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Two retired FBI agents who investigated the World Trade Center bombings told the World Trade Regital News New York City Bomber Mamdani “is connected to the Imam who was connected to the attack.
Mamdani went to prayers on Friday at the Fultun Street Masjid in Brooklyn’s Bedford’s Bedford-Stuyved, after dissuading innocent terrorists, raising money for their legal protection.
“Today at Masjid At-Taqwa, I had the pleasure of meeting Imam Siraj Wahhaj, one of the leading Muslim leaders of the nation and a pillar of the community with a bed,” said Mamdani, who was in the community in bed, “said Stuy in the Bomy-Stuy family in the north garage of the North Trade Center.
Zohran Mamdani Tweeted Friday about his meeting with Imam Siraj wahhaj and Yusef Abdus Salaam. (@ Zohrankmammamdamdamdani / x)
Agent Frank Pellegrino, retired Feb. 26, 1993 he attacked, said Frontrenner to be the next Mayor of the City and Wahhaj left him disgusted.
“Zhoran Mamdaj’s Embrace of Siraj Wahhaj is an example of Mamdani’s ignorance of history. Either he doesn’t know who wahhaj is or he doesn’t care. Either way, Mamlegrino looks stupid,” said Pellegrino.
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John Anticev, another retired FBI agent who was the agent in the case of the 1993 attack, told FOX News Mamdani should have known better than to let Wahhaj.
“Every politician should be careful about the donors they receive,” AntiCEV said. Imam Siraj Wahhaj was a preacher who endorsed a radical agenda. “
Wahhaj, born Jeffrey Kearse, founded the Brooklyn Mosque in 1991 and has a long history of controversy. After the World Trade Center Attack, prosecutors identified him as a co-exploding hole after the appearance sponsored by Sheikh Obdel Rahman, the so-called “so-called” found by the prosecution. Wahhaj was not charged with any crimes and denied involvement in the attack. Wahhaj also raised funds for the legal defense of El Sayyid Nosair, who killed Rabbi Meir Kahane in 1990 and was also convicted of treason in connection with the 1993 bombings.
Wahhaj did not respond to a request for comment.
In court, Wahhaj served as a character witness for Abdel Rahman, calling him a “respected scholar.” With the evidence, he also agreed to increase the legal defense fee for Nosana, who was initially released for the murder of Kahane, but now the sentence.
New York City Democratic Mayor Mayaya and Zohran Mamdani speak during an interview with “Martha Maccallum” on Fox News on Wednesday, Oct. 2025, New York City. (Photo by Evan Agostini / IVIVINI / AP)
For Muslims who oppose the interpretation of Wahhaj’s political views, called Islamism, Mamdani’s alliance with the disturbing windows in his restoration of Mayors, who are sympathetic to Muslims and anti-Anti-Semitic.
Islamic scholar Dalia Ziada, Washington, DC, coordinator and researcher at the Institute for global antisemitism and policy, said the wahhaj represents similar Islamic views that have sparked decades in the Middle East.
“I am very concerned to see mosques being used as political platforms in the United States Free and Democratic,” he said. “By embracing the Wahhaj, Zohran Mamdani carves out moderate Muslims and normalizes a fringe ideology that once inspired terror on American soil and still animates the movement of American society today.”
Soraya Deen, the founder of the Muslim Women Speakers Movement and the founder of the Clicumity Coalition, a network of Muslims, Muslims and Allimis launched for the first time 20 years ago in Los Angeles.
“I was surprised and confused by his call to destroy America, and make Muslims great,” she said.
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Deen called Mamdani’s image of Wahhaj disturbing, noting, “a theologian who spews hatred towards the United States – with Mamdani smiling at his side, calling him one of the leaders of Islam in Islam – is dangerous for Muslims.”
In the photo, a woman cannot be seen, because Wahhaj also made an interpretation of Islam that denies women access to the main hall of mosques, which they believe will sexually tempt the men who pray inside. Deen said, “Despite the Gender Jihad women are facing in the Muslim world, Mamdani evokes a powerful image of women’s rights.”
In June, the Political Committee to support Mamdani, “New Yorkers at a lower cost,” – accepted $100,000 in donations from “Unity and Justice Fund,” The Political Affairs Committee of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the group appointed an unindicted coconspirator of the five leaders of the Land Found Foundation. Five leaders were found guilty of conspiring with $12.4 million to Hamas and sentenced to decades in prison. Mamdani included emotional lyrics about the “Holy Holy Elephant” in the rap. Earlier this year, Nihad Awad, founder of the Council on American-Islamic Relations and a close ally of the wahhaj, he said He was ‘excited’ about Oct. 7, 2023, the strengthening of Hamas terrorists in Israel.
Similarly, Wahhaj preached a philosophy of exploiting American democracy to further conquer Islam. In 1991, according to A videotape of the event, Wahhaj told the Muslim gathering: “I want to say this. Brothers and sisters, you must participate in politics everywhere in the world. If you participate in politics everywhere. You are involved in politics because politics can be a weapon to use for the cause of Islam.”
Frank Pellegrino, a retired FBI Agent, who investigated the 1993 attacks on the world’s institutions. (Frank Pellegrino)
In 2011, he made a pilgrimage he pleaded Muslims contributed to the legal defense of Aafia Siddiqui, a neuroscientist called “Lady Al Qaeda” for trying to kill US forces in Afghanistan.
“I think he’s innocent,” he told a Worcester, Massachusetts, fundraiser. “There is a reasonable doubt, and by law, if there is a reasonable doubt, you have to get out.”
Siddiqui, who served as an agent for Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, the MasterMind of the 2001 Attack on the World Trade Center, is serving an 86-year sentence in a Texas Federal prison for attempted murder and several other felonies.
In a 1992 speech, he prayed trust him That if American Muslims were united, “we would not vote for a tree or Clinton … We would choose to be loyal to him.”
After three years, he shared his views in the US, to say“You know what this country is? It’s trash. Dirty. Dirty and sick.”
Former US Navy Lt. Dr. Zut. Dr. ZASSER Jasser saw an important speech about wahhaj in the year 1995 at the Muslim conference in North America, where the Imam held the Qur’an and announced his desire to replace the US constitution with Islamic law.
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“There is nothing more clear about the Islamist extremism and in the words of Zohran Mamdani than his friendship with Anti-Antimers Jihadi Imam Siraj wahhaj,” now the President of the American Islamic Forum on democracy. “Fealk of Mamdani to one of America’s most Radicatical teachers to tell you everything you need to know.”
The convert, wahhaj, 75, rose to prominence as a bridge between immigrant Muslim leaders and black American Muslim converts. He has a decorated portfolio of Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated groups, including a soupçon of organizations that look after Brotherhood-style groups: the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), and the Muslim Society of America (MAS).
In 2003, he I said A street-to-wall magazine ruled by a Society with strict Islamic law, where adulterers are stoned and thieves’ hands are cut off, “would be superior to American democracy.”
Speaking, wahhaj removed The US government “controlled by Shaitan,” the Arabic word for the Devil, urged Muslims not to be friendly, “blamed homosexuality as ‘diseases of that society,’ and supported the laws of that sex and 100 lashes. He accused Muslims of knowing Muslims, saying, “Woe to Muslims who choose kafirs,” or Muslims, “for friends.”
New York City Democratic Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks to supporters at the Canvass launch event in Respect Park on Sunday, Aug 17, 2025. (Deirdre Heavey / fox news digital)
Wahhaj even ordered Muslims to refrain from making friends with their children without faith.
“Don’t you know our children are surrounded by coffee?” he said. “I’m telling you, it makes our children’s hearts corrupt, dirty, dirty. He’s just making it clear, because of what he’s doing, because our hearts will be corrupted.”
His personal life is also in the limelight. In 2018, three wahhaj children were present It is tied up After the authorities found 11 malnourished children living in a new part of Mexico where one of his grandchildren died during the experiment.
The acceptance of this figure has been debated by the suffering of Mamdani and the tolerance of the democratic party for organizations with positive difficulties. Wahhaj remains a respected figure among other Muslim activists, including Linda Sarseou, who in 2017 called him a “mentor” and a “FREE MEMO IN THE WORLD.” Your Sarseo left the women’s march, which he called off, amid accusations of antisemitism. He has led many anti-Israel marches since the Oct. 7 Attack, the leading events to seek Israel “from the river.”
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For reform-minded Muslims, however, the image of the rising tide of Americans celebrating Wahhaj carries ominous omens.
“It sends the wrong message to moderate Muslims who are working hard to completely divide the faith,” Ziada said. “And it tells the wider American public that the people who want to lead this country have forgotten what a promising idea they once had ORTYIDLY SKIRY.”
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