{"id":56111,"date":"2025-10-25T06:57:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T11:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/25\/the-racism-and-islamophobia-behind-many-of-the-attacks-on-zohran-mamdani\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T06:57:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T11:57:36","slug":"the-racism-and-islamophobia-behind-many-of-the-attacks-on-zohran-mamdani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/25\/the-racism-and-islamophobia-behind-many-of-the-attacks-on-zohran-mamdani\/","title":{"rendered":"The racism and Islamophobia behind many of the attacks on Zohran Mamdani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Critics of the Democratic nominee for NYC mayor have called him everything from \u2018jihadist candidate\u2019 to \u2018terrorist sympathizer\u2019<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday morning, hours after a combative final New York mayoral debate that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/oct\/23\/shouting-and-ready-to-bump-chests-with-trump-but-nobody-moved-the-needle-in-the-final-new-york-mayoral-debate\">failed to move the needle<\/a> in his favor, Andrew Cuomo\u2019s attacks on progressive Democratic rival Zohran Mamdani resumed a familiar, racially charged theme.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGod forbid, another 9\/11, can you imagine Mamdani in the seat?\u201d the independent candidate and former governor told conservative radio talkshow host Sid Rosenberg, referring to the 2001 terrorist attacks on New York City by Islamic extremists.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/oct\/25\/zohran-mamdani-attacks-racism-islamophobia-\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critics of the Democratic nominee for NYC mayor have called him everything from \u2018jihadist candidate\u2019 to \u2018terrorist sympathizer\u2019 On Thursday morning, hours after a combative final New York mayoral debate that failed to move the needle in his favor, Andrew Cuomo\u2019s attacks on progressive Democratic rival Zohran Mamdani resumed a familiar, racially charged theme. \u201cGod &#8230; <a title=\"The racism and Islamophobia behind many of the attacks on Zohran Mamdani\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/25\/the-racism-and-islamophobia-behind-many-of-the-attacks-on-zohran-mamdani\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The racism and Islamophobia behind many of the attacks on Zohran Mamdani\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}