Zohran Mamdani: A Polished ‘Progressive Muslim’ Driving Pro-Jihad Narratives and Hatred of Hindus

It is now confirmed that last week’s massive blast in India’s national capital was carried out by Islamic jihad suicide bomber Umar un Nabi, underscoring yet again that academic qualifications alone do not shield individuals from turning to jihad. For most Indians, it is hardly surprising that an educated and professionally established Muslim man turned out to be a terrorist. In fact, the average non-Muslim Indian is well aware of how a significant section of this community openly defends such suicide bombers. These so-called “moderate Muslims,” who do not shy away from acting as apologists for Islamic terrorists, are often found in the elite sections of society, both in India and abroad.

Many Western readers may not realize this, but New York’s newly elected Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s father was an educated Muslim academic known for openly sympathizing with jihadist narratives. Mahmood Mamdani, a Ugandan scholar, author, and political theorist of Indian origin, is widely respected in Islamo-leftist ideological circles as an outspoken intellectual specializing in decolonization studies. But there is much more to him. In his zeal to criticize Western interventions, colonialism, and global power structures, Mahmood Mamdani has repeatedly humanized terrorists and suicide bombers in his writings.

In his book When Victims Become Killers, Mamdani falsely alleges that Hindus committed genocide against Muslims in India. Historical records, however, clearly establish the opposite: Muslim invaders-turned-rulers began the genocide of Hindus over a thousand years ago. This brutality continued for centuries, and culminated in the run-up to India’s partition, through bloody anti-Hindu pogroms such as the Noakhali riots and the Calcutta killings. It did not end there; it continued for decades after partition in tragedies such as the mass massacre and exodus of Kashmiri Pandits. In his 2004 book Good Muslim, Bad Muslim, Mahmood Mamdani even argues that suicide bombers or fidayeen should be regarded as “soldiers.”

As the saying goes, the apple does not fall far from the tree. Zohran Mamdani appears to have inherited his admiration for Islamic jihadists from his father. Blatant Hinduphobia, anti-India disinformation, and antisemitism marked his entire mayoral campaign, while he carefully packaged himself as a “progressive Muslim.” In reality, Mamdani Jr. espouses a pro-jihad worldview, building his political career on Hindu hate, distortion of facts, and the propagation of lies to advance Islamic interests in the Western world, while cultivating sympathy for jihad-sympathizing Muslim populations through fabricated narratives of victimhood.

A vocal supporter of Palestinian “freedom fighters,” Mamdani once described the establishment of the Ram Mandir as “a celebration of the destruction of a mosque.” He is a well-educated man and fully aware of historical facts: the Ram Mandir was reclaimed after an Islamic invader demolished the original temple 600 years ago and built a mosque over its ruins. However, when history does not fit his narrative, Mamdani and his ideological allies conveniently overlook it.

The mayor-elect has also claimed, only months ago, that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is a war criminal who “left no Muslims alive” in Gujarat after the 2002 riots. He conveniently omits the fact that the violence was triggered after hundreds of Muslims set a train on fire, burning alive 59 Hindu devotees of Lord Ram, including women and children. Mamdani hides these facts because they do not fit into his carefully crafted narrative of Muslim victimhood, which he sells easily to his gullible Western voter base.

Over the past ten years, the Gujarat Anti-Terrorism Squad has arrested several Islamic terrorists linked to ISIS and Al-Qaeda. There have also been numerous cases of rape, sexual exploitation, kidnapping, and forced conversion of Hindu women, including minors, in the state. So much for Mamdani’s claim that “no Muslims were left in Gujarat after 2002.”

Zohran Mamdani’s hatred for Hindus runs so deep that he once openly provoked his opponents to hurl abuse at the Hindus while leading an anti-Ram Mandir protest in New York in 2020. A now-viral video shows the New York mayor-elect leading a mob of protestors in Times Square, calling Hindus “harami” (bastards) and heaping abuses upon Lord Rama, who Hindus worship, and thus winning roaring approval from the large Muslim vote bloc he targets in his political calculations.

During a recent “emotional speech” in October, Mamdani accused his opponents of “racist, baseless attacks.” Yet the only thing baseless so far is his own anti-Hindu rhetoric and fabricated claims of Muslim persecution. Mamdani has made his Muslim identity the centerpiece of his political persona, which has helped him consolidate the Muslim vote bloc, much like London Mayor Sadiq Khan, who enjoys similar support from a unified community that votes collectively, regardless of individual preferences.

As long as Zohran Mamdani remains the mayor of New York, Hindus will have to live under the looming fear of targeted violence and attacks by jihad groups that the administration emboldened and shielded. And given the trajectory of his rhetoric, it would surprise no Hindu if, one day, he glorifies the Islamic suicide bomber involved in the recent Delhi blast and commemorates him as a “soldier” or “freedom fighter.” The Pakistan-backed terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammad literally translates to “The Army of Prophet Muhammad,” after all.

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Ashlyn Davis

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