National “Public” Radio can NOT find the story of New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s wife Rama Duwaji putting “Likes” on pages celebrating the October 7 massacre in Israel. But it CAN find stories where Mamdani is the victim of cruel Republican social media posts. GOP ‘Islamophobia’ is hot news, and Muslim Democrat antisemitism is not.
Reporter Brian Mann’s online article was splashed on NPR’s home page with this headline:
NYC’s Mamdani condemns Sen. Tuberville’s anti-Muslim posts as ‘bigotry’
It began:
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is condemning a series of anti-Muslim social media posts by Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama as “bigotry.”
On X, Tuberville reposted an image of Mamdani next to a photo of the deadly 9/11 terror attacks in New York City, along with the words “the enemy is inside the gates.”
Mamdani, the city’s first Muslim mayor, has been the subject of repeated verbal attacks during the Ramadan season now underway.
Tuberville’s second image was Mamdani hosting the first official Ramadan iftar at City Hall. NPR, normally so hostile to the mingling of church and state, makes an exception for socialist Muslims. On Wednesday, the NPR talk show 1A devoted a whole hour to “Christian nationalism” and how “concerns grow over the crumbling of the separation between church and state in the Trump administration’s military.”
Mamdani also hosted an iftar dinner on March 8 for Hamas-backing Mahmoud Khalil, who drew a laudatory victim profile on NPR this week. Khalil’s protest group at Columbia University not only backed the October 7 slaughter like Mrs. Mamdani, they boasted online that “We are Westerners fighting for the total eradication of Western civilization.” They suggest oppressed territories of the world include Hawaii, Guam, and Puerto Rico. Most Americans would consider that an “enemy” statement.
On March 12, a Washington Free Beacon article by Jon Levine had a new scandal, that Mamdani’s wife “provided a featured illustration for an essay by an author who called Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack ‘spectacular,’ has frequently decried what she describes as ‘Jewish supremacist vampires, and said Jewish Israelis are ‘rootless soulless ghouls.'”
NPR couldn’t find that, but Mann platformed Mamdani’s lecture on tolerance:
“When I hear such hatred and disdain unchecked in its rancor, I feel a loneliness and isolation that I know many of you have felt as well,” Mamdani said. “Who here has been told, you do not belong in New York City? Who here has been told, go back where you came from?”
On Thursday, Tuberville also claimed falsely that “Americans are being gunned down in the streets almost daily by Radical Islamists.”
Experts say attacks in the U.S. by Muslim extremists are rare and are “not resurgent,” according to a 2025 study by the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Republican leaders have been largely silent about Tuberville’s anti-Muslim posts. A growing number of Democrats, meanwhile, have condemned his statements. New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, the Democratic minority leader, described Tuberville’s posts as “mindless hate.”
Can you believe that? We don’t have daily shootings by radical Islamists. But in a week filled with violent attacks by radical Muslims — in Virginia, Michigan, and outside Mamdani’s mansion in New York — NPR is going to say attacks are RARE?
Even then, NPR “domestic extremism correspondent” Odette Yousef and host Scott Detrow never breathed the word “Muslim” in a March 13 evening roundup of the Muslim violence. The next morning, Yousef did it again — the assailant in Michigan was a “naturalized Lebanese American citizen,” and host Scott Simon only used the M-word to refer to “an attempted attack on anti-Muslim protesters in New York.”
In addition to Mann’s article on Sen. Tuberville, NPR has been on a streak of GOP “Islamophobia” stories, leaping off Rep. Andy Ogles tweeting about Muslims being incompatible with America.
March 9: Tennessee GOP Rep says Muslims ‘don’t belong in American society’
March 11: What role do politics play in increased anti-Muslim rhetoric?
March 13: Muslim voters react to Rep. Andy Ogles’ comments that they ‘don’t belong’
March 13: Unlike past eras, anti-Muslim GOP rhetoric draws little pushback from party leaders
March 14: House GOP leadership silent as more members post anti-Muslim statements
This whole trend is revealing, since vicious antisemitism among Muslim politicians, from Mamdani to Omar to Tlaib, “draws little pushback” from so-called “public radio” journalists.
