Mamdani Needs to Abandon Munir Model to Serve NYC

New York is the headquarters of the UN, and leaders from across the world come there. A Mayor Mamdani may not succeed in arresting any of the leaders on his list of enemies, but for purposes of grandstanding may make the effort, and grab international headlines.

- M.D. NALAPAT

Judging by several of his public utterances, prospective US mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani seems more in the ideological mould of "Field Marshal" Asim Munir than he does anyone in India. President Trump has spoken of Mamdani as a "communist", and Vice-President J.D. Vance, whose loyalty to his Commander-in-Chief is total, has similarly used political phraseology to characterise Mamdani.

If what he has so often said in public bears any resemblance to his actual views, Zohran Mamdani, prospective Mayor of New York City, is much worse than such descriptions. Judging by what is in the public domain, he is a religious extremist devoid of any of the finer qualities of the great faith of Islam. A man who seems to have such an intense dislike of Jews and Hindus must have the same adverse views about the Christian faith as well, as also about moderate Muslims.

He speaks of an imaginary genocide of the prosperous Muslim communities in Gujarat, yet his language suggests a mindset tuned towards a culling out of the population of at least the Hindus and Jews in New York. With such a mindset, it is logical to assume that Christians would have been next, had the numbers made such a faith-based elimination impractical.