los Angeles in 1957). ...


Yet Brooklyn voted for Mamdani in the primary.


#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-06-29 08:59 PM | Reply

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Ooops....

Replying to wrong message.

Lemme try to sort this out ...



#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-06-29 09:02 PM | Reply

@#3

Wow, looks like a major cut 'n' paste error. ...

Lemme try to sort this out. ...

OK, it seems this "paste" onto this thread was in error...

@#126 ... In America we live under the Constitution, not the Bible. You incorporate Biblical values into your own life out of choice. ...

So why does the GOP appear to want to impose those values upon all?

Should the Ten Commandments be display in Texas classrooms?

If so, why?

Apparently the choice your comment states does not hold in Texas.


Yeah, that was a brain fart here.

Apologies.


#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-06-29 09:10 PM | Reply

OK, getting back on topic ...

Brooklyn, an apparent major Jewish population, voted for NY Rep Mamdani to represent them in the NYC mayoral race.

So, are the GOP attacks against him based upon their anti-Jewish imagined issues going to fail?


#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-06-29 09:14 PM | Reply

"Why it matters: Openly racist rhetoric has become normalized at the highest levels of American politics."

Congratulations, Republicans.
You Built That!

#6 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-06-29 09:26 PM | Reply

@#6 ... Congratulations, Republicans.
You Built That! ...

Yup. Apparently so, as this primary shows.

#7 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-06-29 09:32 PM | Reply

@#7 ... Yup. Apparently so, as this primary shows. ...

if I may add ...

Brooklyn, a major center for Jewish population in the world, voted for NY Rep Mamani.

So, why does the GOP seem to endeavor to try to bring up such hate-talk against him?

#8 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-06-29 09:36 PM | Reply

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#9 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-06-30 01:51 AM | Reply

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