Texas Man Is Charged With Making Threats Against Mamdani

[Nanjeanne]

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/nyregion/zohran-mamdani-threat-nyc-mayor.html]

A Texas man was charged on Thursday with threatening Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for New York City mayor, sending him messages filled with anti-Muslim insults calling him a terrorist and warning him not to start his car, suggesting that it would explode.

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Prosecutors said that in June, Mr. Mamdani’s campaign reported that he received a string of vitriolic voice mail messages at his district office in Queens. On June 11, a man called and said Mr. Mamdani, who would be New York City’s first Muslim mayor if elected, should go back to Uganda before someone shot him in the head. The caller also said “Muslims don’t belong here.”

In another voice mail, left on June 18, the same man called Mr. Mamdani a “terrorist” who was “not welcome in New York or in America.”

“Go on and start your car. See what happens,” the caller said, then used expletives as he told him to “watch your back every second till you get out of America.”

Prosecutors said that Mr. Fistel also sent hateful messages through Mr. Mamdani’s State Assembly website. One said, “I’d love to see an IDF bullet go through your skull,” an apparent reference to the Israel Defense Forces.

Sounds like what you hear about Mamdani from many Republicansdiscourse”, right.

Meanwhile in Democratic Party - Hakeem Jeffries voted for Charlie Kirk Day but still isn’t sure if he’ll endorse Zohran Mamdani.