In the future after the New York Metropolis mayoral debate, Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani overtly campaigned at a mosque alongside Imam Siraj Wahhaj, an unindicted co-conspirator within the 1993 World Commerce Middle bombing.
As a substitute of distancing himself, Mamdani proudly highlighted the occasion.
He even posted about it publicly, as if daring New Yorkers to miss the hazard.
For years, warnings about Mamdani’s ties to Wahhaj have circulated. Wahhaj was named by federal prosecutors as a co-conspirator within the terror plot that killed six and injured greater than a thousand.
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Regardless of this, he continues to function an imam in New York and has donated to Mamdani’s marketing campaign.
He stays an influential determine in the identical activist networks which have normalized radicalism below the banner of “progress.”
The connections don’t cease there. Linda Sarsour, the anti-Israel activist who has publicly defended Hamas sympathizers, calls Wahhaj her mentor.
His son, Siraj Wahhaj Jr., operated a jihadi compound in New Mexico the place kids have been indoctrinated and skilled to commit terrorist assaults.
Federal authorities reported that the group stockpiled weapons, plotted mass homicide, and buried the stays of kids on the positioning.
Members of the compound received life sentences.
These are the folks surrounding Mamdani. These are the networks attempting to grab political energy in New York Metropolis.
As a substitute of distancing himself, Mamdani embraces them.
BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani proudly campaigned with Imam Siraj Wahhaj, named an unindicted co-conspirator within the 1993 World Commerce Middle bombing. Wahhaj has donated to Mamdani’s marketing campaign and stays tied to extremist networks. pic.twitter.com/x7Hpa92UDP
— Gregory Lyakhov (@GregoryLyakhov) October 18, 2025
Past terrorism, Mamdani has additionally advanced a harmful imaginative and prescient for schooling.
He prioritizes radical coverage over educational excellence, utilizing school rooms to advertise ideology reasonably than studying. That’s the place YouthVote is available in.
YouthVote’s mission is easy however pressing: defend America’s faculties by exposing extremist candidates, holding faculty boards accountable, and giving dad and mom the instruments to defend their kids’s schooling.
The group has conducted dozens of investigations nationwide, uncovering how radical candidates twist schooling into activism and depart college students behind.
Each pupil deserves a classroom targeted on information, not indoctrination.
Each dad or mum deserves the fitting to decide on faculties that prioritize studying over politics.
And each voter deserves to know when candidates like Mamdani align themselves with extremists who’ve spent a long time undermining America.
New York Metropolis can not afford leaders who cozy as much as radicals with histories of violence and extremism.
YouthVote will proceed to make clear these candidates, defend households, and battle for school rooms freed from politics.
Support its mission by subscribing and sharing their work—as a result of defending kids’s schooling should all the time come earlier than defending politicians with extremist ties.
