by Daniel Greenfield

(Front Page Magazine) After the scandal of Zohran Mamdani meeting with Imam Siraj Wahhaj broke, the New York Post did what the rest of the local media refused to do, reporting on the fact that the candidate for mayor had…

• posed with an unindicted co-conspirator in the Blind Sheikh plot to bomb NYC landmarks
• spoke at a mosque that had been under NYPD surveillance for its terror ties
• embraced an imam who had called for Jihad and the takeover of America

As part of its reporting, the New York Post even picked up the viral video that Freedom Center Investigates posted in which Wahhaj spewed hate at America.

Here’s Mamdani’s Imam, Siraj Wahhaj, calling America “filthy” and “sick”, saying it’s an honor to die in Jihad and saying that getting involved in “politics is a weapon in the cause of Islam” pic.twitter.com/eBR4SoI7X6

— Daniel Greenfield – “Hang Together or Separately” (@Sultanknish) October 19, 2025

 Mamdani had no defense against any of this except to cry ‘Islamophobia’. And his Islamist allies at CAIR went one better by threatening to stop distribution of the New York Post to suppress its reporting on Mamdani.

CAIR, Emgage and a group of Yemeni bodega owners rallied to threaten the newspaper for reporting the truth about Mamdani and Wahhaj and demanding “a public apology to Imam Siraj Wahhaj, Muslim Americans” and “an end to government officials legitimizing the Post’s platform”.

CAIR, notably, is a prominent backer of the Mamdani campaign, and the rally’s organzier, Debbie Almontaser, was a board member of the Muslim Democratic Club alongside Mamdani so these are really close Mamdani associates threatening the paper for reporting on the candidate.

BREAKING: The Council on American-Islamic Relations is calling for a boycott of the New York Post over its accurate coverage in exposing Zohran Mamdani’s deep ties to Imam Siraj Wahhaj.

They hate the truth.
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— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) October 21, 2025

There’s no attempt even being made to disprove the facts about Wahhaj, which includes quotes from the anti-American extremist, just brute force intimidation and censorship.

New York City is getting a taste of how Islamists wield any power that they have, to silence, suppress and terrorize all opposition. There is no free speech or a free press under Islam. And there won’t be a free press if Islam rules over New York.