As of now, 600,000 people have seen this video of Imam Siraj Wahhaj, the imam whose terror mosque Mamdani visited and spoke at, and whom he had embraced, reviling and cursing America, celebrating Jihad and describing politics as a weapon in the cause of Islam.
I and many others had posted these quotes before, but it’s fundamentally different to hear them directly from Wahhaj, the fury, the malice and the hatred in his tone.
The closest thing to it are the Rev. Jeremiah Wright videos damning America for Barack Obama.
Since Freedom Center Investigates dug up, edited and compiled the footage, originally featured in the valuable documentary from Steve Emerson and the Investigative Project on Terrorism, The Grand Deception, it has been seen by over half a million people, it was interacted with by several members of Congress, and continues to spread.
The video compellation is a gamechanger because Imam Wahhaj is blunt and clear in expressing his disdain for America. And Mamdani did not just happen to visit his mosque, but was part of an Islamist network that included Wahhaj as I discuss in today’s article. ‘Mamdani’s Terror Mosque Called for Taking Over America’.
Mamdani, who had pledged to defund the NYPD, spoke at the mosque which had been under NYPD surveillance because, in the words of a legal filing by New York City, the mosque’s Imam was “named as an unindicted co-conspirator in a plot to bomb a number of New York City landmarks”, “illegal weapons trafficking by members of the mosque’s security team” and that “the assistant Imam had earmarked portions of over $200,000 raised in the mosque to… terrorist organizations.
Before Mamdani carpetbagged his way to Queens to displace a local councilwoman in a district being settled by fellow Pakistani and Bangladeshi ‘Indian’ Muslims, he got his start in politics as a board member of the Muslim Democratic Club of New York (MDCNY). MDCNY had been co-founded by Linda Sarsour, who recently bragged, “I would be honored to die a martyr”, and who had described Wahhaj as her “a mentor” and “my favorite person in the room.”
When Mamdani became a board member at MDCNY, he joined a board that included not only Sarsour, but her close friend, Faiza Ali, the former ‘Community Affairs Director’ for CAIR, which recently came out in defense of Wahhaj, and which has endorsed the Hamas attacks of Oct 7, Debbie Almontaser, whose “Intifada NYC” ended her previous effort to create a Muslim public school and Aliya Latif, whose brother Imam Khalid Latif had hailed Wahhaj as his hero.
Imam Khalid Latif and Sarsour recently fronted an MDCNY event at the ‘Middle Church’ on championing Mamdani’s campaign. But Imam Latif’s biggest moment in the spotlight came after the Islamic terrorist attack at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando when it turned out that the killer had joined a trip led by Latif to Mecca after which the future shooter was flagged by the FBI.
Key MDCNY figures had backed the lawsuits against the NYPD that had dismantled its ability to monitor Islamic terror mosques like Al-Taqwa and paved the way for future terrorist attacks.
But, as Sirraj Wahhaj had preached, “I will never ever tell people, ‘don’t be violent, that is not the Islamic way.’ The violence has to be selected.” The selected violence over the years had included members of the Al-Taqwa mosque’s security team styling themselves “Jihad warriors” and “Jihad assassins”. One of those participants, Farooque Ahmed, was sentenced to 23 years in prison for plotting an attack on a rail station in Arlington, Virginia, when he scouted the area and then handed over his findings to what he believed was an Al-Qaeda terrorist, advising him to plant the bombs during the commute to maximize casualties.
More recently, Wahhaj’s son and family members were busted running a terrorist training camp for kids in New Mexico. The targets were to be “military, law enforcement, and financial institutions.”
Connect the dots and what you’ll see is incredible.
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