Some images capture a memory we desperately want to forget and a future we fear to face. When Zohran Mamdani, the frontrunner for mayor, posed for a photo grinning arm-in-arm with Imam Siraj Wahhaj of Masjid At-Taqwa on Friday, he made a statement that re-awakened the trauma of the terror attacks on New York. Visiting a radical Islamist like Wahhaj was not just another stop in Mamdani’s campaign, but part of a pattern of aligning with extremists. Some politicians justify such alliances through ignorance of the countless shades of Muslims and Islamists. But with Mamdani’s rich cultural background, he should...
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