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Zohran Mamdani won by being himself – and his victory has revealed the Islamophobic ugliness of others | Nesrine Malik

ZAhran Mamdani Amazing victory in the municipal elementary in New York The story of two cities, and two Americans. In one of them, a young man with a vibrant progressive policy against the deity of the decomposing institution, with their giant financing and networks and support for democratic Scions, and won. Elsewhere, in a horrific attack of racism and Islamic fear, Muslims were hostile to the most important city in the United States, with the aim of imposing some of the socialist/Islamic regime. Like liquid hatred, permeability and staining, anti -Muslims hatred is spreading without deterrence and not identifying it after Mamdani’s victory. It takes a lot of the United States to shock these days, but Mamdani managed to stir up or expose an obscene degree of standard bias.

Politicians, public figures and members of the Donald Trump administration and Sesbit for all social media paintings combined to produce what can only be described as a collective hallucinations that are self -caused; Boca image It spread to the statue of freedom; White House Chief of Staff, Stephen Miller, saying that Mamadani’s victory is what happens when it is a country Failure to control immigration. Republican Congress member Andy Eugelis decided to summon Mamdani “Little Muhammad” Seam To make it attractive and deportation. It was The name “A terrorist sympathetic” and “a jihadist terrorist.”

It is a measure of the extent of racist reactions that Donald Trump calls Mamdani “Communist madness” to be restricted to comparison. Some of the responses were so hysterical that I often could not know what was real and what was a satirical simulation. Because the idea that Mamdani, whose style, is above anything else, is widely serious, some of the evil Islamic agent was clearly a joke.

But it is not a joke, and if this is the case, this will remain on me, after all these years, reduces what Muslims do in the public sphere of the brains of people. And how comfortable is completely many with hostile hatred for Muslims. And why should they not be? To date, the largest numbers in the Mamdani Party, Chuck Schumer and Hakim Jeffrez, Insecure This attack, and these politicians and public figures who made them will not blame the result. Because, mainly, the anti -Muslims hatred, like all racism when it becomes normalized, flourishes when there is a systematic blessing by not recording its attack.

But indifference to the attacks against Mamdani is that it is strange in more feasible ways, not only in his religious background. His crime is not bold to be a Muslim and politician – it may be “passed” if it was a traditional democratic appearance – but about the presence of strong opinions on the economy and the policy that distinguishes it as a competitor to the prevailing Orthodoxes in relation to capitalism and Israel.

Looking at his left views on Taxes And the control of the rent, and objections to the slaughter of the Palestinians over ten cents in the United States, was always likely to be a violent reaction to Mamdani. But he did a lot to confront him. It has made comprehensive Interpretations From his grief from anti -Semitism, whoever pledges to combat all hate crimes, and the fact that his economic agenda is based on the city’s manufacture, before it. food for him Child careMore at reasonable prices.

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His crime was not wanting to reduce his principles, not on the line on Israel, and not to make embarrassing assurances, such as Those who run against him I did, that Israel would be his first foreign trip. He refrained from expressing himself through the serial condemnation of the phrases that were arbitrarily constructed as Litmus tests for the Muslim’s public domain.

Mamdani to reject To reject the phrase “globalization of the uprising”, on the basis that it expresses “desperate desire for equality and equality in rights in defending Palestinian human rights” it was seized as support that it supports a kind of violence against the Jews. What do we do here?

There is no degree that can become an acceptable Muslim Mamdani while keeping these opinions – although they are clearly universal enough to receive confirmed support from the population of New York, including from Jews Those who voted in his favor, and the Jewish candidate Brad Lander, who I supported him. It cannot be secular enough, or American enough, or the elite enough, as a film maker and a professor, to hold a policy that will not be reduced to his identity suspected of nature.

Even in behavior, he talked about how he was constantly measuring his dialect, fearing that he would be stained as a “monster”. In this, it reflects a wider and strange fact-where Muslims and the boys supporting the Palestinians are condemned as threatened, while there is a huge attack on their rights and safety all over the world, just to oppose an irreplaceable crime in Gaza. One of the procedures for detention and deportation against activists, such as Mahmoud Khalil in the United States, to distort and secure speech and activity in support of the Palestinians in UK and EuropeThe Messenger was shot, and then framing as the aggressor.

However, the stains, transfers, and outrageous extrapolation will not change the facts on the ground, which is that the Israeli state occupies the West Bank, and is starving and killing the Palestinians in GazaHe is accused of committing war crimes and genocide, all under the auspices of the United States and the support of Western regimes. In this sense, Mamdani’s victory He is A threat, because it reveals how finally, has lost all attempts to maintain the unbearable and unbearable situation on the increasing number of people who think about themselves.

Mamdani is not a mayor yet, and he may face an escalating campaign using his identity as a way to discredit his economic and political beliefs. Here is the place where the response to its victory is worrying and perhaps driven, such as the accumulation of Kouleli to the final collapse of the fever. Mamdani is the place he does not turn to because he is not alone. Not a long bullet. In extracting such abstract hatred and anti -Muslims, Mamdani unveiled unintentionally about ugliness and weakness not only for his opponents, but from the broader political institution, as well as their anti -democracy.

When they are removed from Mamdani, Mamdani rarely revolves around individuals, but the fear that the views of the marginalized minority may become a strong majority. In this municipal race, from Palestine to the local police, anti -Muslims hatred is not just a repellent phenomenon in Mamdani, it is a barrier against the desires of the public who votes. Once people start making this call, it really ended.

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