2025-11-06
26 分钟When Zoran Mumdani won the election to become the next mayor of New York City,
he expressed a sense of relief.
More than one million Muslims know that they belong.
Not just in the five boroughs of this city, but in the halls of power.
No more will New York be a city where you can traffic in Islamophobia and win an election.
And as he wrapped up his victory speech, he walked offstage to a Bollywood sock.
It was a historic result, New York's first Muslim mayor born in Uganda.
But for Mamdani's critics, his victory has set off alarm bells.
On election night,
President Trump's ally and former adviser Steve Bannon made a very particular warning.
This is going to be the wokest city on planet Earth.
You have this guy, Mandami, is a neo-Marxist and a jihadist.
Think about the red-green alliance that we've talked about for a long time,
that Trevor Loudon and Frank Gaffney and Raheem Qassam warned you that Sadiq Khan was the model of that in London.
And look what he's turned London into.
That's what New York City is going to be London in less than 10 years.
I think in about five years.
London and its Muslim mayor, Sadiq Khan, have long been invoked by Donald Trump in his support.
as a cautionary tale of what could happen here in the US.
From the BBC, I'm Asma Khalid in Washington, DC.