Grinning Mamdani Poses for Photo With Unindicted WTC Bombing Co-Conspirator.
PULSE POINTS
❓WHAT HAPPENED: Democrat New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani shared a photo with Imam Siraj Wahhaj, an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: Zohran Mamdani,Imam Siraj Wahhaj, andterroristOmar Abdel Rahman.
📍WHEN & WHERE: October 2025 at Masjid At-Taqwa in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.
💬KEY QUOTE: “If we were united and strong, we’d elect our own emir [leader] and give allegiance to him. … Take my word, if 6-8 million Muslims unite in America, the country will come to us.” — Imam Siraj Wahhaj
🎯IMPACT: The photo has renewed scurtiny regarding the radical sect of Islam Mamdani follows, his radical, far-left political ideology, and his personal association with violent Islamists.
IN FULL
Democrat New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani shared a photo on social media on Saturday in which he appears with radical Islamist Imam Siraj Wahhaj, an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. In the post, Mamdani praised Wahhaj as one of America’s foremost Muslim religious scholars and a local Brooklyn community leader.
“Today at Masjid At-Taqwa, I had the pleasure of meeting with Imam Siraj Wahhaj, one of the nation’s foremost Muslim leaders and a pillar of the Bed-Stuy community for nearly half a century,” wrote the Uganda-born Democratic Socialist, who is joyfully smiling in the photo.
Wahhaj previously defended Omar Abdel Rahman, the notorious radical “blind sheikh” cleric who was convicted along with nine others of plotting the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. According to recordings obtained by federal investigators, Rahman went on to encouraged further violence against targets in New York and New Jersey.
Before his 2017 death in federal prison, Rahman led Al-Jama’a al-Islamiyya, an Egyptian miliant Islamist group desigated as a terrorist organization by the United Kingdom and the European Union (EU). The groups’s terrorist designation in the United States was dropped by the former Biden government in 2022.
In addition, Wahhaj has drawn public scrutiny for a series of controversial statements including, a 2017 sermon on jihad, declaring, “I pray one day Allah will bless us to raise an army, and I’m serious about this. We were very close, recently. We had made intention to raise an army of 10,000 men in New York City.” In 1992, he argued, “If we were united and strong, we’d elect our own emir [leader] and give allegiance to him… Take my word, if six to eight million Muslims unite in America, the country will come to us.”
Speaking on the jihad in Afghanistan in Toronto, Canada, in 1991, Wahhaj stated: “Those who struggle for Allah, it doesn’t matter what kind of weapons [you use], I’m telling you it doesn’t matter! You don’t need nuclear weapons or even guns! If you have faith in Allah and a knife! If Allah wants you to win, you will win! Because Allah is the only one who fights. And when his hand is over your hand, whoever is at war against my friends, I declare war on them…. The Americans are not your friends … The Canadians are not your friends … The Europeans are not your friends. Your friend is Allah.”
Currrent polling shows Mamdani, himself a follower of the radical Twelver sect of Shia Islam, leading in the mayoral race over his opponents, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) who is running as an Independent candidate and Republican Curtis Sliwa.
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