WASHINGTON: Zohran Mamdani &rsquo;s swift rise in New York City&rsquo;s mayoral race has made him into a national symbol &mdash; both as a point of pride among many Muslim Americans and a political foil for the right.&nbsp; His campaign has been met by a surge in anti-Muslim language directed at the Democratic nominee, who would become the city&rsquo;s first Muslim mayor if elected in November. Republican Andy Ogles of Tennessee called him &ldquo;little [M]uhammad&rdquo; and urged deportation. On social media, GOP Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina referenced 9/11 alongside a photo of Mamdani dressed in a kurta, a loose collarless shirt common in South Asia. Far-right activist Laura Loomer claimed without evidence that &ldquo;NYC is about to see 9/11 2.0.&rdquo; On many levels, Mamdani&rsquo;s run is a significant moment for the country and New York City, which endured 9/11 and the rise in Islamophobia that followed. &ldquo;He really does hold so much symbolism,&rdquo; said Youssef Chouhoud, a political scientist at Christopher Newport University. The campaign is a reminder of anti-Muslim discrimination, he said, but also of Muslim Americans asserting their right &quot;to lead this society moving forward.&rdquo; Politicians from both major parties have attacked Mamdani&rsquo;s progressive politics and criticism of Israel. Conservatives have leaned more heavily into religious attacks and anti-immigrant sentiments. President Donald Trump singled him out for censure and falsely questioned his U.S. citizenship, echoing &ldquo;birther&rdquo; rhetoric he once aimed at former President Barack Obama. At the National Conservatism Conference, multiple speakers used Mamdani&rsquo;s name and religion as attack lines, with former Trump adviser Steve Bannon calling the democratic socialist a &ldquo;Marxist and a jihadist.&rdquo; The rhetoric is all too familiar for many Muslim Americans, including Amani Al-Khatahtbeh, who faced slurs and death threats as the first Muslim woman to run for Congress in New Jersey in 2020. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re at a crossroads,&rdquo; she said via email. &ldquo;On one hand, Muslims are achieving unprecedented visibility and influence in political spaces. On the other, our dehumanization has never been so normalized and widespread.&rdquo; The threat of political violence Before his assassination last month, conservative activist Charlie Kirk wrote on social media that, &ldquo;America&rsquo;s largest city was attacked by radical Islam 24 years ago, and now a similar form of that pernicious force is poised to capture city hall.&rdquo; On his show, Kirk called Mamdani a &ldquo;Mohammedan,&rdquo; an antiquated term for Muslim, and warned about &ldquo;Anglo centers&rdquo; like New York coming &ldquo;under Mohammedan rule.&rdquo; Mamdani condemned Kirk&rsquo;s killing while decrying America&#39;s plague of political violence. In September, a Texas man was charged with making death threats against Mamdani, including calling him a terrorist and saying &ldquo;Muslims don&rsquo;t belong here,&rdquo; prosecutors said. Mamdani&rsquo;s campaign responded by saying these types of threats &ldquo;reflect a broader climate of hate that has no place in our city.&rdquo; &ldquo;We cannot and will not be intimidated by racism, Islamophobia and hate,&rdquo; the statement read. Islamophobia from 9/11 until now Anti-Muslim bias has persisted in different forms since September 11, 2001. New York City police ran a now-disbanded Muslim surveillance program. There was furor in 2010 over plans to build a Muslim community center in lower Manhattan. Nationwide, dozens of states introduced legislation aimed at banning Islamic law. &ldquo;At its core, anti-Muslim rhetoric is the same: that Muslims don&rsquo;t belong in this country, that they are perpetual foreigners, that they are a threat to American society and government,&rdquo; said Eman Abdelhadi, a sociologist at the University of Chicago. Critics of Obama, a Christian with Muslim ancestry, sought to use his connections to Islam as a political liability. As president, he spoke about his childhood years in Indonesia and his father&rsquo;s Muslim family in Kenya as assets in diplomacy. Trump amplified criticisms of Obama&rsquo;s background, stoking so-called &ldquo;birther&rdquo; rumors by falsely questioning whether Obama was born in the US. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s really created this new permission structure for people to more openly voice their anti-Muslim rhetoric,&rdquo; Chouhoud said. A similar playbook is being used with Mamdani. Born in Uganda to parents of Indian descent, he has lived in New York City since he was 7 and became a U.S. citizen in 2018. He was elected to the state Assembly in 2020. Despite that record, Trump has echoed a false allegation denying Mamdani&rsquo;s citizenship and immigration status. Democrats and the backdrop of the Israel war on Gaza&nbsp;Islamophobia and antisemitism have risen during the war in Gaza. Accusations of both have played out in the race for mayor of New York, a city home to the largest Jewish and Muslim populations in the US. Before dropping out, Mayor Eric Adams joined another Democrat, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, in calling Mamdani &ldquo;dangerous.&rdquo; Cuomo accused him of &ldquo;fueling antisemitism&rdquo; with sharp criticism of Israel. An outside group supporting Cuomo, who&#39;s now running as an independent, prepared a flyer that appeared to lengthen and darken Mamdani&rsquo;s beard, which Mamdani called &ldquo;blatant Islamophobia.&rdquo; Cuomo&#39;s campaign disavowed it and the mailer was never sent. Other Democrats have distanced themselves from Mamdani&rsquo;s progressive platform, critiques of Israel and staunch support for Palestinian rights. Senator&nbsp;Kirsten Gillibrand of New York apologized to Mamdani after incorrectly saying he referenced &ldquo;global jihad.&rdquo; At issue was his refusal to condemn other people&#39;s use of the slogan &ldquo;globalize the intifada.&rdquo; He later said he would discourage its use. Some see the phrase as a call for Palestinian liberation and rights, others as a call for violence against Jews. In an emotional news conference ahead of his primary win in June, Mamdani accused his rivals of using antisemitism to score political points. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve said at every opportunity there is no room for antisemitism in this city, in this country.&rdquo; Pride and hope from fellow Muslims Despite the controversies, many American Muslims are upbeat about a possible Mamdani victory. &ldquo;The abiding emotion ... is a really deep sense of hope,&rdquo; said Chouhoud, whose Brooklyn accent speaks to his New York roots. Shahana Hanif, a Mamdani ally and the first Muslim woman elected to the New York City Council, is optimistic. She said Islamophobia is being used as a fear tactic &ldquo;and it&rsquo;s just not working.&rdquo; Hanan Thabet, a born-and-raised New Yorker and a Mamdani supporter, said his campaign has energized her family after two years of grief over the killing and starvation of Palestinians in Gaza. So much so that her children &mdash; ages 10 and 8 &mdash; helped her phone bank for him. &ldquo;They&rsquo;re super excited to see this young, energetic, brown man, Muslim man, you know, potentially be our next mayor.&rdquo; As a mother, she feels like it&#39;s &ldquo;impossible to explain why it has become so socially acceptable to dehumanize Muslims and Arabs, and why our lives seem to matter the least.&rdquo; &ldquo;That is what makes Zohran&rsquo;s candidacy not only historic,&rdquo; she said, &ldquo;but necessary.&rdquo;

NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani participates during a ceremony commemorating the anniversary of the 9-11 terror attacks in New York, Thursday, September 11, 2025. (AP)

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Zohran Mamdani’s NYC mayoral run inspires hope among Muslims but faces intense Islamophobic attacks, political violence threats, and controversy amid rising Islamophobia and antisemitism linked to the Israel war in Gaza.

Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral bid sparks rise in anti-Muslim vitriol

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ISLAMABAD: Police said on Thursday that the suspect in the deadly attack outside a synagogue in Manchester in northern England was believed to be Jihad al-Shamie, a 35-year-old British citizen of Syrian descent, Reuters reported. &quot;We believe the person responsible for today&#39;s attacks is 35-year-old Jihad Al-Shamie,&quot; Greater Manchester Police said late on Thursday. &quot;He is a British citizen of Syrian descent.&quot; <div class="fr-embed responsive-video"><div class="video-wrapper aspect-video"><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="display: flex; max-width: 550px; width: 100%; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><iframe id="twitter-widget-0" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true" title="X Post" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-0&features=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%3D%3D&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1973846979466649865&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fmain.d1wrm1qseko1cp.amplifyapp.com%2Farticles%2F&sessionId=fd4cd7e0bfea93c57fe526e3d6e4fc001697d86b&theme=light&widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&width=550px" style="width: 100%; height: 100%; min-height: 0px;"></iframe></div></div></div> The attacker ploughed a car into a crowd outside a packed synagogue in Britain on a Jewish holiday, before going on a stabbing spree, killing two people and leaving four wounded, police said, according to AFP. Police said they shot dead the suspect and arrested three other people within hours of the attack in the city of Manchester, which took place as Jewish communities around the world marked Yom Kippur, the holiest holiday in the Jewish calendar. &lsquo;Terrorist incident&rsquo;The two dead victims were Jewish, police in the northwest English city confirmed, as counter-terror police declared it a &quot;terrorist incident&quot;.&nbsp; Four other people were seriously wounded. The three people arrested were &quot;two men in their 30s and a woman in her 60s&quot;, who were in custody &quot;on suspicion of commission, preparation and instigation of acts of terrorism&quot;, said Greater Manchester Police (GMP). &lsquo;Not functional&rsquo; vest&nbsp;The attacker wore a &quot;vest which had the appearance of an explosive device&quot;, but police revealed later that evening it was not functional. As night fell, Orthodox Jewish worshippers emerged from packed synagogues in Manchester after a day of prayers and fasting to learn about the attack, having switched off phones and computers for the day. Aryeh Ehrentreu, 56, who spent the day praying in a synagogue minutes away, said he had heard the ambulances arriving. &quot;Then the security asked us to close all our doors in the synagogue, so we knew the attack took place,&quot; Ehrentreu told AFP, calling the attack &quot;extremely worrying.&quot; Security beefed up&nbsp;Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who left a European summit in Denmark early to chair an emergency response meeting in London, announced security was being boosted at UK synagogues. Addressing Jewish communities directly in a televised statement shortly after the meeting, he vowed to &quot;do everything in my power to guarantee you the security that you deserve.&quot; <div class="fr-embed responsive-video"><div class="video-wrapper aspect-video"><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="display: flex; max-width: 550px; width: 100%; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><iframe id="twitter-widget-1" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true" title="X Post" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-1&features=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%3D%3D&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1973798805507056086&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fmain.d1wrm1qseko1cp.amplifyapp.com%2Farticles%2F&sessionId=fd4cd7e0bfea93c57fe526e3d6e4fc001697d86b&theme=light&widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&width=550px" style="width: 100%; height: 100%; min-height: 0px;"></iframe></div></div></div> He said while antisemitism was not new, &quot;We must be clear it is a hatred that is rising once again, and Britain must defeat it once again&quot;. According to a post on X, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood stated: &quot;The government has stepped up security at synagogues across the whole of the country, and we will do whatever is required to keep our Jewish community safe.&quot; <div class="fr-embed responsive-video"><div class="video-wrapper aspect-video"><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="display: flex; max-width: 550px; width: 100%; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><iframe id="twitter-widget-2" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true" title="X Post" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-2&features=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%3D%3D&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1973824171299012725&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fmain.d1wrm1qseko1cp.amplifyapp.com%2Farticles%2F&sessionId=fd4cd7e0bfea93c57fe526e3d6e4fc001697d86b&theme=light&widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&width=550px" style="width: 550px; height: 921px; min-height: 0px; position: static; visibility: visible;"></iframe></div></div></div><h2 style="line-height: 2;"> </h2><h2 style="line-height: 2;">&lsquo;Serious injuries&rsquo;</h2>GMP said it&nbsp;was alerted shortly after 9:30 am (0830 GMT) that a car had driven into people outside the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue and a security guard had been attacked with a knife. Chief constable Stephen Watson confirmed later that &quot;two members of our Jewish community have sadly died&quot;, adding officers had shot dead the attacker within seven minutes of the first emergency call, AFP reported. Four other people remained in hospital with &quot;serious injuries&quot;, he said. Swift action&nbsp;&quot;The driver of the car was seen then to attack people with a knife&quot; while wearing a fake explosives vest. Police praised the swift action of people who reported the attack, saying it had stopped the suspect from entering the synagogue. A witness told BBC Radio he saw police shooting a man after a car crash. &quot;They gave him a couple of warnings, but he didn&#39;t listen until they opened fire,&quot; the witness said. &lsquo;Shocked and saddened&rsquo;King Charles III said he and Queen Camilla were &quot;deeply shocked and saddened&quot;. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was among the world leaders to condemn the attack. &quot;Houses of worship are sacred places where people can go to find peace,&quot;&nbsp;Guterres said. &quot;Targeting a synagogue on Yom Kippur is particularly heinous.&quot; Jewish community in the UKManchester, renowned for its two Premier League football clubs and its industrial heritage, is home to one of the largest Jewish communities in the UK. It totaled more than 28,000 in 2021, according to the Institute for Jewish Policy Research.

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A British citizen of Syrian origin killed two and wounded four in a terrorist attack outside a Manchester synagogue during Yom Kippur, prompting increased UK synagogue security and global condemnation amid rising antisemitism concerns.

UK synagogue attacker identified as British citizen of Syrian descent

MANCHESTER: An assailant drove a car into people outside a synagogue Thursday in northern England and then began stabbing them, killing two and seriously wounding three in a terrorist attack on the holiest day of the Jewish year, police said. Officers shot and killed the suspect, Greater Manchester Police said, though it took authorities some time to confirm he was dead because of concerns he had an explosive on him. The Metropolitan Police in London, who lead counter-terror policing operations, declared the assault a terrorist attack. Assistant Commissioner Laurence Taylor said two other suspects were arrested, though he provided no further information on the arrests. The attack took place as people gathered at an Orthodox synagogue in suburban neighborhood of Manchester on Yom Kippur, the day of atonement and the most solemn day in the Jewish calendar. Antisemitic incidents in the UK rose following Israel&rsquo;s military campaign in Gaza, according to Community Security Trust, an advocacy group for British Jews that works to eliminate antisemitism. More than 1,500 incidents were reported in the first half of the year, the second-highest reported since the record set a year earlier. &ldquo;This is every rabbi&rsquo;s or every Jewish person&rsquo;s worst nightmare,&rdquo; said Rabbi Jonathan Romain, of Maidenhead Synagogue and head of the Rabbinic Court of Great Britain. &ldquo;Not only is this a sacred day, the most sacred in the Jewish calendar, but it&rsquo;s also a time of mass gathering.&rdquo; Witnesses describe a car driving toward the synagogue and then a stabbing attack In a series of posts on X (formerly Twitter), Greater Manchester Police said they were called to the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue shortly after 9:30 a.m. &mdash; shortly after services were set to begin. The caller said he saw a car being driven toward members of the public and that one man had been stabbed. Chava Lewin, who lives next to the synagogue, said she heard a bang and thought it might be a firework until her husband ran inside their house and said there had been a &ldquo;terrorist attack.&rdquo; A witness told her that she saw a car driving erratically crash into the gates of the house of worship. &ldquo;She thought maybe he had a heart attack,&rdquo; Lewin said. &ldquo;The second he got out of the car, he started stabbing anyone near him. He went for the security guard and tried to break into the synagogue.&rdquo; Minutes later, police fired shots, saying they believed they had hit the assailant. Video on social media showed police with guns pointed at a person lying on the ground beneath a blue Star of David on the brick wall of the synagogue. A bystander could be heard on the video saying the man had a bomb and was trying to detonate it. When the man tried to stand up, a gunshot rang out and he fell to the ground. Police later detonated an explosion to get into the suspect&#39;s car. Manchester was the site of Britain&rsquo;s deadliest attack in recent years, the 2017 suicide bombing at an Ariana Grande concert that killed 22 people. Authorities declare an emergency Immediately after the attack, police declared &quot;Plato,&rdquo; the national code-word used by police and emergency services when responding to a &ldquo;marauding terror attack.&quot; Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he was appalled by the attack and additional police officers would be deployed at synagogues across the UK. He flew home early from a summit of European leaders in Copenhagen, Denmark, to chair a meeting of the government&rsquo;s emergency committee. &ldquo;The fact that this has taken place on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, makes it all the more horrific,&rdquo; Starmer said on the X platform. King Charles III said he and Queen Camilla were &ldquo;deeply shocked and saddened&Prime; to learn of the attack &ldquo;on such a significant day for the Jewish community.&Prime; &ldquo;Our thoughts and prayers are with all those affected by this appalling incident and we greatly appreciate the swift actions of the emergency services,&rsquo;&prime; he said on his social media feed.

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A suspected terrorist attacked a synagogue in Manchester on Yom Kippur, killing two and injuring three. Police shot the attacker and arrested two others, declaring a terror incident.

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