Mayor Candidate & Imam Wahhaj Controversy

NYPD slams mayor candidate Mamdani for supporting Imam Siraj Wahhaj, linked to terrorism. Wahhaj's past includes controversial statements and family connections to terror plots, raising concerns.

” To recall at now at this individual who is competing mayor who sympathizes with the same individuals that desired just death and destruction for this city is practically a dishonesty to that office and what it is that it ought to represent,” Vinny Vallelong, head of state of NYPD Sergeants Benevolent Association, told The Blog post.

Imam Siraj Wahhaj speaks about Malcolm X on the 55th anniversary of his fatality during a special meeting with Anadolu Firm in New York City, USA on February 18, 2020. Anadolu Firm via Getty Images

Wahhaj’s Troubling History

In spite of his suspicious history, Mamdani on Friday called the popular imam “among the country’s primary Muslim leaders and a column of the Bed-Stuy neighborhood for virtually 50 years” as he postured for pictures with him on the campaign route.

Imam Siraj Wahhaj speaks about Malcolm X on the 55th anniversary of his death during a special meeting with Anadolu Firm in New York City, United States on February 18, 2020. Anadolu Firm by means of Getty Images

Wahhaj’s boy was captured in 2018 and punished to life in jail after being founded guilty of maintaining a band of teens in squalor in the New Mexico desert while educating them to bring out terror strikes across the nation.

Controversial Statements by Wahhaj

Wahhaj was considered by government prosecutors to be an “unindicted co-conspirator” in the 1993 Globe Trade Center bombing that left 6 dead provided a number of individuals associated with the terror strike attended his mosque.

Here’s Mamdani’s Imam, Siraj Wahhaj, calling America “dirty” and “unwell”, claiming it’s an honor to die in Jihad and stating that obtaining involved in “politics is a weapon in the root cause of Islam” pic.twitter.com/eBR4SoI7X6

While Mayor Eric Adams was pictured together with Wahhaj at a yearly interfaith morning meal with spiritual leaders in 2015 when he was Brooklyn District President, an insider informed The Article he has actually never ever campaigned with the iman.