Zohran Mamdani, who has been chosen by 5% of the electorate and by the Democrat Party, as their candidate, appeared at a Brooklyn terror mosque where an Imam had previously prayed that Allah aid Hamas terrorists and “guide their shooting”.

In January, Mamdani, a Muslim candidate who only recently became a citizen, tweeted that he was joining “Jummah prayers at the Islamic Society of Bay Ridge today.” The tweet showed him appearing to speak next to Imam Muhammad Al-Barr.

5 months earlier, widely publicised video had appeared of Al-Barr at the same mosque praying for Islamic terrorists killing Jews.

Brooklyn Friday Sermon by Imam Muhammad Al-Barr: Oh Allah, We Ask You to Liberate Palestine from the Occupiers and Annihilate Them; Grant Victory to Our Mujahideen Brothers and Guide Their Shooting pic.twitter.com/dVf0sxp5pq

— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) August 22, 2024

“Oh Allah, we ask you to liberate Palestine from the occupiers and the plunderers. Oh Allah, grant victory to our mujahideen (Jihadist) brothers in Palestine,” Al-Barr prayed. “Oh Allah, annihilate those who occupied their lands.”

Al-Barr then hailed the Hamas terrorists who were “holding out, steadfast, after 316 days? 316 days! We ask Allah to make them strong and guide their shooting.”

This was far from the first event involving the terror mosque which Mamdani attended that praised terrorism, and expressed hatred for Jews and Christians.

MEMRI had documented multiple hateful examples.

Hamas flags were waved at a pro-terrorist rally that prayed at the hate mosque and a funeral service for a Hamas leader.

In a Friday sermon at the Fort Hamilton Islamic Society of Bay Ridge in Brooklyn on January 12, 2024, the speaker said that “the Christians, who are complicit [with the Jews] and agree and support them – they insult Allah” because they “attribute to Allah a son” and added: “What good can be expected from people whose hearts are corrupt?”

He concluded: “Let us take these lessons and teach it to our children. Teach them to hate everything about kufr (infidels): the holidays, the dress, the manners, and everything…”

The infidels in this case would be Americans

“And who is Allah angry with? The Prophet says, the Jews are those ‘who have incurred the wrath of Allah.’ Why? Because they have changed the Book of Allah with their hands. Can you imagine how corrupt, how evil one has to be, to change the sacred book, the Torah, with their hands, and [then] they say that this is from Allah.

“And the Christians who are complicit and agree and support them, they insult Allah. They attribute to Allah a son, and they attribute major, major sins to the prophets, so what good can be expected from people whose hearts are corrupt? Allah tells us what they are saying right now is just the tip of the iceberg. What they conceal in their hearts of hatred for you and your religion is greater.

This was almost mild compared to the rhetoric of the Islamic Society of Bay Ridge’s former imam.

Shata said that according to the Quran, Jews are described as liars, “the biggest liars among all of God’s creation,” and alleged that they cannot stop lying due to a “lying gene.”

A third characteristic, Shata claimed, is distortion, describing Jews as the “masters of forgery,” and alleging that forgery is like a religion to them. He listed a fourth trait as deception, claiming that Jews attempted to assassinate the Prophet Muhammad 11 times. He asked the congregation: “These are the people that you want to make peace with?”

Reda Shata was the subject of a 2006 three-part New York Times profile. At the time, he was the imam of the Islamic Society of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, the mosque involved in the 1994 murder of a 16-year old Jewish boy.

These are Zohran Mamdani’s ugly roots. This is the real hate behind his campaign’s hipster facade.