Mamdani Promotes Islam: His Photo of Himself Praying With Sanitation Workers Was Not Benign

Last Sunday, as a massive blizzard hit New York City, Comrade Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani posted praise of municipal workers on X: “Grateful for the public workers who keep NYC running — especially in a blizzard. From 5am suhoor with @NYCSanitation to visits to @nycparks’ Randall’s Island garage, DSNY’s Flushing plow shed & @nycdot’s salting operation … it’s working people who show up for NYC.”

Mamdani included four photos, including one of him praying with four Muslim workers from the Department of Sanitation; suhoor is the meal that Muslims eat before dawn during Ramadan, as the fasting period begins with the rising of the sun. He did not, however, bother to explain how observing Ramadan with sanitation workers, or praying with them, did anything to help “keep NYC running.”

And of course it is obvious that his point in including this photo and the note about “5 am suhoor with @NYCSanitation” was not to show how indefatigably city employees were working to keep New York running even in the face of immense challenges, but to show that he himself engages in Muslim prayers, and that there are Muslims among city workers. Most people, especially leftists, will readily acknowledge this and praise the boy mayor for his commitment to “diversity” and “inclusion.”

Yet there is nothing that is actually inclusive about Mamdani’s act. He did not and would not have posted photos of Jewish or Christian city workers praying before they undertook their municipal duties, and that is not simply because he does not belong to either faith. The unpleasant and unwelcome fact is that as a believing Muslim, Mamdani is actually not interested in being “inclusive” of either Jews or Christians or any other non-Muslim group.

He has already made that clear in his first two months as mayor. Among numerous actions that make his distaste for Jews and Israel abundantly clear, he has left out of his proposed city budget any funding for the Department of Community Safety, which was supposed to fight antisemitism. He became the first mayor in over a century to skip the installation of the new Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York.

Meanwhile, a massive crowd of Muslims gathered in Times Square last Friday night. One of them, addressing the enthusiastic crowd, cried out “Takbir!” which means roughly, “Proclaim the greatness of Allah,” or more specifically, “Say ‘Allahu akbar.’”

When the crowd then dutifully breaks out with a lusty cry of the Islamic war chant, the speaker responds sarcastically: “Oh, don’t scare them, brothers! Relax! They’re over here on purpose to be like, ‘Oh my God!’ Who’s seen those videos where they’re like, ‘Oh my God, the Muslims are taking over New York City!’ Seen those? You seen those? Let them know that we are taking over New York City! Takbir!” And the crowd responds even more enthusiastically than before with a hearty “Allahu akbar.”

About this, Mamdani was silent. Now, one might charitably conclude simply that he is a busy man, consumed with the manifold responsibilities of his new office, and he doesn’t have either the time nor the duty to speak out about what every nut says at every public gathering in New York City.

Fair enough. But imagine for a moment if a group of Christians, or even worse in Mamdani’s eyes, a group of Jews had gathered in Times Square and loudly proclaimed that soon, very soon, they would be seizing political power in New York City and beyond. If such a thing had happened, as unlikely as it is, do you think Mamdani would have remained silent? Or would he have rushed to his bully pulpit to denounce this “white Christian nationalism” or “Zionist supremacism” in the strongest possible terms? Yes, it really isn’t even a question.

Leftists have made the bogeyman of “white Christian nationalism” the centerpiece of their opposition to patriots’ efforts to head off the spread of Sharia in the U.S. When I testified recently before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government, the Democrats who were present repeatedly brought up the specter of “white Christian nationalism” and claimed it was much more of a threat than Sharia. Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.), finally called them out, pointing out that in decades as both an active Christian and a politician, he had never encountered a single “white Christian nationalist.”

Indeed. The left’s fears are based on a fiction of their own making, while, as Mamdani himself no doubt well knows, Islam’s expansionist and violent agenda is real. When he posted his photo of himself praying with the Muslim sanitation workers, he tacitly endorsed that agenda. New York City, as we all well know, is in for a rough ride.