Zohran Mamdani wins his own victory – his victory reveals other people’s Islamophobia | Nesrine Malik

zOhran Mamdani’s Amazing victory in the New York mayoral primary It has always been a story of two cities and two Americas. In one, a young man with hopeful, progressive politics with the institution’s decay of God with their enormous funding, networks, and democratic distances, and won the victory. In another, in shocking racism and Islamophobia, the Muslim anti-Semitism occupied the most important cities in the United States with the aim of implementing some socialist/Islamic regimes. Like wastewater, spicy and smearing, anti-Muslim hatred is spread unrestricted and unchallenged after Mamdani wins. Nowadays, this requires the United States to be shocked, but Mamdani manages to stir up or expose the mainstream bias of obscene levels.

Politicians, public figures, Donald Trump’s administration members, and social media sewage groups all co-create hallucinations that can only be described as collective self-caused; Burqa’s image On the Statue of Liberty;White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller said Mamdani’s victory was a country Unable to control immigration. Republican Congressman Andy Ogles decides to call Mamdani “Little Mohammed” petition Let him transgender and deport him. He used to Called “Hamas terrorist sympathizers” and “jihadist terrorists”.

By contrast, Donald Trump calls Mamdani a “communist madness” seemingly limited, a measure of racist response. Some of these reactions are so hysterical that I often can’t say what is real and what is imitation. Because Mamdani’s style is most important, Mamdani’s style is a sinister Islamic sleeper agent, which is a joke.

But it’s not a joke, if that’s after all these years, I’m still on me, underestimating what Muslims in the public sphere do to people’s brains. Many people feel very comfortable with anti-Muslim hatred. Why don’t they do this? By far, Mamdani’s own party’s top figures, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries, owned Didn’t call out This violent attack, those who kept their politicians and public figures from being condemned or consequences. Because fundamentally, anti-Muslim hatred, like all racism, is prosperous when it becomes normalized when it systematically blesses it without even recording its offensiveness.

But the indifference to attacking Mamdani is because he is an outsider in a more meaningful way, not just in his religious context. His crime is not one of those who dare to be one of Muslims and politicians – if he were traditional Democratic costumes, he might have “passed” – but rather had a strong view of economics and politics, which marked him as a challenger to mainstream orthodoxy, to capitalism and capitalism and orthodoxy. Israel.

Considering that he is tax and rent control, and opposition to Palestinian massacres over the US dime, strong opposition to Mamdani is always possible. But he made a lot of objections. He’s completely explain His hatred of anti-Semitism, his commitment to combating all hate crimes, and his economic agenda is based on the city food Go to it Parentingmore affordable.

His offense has been reluctant to downplay his principles rather than surrendering to Israel, rather than making awkward assertions, e.g. Those who run towards him Having done that, Israel will be his first foreign trip. He demeaned himself by serial condemnation of phrases that were arbitrarily erected as a stone sound test of the acceptability of Muslims in the public sphere.

Mamdani’s reject Refusal to reject the term “globalization uprising” on the grounds that “the urgent desire for equality and equal rights and equal rights representing the rights of the Palestinians” is a sign that he supports some kind of violent jihad – a reading that ignores his frequent assertion that Israel has the right and condemnation of violence against Jews. What are we doing here?

While holding these opinions, Mamdani is not of much degree among Muslims – although they are obviously universal enough to gain strong support from New Yorkers, including Jews Who voted for him, Jewish candidate Brad Lander Acknowledge him. As the son of a filmmaker and professor, he cannot be secular enough, enough Americans or enough elites to hold politics that his inherent suspicious identity cannot be reduced.

Even in his manner, he talked about how he constantly measured his tone so that he would not be painted as a “beast.” In this regard, he reflects a broader, outrageous reality – Muslims and pro-Palestinians are condemned as threatening, while the world has caused a huge attack on their rights and security, only because of opposition to undisputed crimes in Gaza. From the US detention and expulsion lawsuits against activists such as Mahmoud Harrier to the stain and securitization of pro devaluation U.K. and Europethe messenger was shot and then used as the invaders frame.

But smears, transfers, and outrageous inferences will not change the fact on the ground that the Israeli state is occupying the West Bank, starving and killing Palestinians Gazaand charged with war crimes and genocide, all under the patronage of the United States and support for the Western regime. In this sense, Mamdani’s victory yes A threat because it reveals how all attempts to remain undecisive and intolerable in the end lose control of the increasing number of people who think about themselves.

Mamdani is not even the mayor yet, and he may face escalating movements as his own to discredit his faith, both economically and politically. It was his reaction to victory that was both shocking and potentially driving, such as the ultimate breakthrough accumulation of the ultimate fever. Mamdani is where he is because he is not alone. Not a long shot. Mamdani, while absorbing this naked and explicit anti-Muslim hatred, inadvertently reveals his opponents, and the ugliness and weaknesses of the broader political institutions and their anti-democratic impulses.

In taking them out, Mamdani shows that bias is rarely for individuals, but fearing that marginalized minority perspectives may become strong majority. In this mayoral race, anti-Muslim hatred, from Palestine to local policing, is not only limited to the expulsion of Mandani, but also a barrier to the desires of the voting public. Once people start to make that connection, it does end.