Anti-Muslim Hatred Surging on the Far-Right

Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) referred to Zohran Mamdani as“little muhammad” in a racist tweet and called for his deportation. 

GPAHE: Zohran Mamdani’s recent victory in the New York City mayoral Democratic primary is serving as a flashpoint for anti-Muslim bigotry from the far right. Almost immediately after the election, Mamdani, an Indian-Muslim born in Uganda who became a citizen in 2018, faced calls for deportation, along with a slew of Islamophobic rhetoric rooted in baseless conspiracies about Muslims.

Muslims are routinely and ruthlessly profiled by racists, painting them as national security threats, terrorists, and aiming to undermine American sovereignty. This recent surge of hateful rhetoric is just the latest in American post-9/11 Islamophobia which had deadly consequences for anyone perceived to be a Muslim. That included Balbir Singh Sodi, a Sikh man, who was murdered days after 9/11 by a racist looking to “go out and shoot some towel-heads.”

Mamdani reported facing racism from political opponents and received bomb threats, which are being investigated by the NYPD, during his campaign. After winning the Democratic mayoral primaries on June 24, he faced a tidal wave of bigotry from the far right. Many of these attacks based their hatred of Mamdani on a belief in the racist “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory, which falsely purports that “elites,” often Jews, are plotting to “replace” the “native” European populations of countries with non-white immigrants. Many called for his deportation. 

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