Mamdani Reacts to Anti-Islam Rhetoric During PBS News Interview: ‘It’s Being Echoed from the Highest Offices in This Country’

RUSH EXCERPT:MAMDANI: "I Think there's an unabashed nature to it, and it is being echoed from the highest offices in this country. They do so without any sense of shame and what is remarkable about islamophobia and anti Muslim bigotry is not that it is bigoted for there’s so much bigotry in this country. It is that there are very few who speak up in opposition to it, the manner in which has become normalized, and it is not exclusive to any one political party. It is endemic frankly to our Paula. Ethics and what this kind of bigotry shows is a complete eraser of the million or so Muslims who call the city hall. Whose identity has often been one that they are made to feel as, if is intention with being a New Yorker. When, as I grew up here, I understood in so many others did that there is no tension and those identities they can be one in the same."

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Mamdani Reacts to Anti-Islam Rhetoric During PBS News Interview: ‘It’s Being Echoed from the Highest Offices in This Country’‘They do so without any sense of shame’News & PoliticsRUSH EXCERPT:MAMDANI: "I Think there's an unabashed nature to it, and it is being echoed from the highest offices in this country. They do so without any sense of shame and what is remarkable about islamophobia and anti Muslim bigotry is not that it is bigoted for there’s so much bigotry in this country. It is that there are very few who speak up in opposition to it, the manner in which has become normalized, and it is not exclusive to any one political party. It is endemic frankly to our Paula. Ethics and what this kind of bigotry shows is a complete eraser of the million or so Muslims who call the city hall. Whose identity has often been one that they are made to feel as, if is intention with being a New Yorker. When, as I grew up here, I understood in so many others did that there is no tension and those identities they can be one in the same."Video filesFullCompactSort byDateSummaryRelevancePopularityPer page81216Audio filesFullCompactSort byDateSummaryRelevancePopularityPer page81216Recipient e-mailMessage (optional)Preview

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