Wait, wait, wait.

Mamdani is 34?

So...when 9/11 happened he was a Ugandan boy of 10.

So what is the "plausible" excuse for mentioning it every time his face shows up?

Or can we just break down the wall and finally say it's flat-out islamophobia?

And if you're wondering what's my stake? A) human rights are human rights; B) I have many Muslim friends; and C) my daughter is Muslim. We raised the kids with full rights: including freedom of religion. The Charter of Rights in Canada does not have any age limit.

So yes, were we as lesbian parents personally jazzed about her choice of a religion that has had some bad history with queer rights? Not really. But we didn't interfere. She has the right.

So i have some personal stake here too. I want my daughter - and my friends, whom I met largely when they helped our local queer community grieve after the Pulse nightclub horror, showing my fear to be crude and unknowing about the currents of thought in Islam about social justice - to be safe and free to worship as they please. It doesn't need to be my issue for me to fight for it. It needs to be about human rights, and you'll have me on board.

10 years old. But he's supposed to condemn it daily, and even when he does, he gets accused of having cheered it anyway. At 10. In Uganda.

Don't ever tell me that's not rank islamophobia. Bigotry. Evil. Something an antifascist might try to rally against.

Well done, Mr. Mayor. Take good care of NYC. Lot of good folk there.

#MamdaniNYC

“The interest from the closely guarded world of Mr. Obama and those around him is the clearest sign yet that Mr. Mamdani is likely to be embraced by the Democratic mainstream, whether the party’s leaders and donors like it or not. It comes at a time of dueling visions among voters, Democratic politicians and donors over the future of the party.”

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/opinion/mamdani-obama-democrats.html