I’ll lay out the key facts about Zohran Mamdani’s troubling associations, show how those ties extend to his father, preserve the direct quotes and claims, place the original embed tokens where they belonged, and present a clear Republican perspective on what this means for New York City voters.
Zohran Mamdani has raced to the front of the NYC mayoral field while questions pile up about who he surrounds himself with and what he tolerates. Voters deserve to know whether the likely next mayor embraces allies who openly oppose basic liberties for LGBT Americans. These are not abstract connections; they include international figures and domestic associates with troubling records.
Two weeks ago reporting tied Mamdani to Ugandan politician Rebecca Kadaga, who championed legislation that would imprison gay Ugandans for life. Mamdani denied knowing who Kadaga was, but follow-up reporting showed direct ties between Kadaga and Mamdani’s family. That kind of defensive distancing doesn’t erase the reality of the association or the optics for LGBT New Yorkers.
This week brought another unsettling example: Mamdani has social connections with an unindicted co-conspirator from the 1993 World Trade Center bombing who publicly called homosexuality a “disease of this society.” Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it’s enemy action. Three separate ties to anti-LGBTQ figures paint a pattern worth scrutiny from anyone who cares about civil rights and public safety.
There’s a more personal angle now: Mamdani’s father, Mahmood Mamdani, has been accused of trying to silence a pro-LGBTQ academic at Makerere University in Uganda by padlocking her office, withholding her pay and pushing her out of the department.
New York City mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani’s father has been accused of trying to silence an LGBTQ professor in Uganda by padlocking her office, withholding her pay and pushing her out of his department at Makerere University, The Post has learned.
Mahmood Mamdani, 79, blocked Stella Nyanzi, 51, from teaching a course in “Queer African Studies” at the Makerere Institute of Social Research in April 2016, Nyanzi claimed to The Post Thursday.
The elder Mamdani, a professor in the department of anthropology at Columbia University in New York, was also director of the institute in Kampala between 2010 and 2022.
In protest of the elder Mamdani, Nyanzi stripped naked, taped her mouth shut, and chained herself to the university doors. She remained defiant of Mamdani, saying, “Regarding Prof. Mahmood Mamdani, I did not make it easy for him to taunt, torture and terrorize me.” Nyanzi also reported severe reprisals for her protest, saying she was “subjected to detention without trial, trumped-up charges, being put on a no-fly list, having her bank account frozen and an involuntary mental exam due to her protest against the university and the government.”
Zohran Mamdani has publicly said he opposes the NYPD because they are “anti-queer.” That line is striking when stacked against the record of his allies and his father’s alleged actions. The NYPD has not called for jailing gays for life, or labeled them a disease, or tried to silence a professor over queer studies, yet Mamdani directs his ire at local law enforcement while cozying up to figures who have.
From a Republican viewpoint, leaders must put the safety and rights of New Yorkers first, not prioritize ideological allies with records of hostility toward LGBT people. Mamdani’s pattern—distance when called out, ties to anti-LGBTQ actors, and a family incident that reads like direct suppression of academic freedom—raises a clear competence and values question for voters. This is about who will defend equal treatment and keep neighborhoods safe.
Editor’s Note: The Schumer Shutdown is here. Rather than put the American people first, Chuck Schumer and the radical Democrats forced a government shutdown for healthcare for illegals. They own this.
