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Podcast: Townhall Review | Commentaries
Episode: Carol Platt Liebau: Mamdani’s Revealing Early Days as Mayor
Description: New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani recently attended prayers at an Islamic Center with documented ties to the Alavi Foundation, which the Justice Department has identified as an Iranian front organization. While the mayor was there, an imam prayed for the Mahdi—a Messianic figure in Islamic eschatology—to kill all “infidels.” The Constitution protects the free exercise of religion. But that does not require political leaders to legitimize rhetoric that casts fellow Americans as enemies of God—that ought to be killed. At other recent events in Times Square, Islamic speakers have declared i...