New York City Democratic Party mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani campaigned Friday with radical Imam Siraj Wahhaj, an Islamist who was an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
Mamdani promoted his meeting with Wahhaj on social media, referring to him as “one of the nation’s foremost Muslim leaders and a pillar of the [Bedford-Stuyvesant] community for nearly half a century.”
Today at Masjid At-Taqwa, I had the pleasure of meeting with Imam Siraj Wahhaj, one of the nation’s foremost Muslim leaders and a pillar of the Bed-Stuy community for nearly half a century. I was also joined by CM @dr_yusefsalaam of Harlem. A beautiful Jummah. pic.twitter.com/4kcN4CGlUk
— Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@ZohranKMamdani) October 18, 2025
Wahhaj is a radical who has encouraged attacks against the U.S., and who was linked to the 1993 WTC plot, a precursor to the 9/11 Al Qaeda terror attacks that toppled both of the towers. The New York Post reported:
Lefty NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani gleefully campaigned this week with a notorious, gay-hating Brooklyn imam who is an unindicted co-conspirator in 1993 World Trade Center bombing and who has been linked to other terrorist activity in the United States — including urging “jihad” on the Big Apple.
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Wahhaj, 75, who also heads the Muslim Alliance in North America, was fingered by prosecutors as an “unindicted co-conspirator” in the 1993 WTC bombing, which left six people dead, and has publicly defended the plotters of the attack against the FBI and CIA, whom he at the time dubbed the “real terrorists.”
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Ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democratic running as an independent for mayor, ripped Mamdani for posing for the photo with Wahhaj, considering the imam’s terrorism links and history of gay bashing – and for doing it less than two weeks after posing in another notorious pic with Ugandan Deputy Prime Minister Rebecca, who has pushed some of the most oppressive anti-LGBT laws in the world.
Wahhaj says he is not a terrorist.
Wahhaj’s son, Siraj ibn Wahhaj, was arrested in 2018 for keeping starving children on a rural compound in New Mexico and training them to carry out school shootings.
The other individual who posed with Mamdani is New York City Council member Yusef Salaam (D-Manhattan), a member of the “Central Park Five,” a group once accused of gang rape, freed, and now used frequently by Democrats in attacks on President Donald Trump, who had used the incident to protest against crime. (Read more: Breitbart, 10/18/2025) (Archive)