Zohran Mamdani’s campaign isn’t just entering the race for New York mayor, it’s importing a combustible mix of international grievances and provocative identity politics. At a recent town hall, Mamdani declared Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi a “war criminal” and claimed that his leadership during the 2002 Gujarat riots amounted to a mass slaughter so severe that “we don’t even believe there are Gujarati Muslims any more”. That sweeping characterization provoked swift backlash from politicians and commentators in India, reminding Mamdani, and voters, that millions of Muslims still live in Gujarat, constituting at least 10% of the population, according to census data .

But Mamdani’s incendiary rhetoric didn’t stop at verbal assaults. In 2020, during a high, profile protest in Times Square against the construction of the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya, the mob around Mamdani chanted demeaning slogans such as “Who are the Hindus? Harami (bastards).He remained notably silent amid the dehumanizing chant, instead doubling down by condemning the temple project as a symbol of “Hindutva extremism” .

The fallout was explosive. Assemblymember Jenifer Rajkumar denounced his statement calling Modi a war criminal as “fostering anti, Hindu sentiment” during a time when New Yorkers should be focused on tangible crises like rising crime and the housing crunch. Indian, American author Indu Viswanathan labeled Mamdani’s rhetoric “frustrating and polarizing,” accusing him of trading foreign conflict as campaign fodder. A viral social media thread amplified the criticism, calling Mamdani a “terror sympathizer” and a “Hindu, hating bigot,” flooding platforms with outrage.

Beyond targeting India, Mamdani’s positions hint at broader ideological confrontations. He once referred to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a “war criminal” and defended the slogan “Globalize the Intifada” as a call for equality, prompting further denunciations from Jewish and mainstream observers wary of violent language echoing into urban politics.

Taken in aggregate, a leader who likens world leaders to war criminals, who tolerates and remains silent amidst hate chants, who channels foreign geopolitical strife onto city streets, Mamdani’s approach paints him less as a leader and more as a purveyor of spectacle. His critics argue that New York doesn’t need a protester in the mayor’s office, it needs a pragmatic builder. In a city stretched thin by affordability crisis, public safety challenges, and gridlocked transit, the stakes couldn’t be higher to choose unity over polarization.

Mamdani is not a socialist or leftist. He more seems a closet Islamist who hates Jews & Hindus. His mother Mira Nair who masqueraded as a leftist married a billionaire and leads a seven star life. Its shocking to hear he is a front runner for Mayor of one of the greatest ciities in the globe New York. Americans it seems are easily gullible and have a poor idea of what is good or bad for them & they deserve Mamdani and the rest of these jokers as well