{"id":7543,"date":"2025-10-21T14:23:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T14:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=7543"},"modified":"2025-10-21T14:23:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T14:23:44","slug":"shock-photo-of-nyc-mayoral-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=7543","title":{"rendered":"Shock Photo Of NYC Mayoral Candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Zohran Mamdani Faces Backlash Over Meeting with Controversial Imam<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New York City mayoral candidate&nbsp;<strong>Zohran Mamdani<\/strong>&nbsp;is under fire after appearing with&nbsp;<strong>Imam Siraj Wahhaj<\/strong>,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>a Brooklyn religious leader once named an&nbsp;<em>\u201cunindicted co-conspirator\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;in the&nbsp;<strong>1993 World Trade Center bombing<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mamdani shared a photo from the meeting on X, writing,&nbsp;<em>\u201cToday at Masjid At-Taqwa,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I had the pleasure of meeting with Imam Siraj Wahhaj\u2026 A beautiful Jummah.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wahhaj, who has denied supporting violence,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>has previously called for an&nbsp;<em>\u201carmy of 10,000 men\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;to wage a nonviolent&nbsp;<em>\u201cjihad\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;in New York City,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>saying,&nbsp;<em>\u201cDon\u2019t pick up a gun, no. Just march.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has also described the&nbsp;<strong>LGBTQ community<\/strong>&nbsp;as&nbsp;<em>\u201ca disease of this society.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to an intelligence report, Wahhaj\u2019s past rhetoric and ties to extremists pose<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201ca direct national security threat to New York City.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Republican candidate&nbsp;<strong>Curtis Sliwa<\/strong>&nbsp;condemned Mamdani\u2019s association, saying,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cNew York needs a mayor who protects New Yorkers from terrorism, not embraces terrorists.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zohran Mamdani Faces Backlash Over Meeting with Controversial Imam New York City mayoral candidate&nbsp;Zohran Mamdani&nbsp;is under fire after appearing with&nbsp;Imam Siraj Wahhaj, a Brooklyn religious leader once named an&nbsp;\u201cunindicted co-conspirator\u201d&nbsp;in the&nbsp;1993 World Trade Center bombing. Mamdani shared a photo from the meeting on X, writing,&nbsp;\u201cToday at Masjid At-Taqwa, I had the pleasure of meeting with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7545,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7543\/revisions\/7545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}