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Home Front: Politix
Mamdani appears smiling, arm-in-arm with unindicted ‘93 WTC bombing co-conspirator and terrorist apologist
2025-10-19
[NYPost] Lefty NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani gleefully campaigned this week with a notorious, gay-hating Brooklyn imam who is an unindicted co-conspirator in 1993 World Trade Center bombing and who has been linked to other terrorist activity in the United States — including urging "jihad" on the Big Apple.

The Democratic frontrunner to become the city’s next mayor was seen laughing and grinning while standing arm-in-arm with Siraj Wahhaj at the Iman’s Bedford-Stuyvesant mosque in a photo the socialist posted to X a day after the first mayoral debate.

Councilman Yusef Salaam (D-Manhattan), a member of the Central Park 5
…during a night of wilding in Central Park in 1989, investment banker Trisha Meili, 28, was brutally beaten and raped, which left her in a coma for two weeks and no memory of the attack. Five black and hispanic teens confessed to the deed at the time and went to prison, only to be exonerated in 2002 by DNA evidence that identified habitual murderer-rapist Matias Reyes, for which the lads won multi-million dollar payouts from New York City and NY State…
who was elected in November 2023, was also in the photo.

"Today at Masjid At-Taqwa, I had the pleasure of meeting with Imam Siraj Wahhaj, one of the nation’s foremost Moslem leaders and a pillar of the Bed-Stuy community for nearly half a century," Mamdani wrote on X of the Friday encounter.

"A beautiful Jummah," he wrote, referencing the weekly prayer.

Wahhaj, 75, who also heads the Moslem Alliance in North America, was fingered by prosecutors as an "unindicted co-conspirator" in the 1993 WTC bombing, which left six people dead, and has publicly defended the plotters of the attack against the FBI and CIA, whom he at the time dubbed the "real terrorists."

In a sermon in the early 2000s, Wahhaj — born Jeffrey Kearse — called for an army of 10,000 men to wage jihad on New York City, according to a foreign intelligence assessment obtained Saturday by The Post.

The religious figure also made headlines in 2018 when three of his children were arrested for keeping 11 kids living in "Third World" conditions in a compound made of garbage in the New Mexico desert.

One of the victims told prosecutors Wahhaj’s namesake son was training a 13-year-old and his teen brother to fight against non-believers through techniques including rapid reloads and hand-to-hand combat.

The intelligence report claimed Wahhaj homeschooled his children and likely shaped the krazed killer ideology of the busted terror cell.

However,
a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package...
Wahhaj has insisted he was the one who called the police on his sick son and two daughters, leading to their arrest. They were sentenced to life in prison last year.

Mamdani did not return messages. Wahhaj could not immediately be reached for comment.
PJ Media has more, adding:
And even after all this, Wahhaj’s influence hasn’t disappeared. In 2023, he endorsed Yusef Salaam, one of the infamous Central Park Five, for a New York City Council seat, proving once again that his sympathies lie with radicals, not with law and order.

Mamdani’s record already reads like a warning label. He’s a socialist who has never met a radical cause he didn’t want to promote. Sadly, Democratic enthusiasm for Mamdani is only growing. According to recent polling, Mamdani now commands over half the likely vote, leaving former Governor Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa scrambling behind him.

It’s as if New York has traded common sense for collective amnesia. The same city that once vowed “never again” in response to terror now cheers on a man who shakes hands with those tied to it. Mamdani’s defenders will call it guilt by association, insisting he’s merely engaging with the Muslim community, but let’s be honest about which “community leader” he’s embracing. At this point, the warning signs couldn’t be clearer.

The radicalism is right there in plain sight, the alliances are proudly on display, and yet the polls suggest New Yorkers simply don’t care. For those of us who remember New York before the 9/11 attacks, it’s almost unbearable to watch this city flirt with the same kind of blindness that once led to tragedy. If Mamdani actually takes City Hall, it won’t be because no one saw it coming; it’ll be because too many chose not to.
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