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News18
08-07-2025
- Politics
- News18
Zohran Mamdani Faces Backlash Over Visit To Mosque Where Cleric Praised Hamas
New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani faced criticism after he was photographed visiting a Brooklyn mosque led by a cleric who has publicly praised Hamas and called for the 'annihilation of Israel." On January 17, Zohran Mamdani posted a photo on social media showing him standing beside Sheikh Muhammad Al-Barr, the imam of the Islamic Society of Bay Ridge, writing, 'It was a privilege to join Jummah prayers at the Islamic Society of Bay Ridge today."
Hindustan Times
08-07-2025
- Politics
- Hindustan Times
Zohran Mamdani visited Brooklyn mosque whose cleric called for ‘annihilation of Israel'
New York City mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani, on his campaign trail, had visited a Brooklyn mosque whose cleric had last year called for the 'annihilation of Israel". 'It was a privilege to join Jummah prayers at the Islamic Society of Bay Ridge today,' Mamdani captioned a photo of him at the mosque.(AP) In a photo posted by Zohran Mamdani on social media, he can be seen standing beside cleric Sheikh Muhammad Al-Barr at the Islamic Society of Bay Ridge. 'It was a privilege to join Jummah prayers at the Islamic Society of Bay Ridge today,' Mamdani captioned the January 17 post. The post was made five months after Al-Barr's sermon at the Brooklyn mosque, wherein he appealed to God to 'liberate Palestine from the occupiers and the plunderers'. 'Oh Allah, annihilate those who occupied their lands, and those who betrayed and deserted them, and those who spilled their blood,' Al-Barr said in Arabic, according to New York Post. Mamdani courts fresh political controversy on college admission A fresh political controversy erupted with Mamdani at its centre, after a New York Times report on his college application to Columbia University in 2009. The report stated that in his application, Mamdani had claimed both Asian as well as Black or African-American status. Following this, the Democratic nominee's rivals slammed him for claiming African-American status in order to further his chances of admission to the university, at a time when the institution had race-sensitive affirmative action policies in place. Incumbent New York City mayor Eric Adams said the identity was a 'history, struggle and lived experience', adding that it was not 'a checkbox of convenience'. Mamdani was born in Uganda to filmmaker Mira Nair and Indian-Ugandan academic Mahmood Mamdani. He says that he identifies as an 'American born in Africa'. However, Mamdani said he had checked multiple boxes on the college application form 'to capture the fullness of my background', while saying that there was no box for Indian-Ugandans.
Memri
21-05-2025
- Politics
- Memri
Imam Harris Ali in Oklahoma Friday Sermon: The Jews Have Always Been Cowardly, Backstabbing People; They Are Committing a Holocaust - May Allah Give Them What They Deserve
In a Friday sermon delivered at the Islamic Society of Norman, Oklahoma, on May 9, 2025, Imam Harris Ali said that throughout history, the Israelites have been cowardly, betraying, backstabbing people who attack women and children. 'That is how they were, and this is how they will always be,' he said. 'And so they taste a little bit [of power], and look what they do.' He emphasized that the Jews used these same tactics in the past and are using them again today. Ali further stated: 'The same thing they claim – 'The Holocaust happened to us' – they are committing upon others. May Allah give them what they deserve.' According to the Norman Transcript, on May 2, 2025, Imam Harris Ali offered a prayer in Arabic during the National Day of Prayer observance at the Cleveland County Courthouse in Norman, Oklahoma.
