New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani criticized former New York governor Andrew Cuomo on Thursday for not visiting enough mosques during his time in office.
“It took Andrew Cuomo being beaten by a Muslim candidate in the Democratic primary for him to set foot in a mosque,” said Mamdani during a live debate against Cuomo. “He had more than ten years and he couldn’t name a single mosque at the last debate we had that he visited.”
Mamdani continued, “What Muslims want in this city is what every community wants and deserves. They want equality and they want respect, and it took me to get you to even see those Muslims as part of this city, and that frankly is something that is shameful and is why so many New Yorkers have lost faith in this politics.”
After Cuomo protested, “I’ve worked with the Muslim community for many, many years,” Mamdani asked, “Name a single mosque you went to while you were the governor. Can you name a single mosque you went to in ten years?”
“Before you were ever here, before you were even in state government, I worked with the Muslim community,” responded Cuomo. “Imams presided over state of the states. We worked in religious working groups, tolerance groups, anti-Semitic groups, etcetera.”
“You couldn’t visit a mosque,” Mamdani concluded.
The former New York governor campaigned at a mosque for the first time in his race last month.
Cuomo and Mamdani repeatedly traded jabs during the heated debate on Thursday, with Mamdani and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa at one point teaming up against Cuomo.
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