Zohran Mamdani, the radical Muslim socialist running for New York City mayor is twisting religion to manipulate voters into supporting him. Multiple recent posts portrayed purported Christian (and Jewish) leaders affirming Mamdani, but any Christian supporting a socialist like Mamdani has no business being in spiritual leadership.
Mamdani wants you to believe Jews and Christians love him. Jews for Racial & Economic Justice, a far-left political advocacy group that does not represent all Jews, has been shilling for Mamdani on social media, posting a video this week with three female rabbis and a dude with hot-pink lipstick, all wearing Mamdani T-shirts, speaking to fellow Jews.
“As Jews, as rabbis, as New Yorkers, we believe that all people deserve to thrive,” says the pink-lipped drag rabbi.
Another X post this week showed Mamdani surrounded — in a semicircle so the camera has a clear shot — by black clergy laying hands on the candidate and praying for him in the name of Jesus.
“We thank you, Lord, for the victory. We thank you, Lord, for the ability to govern well,” a pastor prayed while people leaned in with phones and cameras to capture video and photos of this staged prayer.
How soon until the Amish and Mennonite videos drop?
Not only are these pastors not speaking for all Christians, but they should not be leading or speaking for any Christians. You can’t support a socialist and call yourself a Christian. Consider the Ten Commandments.
Mamdani proposes taxing white neighborhoods at a high rate and says billionaires should not exist. His racist plan is an ideal of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). Christian pastors should recognize the platform as an affront to the Eighth Commandment, “Thou shalt not steal,” and the Tenth Commandment, “Thou shalt not covet.”
Mamdani loves abortion and considers pro-lifers extreme. Biblical pastors will recognize abortion as a violation of the Sixth Commandment, “Thou shalt not kill.”
The so-called pastors who laid hands on Mamdani for the cameras surely know that if your prayer is a staged, political photo op, it puts the candidate above God and that breaks the First Commandment: “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.”
The DSA, America’s largest socialist organization, has attacked the traditional family, “called marriage and sex work ‘two sides of the same coin’ and proclaimed abortions should be done in churches” at their annual conference, according to the New York Post. Christian leaders should be loudly rebuking anyone attached to such rhetoric and assuring their flocks do not support DSA candidates like Mamdani.
Matthew 7:15-20 warns, “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Therefore by their fruits you will know them.”
Mamdani passed one piece of legislation this year as a New York assemblyman — and he wasn’t even there for the vote. Poor fruit there. He has largely just gathered a paycheck. His proposals are like the sheep: free buses, free housing, city-run grocery stores, tax the whites, close the prisons, defund the police. The consequences are like the wolves: economic collapse as workers and businesses leave the city; increased crime and poverty; policies that promote the killing of unborn children. Pastors whose poor judgment leads them to embrace socialist wolves in sheep’s clothing demonstrate they should no longer be pastors.
Beth Brelje is an elections correspondent for The Federalist. She is an award-winning investigative journalist with decades of media experience.
