After Islamist attack, Mamdani slams victims as white supremacists

And CNN, NYT, Wikipedia spread misinformation

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Two ISIS-inspired Muslims threw bombs at peaceful protesters in New York City outside Mayor Mamdani’s residence last week. The protesters were voicing their opposition to the threat of Islam in the city — and they clearly had a point — when a much larger, pro-Islam counter-protest formed nearby featuring a man in a Palestinian keffiyeh waving the red flag of Shia martyrs and comedian Walter Masterson shouting into a bullhorn, “I’m born and raised in New York and we want everyone to stay in New York! You don’t get to come from outside and then tell everyone else—” But he was cut off when, in a chef’s kiss of poetic irony, one of the terrorists shoved him aside and screamed Allahu Akbar! as he threw his bomb right over Masterson’s head.

Being a good woke, Masterson later ran to X where he condemned … white supremacy. Specifically, the leader of the anti-Islam protest Jacob Lang, who stormed the Capitol on January 6 and ended up spending four years behind bars for 11 counts, including attacking Capitol officers with a baseball bat. The next day, Mamdani held a press conference to comfort the people of New York, in which he made perfectly clear that such a disgusting attack against New Yorkers would not be tolerated, and in no uncertain terms, he condemned radical Islam. Nah, just kidding. Mamdani condemned white supremacy:

Good morning. On Saturday, a protest was held outside Gracie Mansion, where I live with my wife, Rama. Neither of us were home at the time. This was a vile protest rooted in white supremacy entitled, “Stop the Islamic takeover of New York City.” I’m the first Muslim mayor of our city. Anti-Muslim bigotry is nothing new to me, nor is it anything new for the 1 million or so Muslim New Yorkers who know this city as our home.

I really hate how white supremacists always go around blowing people up in the name of Allah. That passage, by the way, was the only reference Mamdani made to Islam in his speech, framing Muslims as victims in the wake of this Muslim attack and echoing his remarks in October when he said, “I want to speak to the memory of my aunt who stopped taking the subway after September 11 because she did not feel safe in her hijab.” He did not speak to the memory of the 2,977 people who stopped taking the subway after September 11 because they were incinerated by radical Muslims.

The two terrorists were brown young men of Afghan and Turkish origin, and because of the talking point about white supremacy, it’s important to note that they were brown and not white. According to the federal criminal complaint filed by the Justice Department on Monday, when an NYPD officer asked the terrorist Ibrahim Kayumi why he threw the bomb at peaceful protesters, he replied, “ISIS.” His co-jihadist Emir Balat pledged allegiance to the Islamic State on paper and said the goal had been to carry out a bigger terrorist attack than the Boston Marathon bombing. Specifically, he said, what he meant by this was more death and suffering. So they packed their bombs with nails, screws, and bolts in order to shred and mutilate anyone they failed to kill.

Thankfully, the bombs fizzled rather than detonated and police officers rushed in with the kind of muscular reflex that is the stuff of NYPD legend.

“Some people wear capes — Chief Aaron Edwards wears blue,” via NYPD News.

Mainstream news did what mainstream news reliably does by warping the facts beyond recognition in the most grotesque manner. CNN initially described the horrific attack on X as if the two terrorists were just a couple of regular American teens trying to enjoy the warm weather. Separately, CNN news anchor Abby Phillip initially described the event as an attack against Mamdani, rather than against the anti-Islam protesters. The X post was later deleted and Phillip later apologized, saying she made an “error.” But never mind that there was clear footage of the event and it went viral immediately. Never mind that Phillip is not some Disney-brained TikTok influencer, but a CNN anchor and former White House reporter from whom we should expect better. All that aside, these “errors” always go in the same direction.

The New York Times didn’t perform any better. After Mamdani blamed white supremacy, the Times ran a story headlined “Mamdani Chooses His Words Carefully After Alleged Terror Attack.” Aside from the offensive claim that blaming white supremacy was a carefully thought-out choice — hell, maybe it was, maybe Mamdani knows exactly what he’s doing — there’s also the fact that this story ran on March 9, three days after the attack and long since half the internet had already seen the footage of the terrorists literally throwing the bombs. So why in the world are they saying alleged terror attack? Generally, you use that term when a crime has not yet been adjudicated in court because guilt is undetermined. But that rule doesn’t apply when you have footage of the crime. But the Grey Lady didn’t stop there. Behold:

Accused of bringing a bomb? As the journalist Melissa Chen wrote, “Bro is literally holding a looney toons ass bomb with a lit fuse and it’s SMOKING.”

The real story here isn’t just that two radical Muslims tried to slaughter a crowd of peaceful protesters in the heart of New York City. It’s that the city’s own political leadership as well as the institutions responsible for telling us the truth about such events — and keeping us informed and safe as a consequence — seem almost pathologically incapable of doing their jobs. When brown Muslims shout Allahu Akbar! while throwing nail-packed bombs as peaceful protesters, and the political and media reflex is to go digging for white supremacy under the couch cushions, we’ve got a real problem. Especially because this is deliberate misdirection. Especially because none of this would happen if the attackers had been white.

If you check the Wikipedia article for this story, Jacob Lang — who, whatever you think about the man, was a victim here — is mentioned by name. But the two attackers are not. There are no details about the bombs. No mention of Mamdani’s speech or the egregious media missteps. The article says the attackers “allegedly” tried to detonate bombs and refers to them as “suspects.” But again, we have them on film carrying out the attack. We know their names. We know they did it. Wikipedia’s leftist bias has been obvious, and studied, for some time now, but it’s been getting worse as of late. It used to be that for incidents like this, Wikipedia was a rich mine of data, often more comprehensive than any news article. But now that woke editors have largely taken over, it is often barely worth glancing at anymore.

The impulse to misdirect blame, conceal facts, and outright lie in the name of not drawing negative attention to nonwhites or Muslims is not a good one. That instinct doesn’t make New Yorkers safer. What it does is erode public trust by signaling that some forms of extreme violence will always be minimized, misreported, or reframed to fit a racist ideological script. What it does is batter already-crippled public trust in political leadership and the media at a time when we dearly need both. That’s frighteningly dangerous because when the people tasked with naming threats refuse to name them, the public eventually stops believing anything else they say. Rightfully so. But as Mamdani and these outlets apparently fail to understand, or simply do not care, that puts us all in danger. Including Muslims.

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