Just days after his historic win as New York City’s first Muslim mayor-elect, Zohran Mamdani flew to Puerto Rico for the annual SOMOS political conference. His visit to a local mosque in San Juan, however, sparked backlash after reports linked the mosque to Hamas sympathisers and an imam who allegedly called the Oct. 7 attacks a “silver lining.” Republican Congressman Mike Lawler slammed Mamdani’s trip as “elitist,” while Democrats defended it as standard political engagement and part of his community outreach efforts.
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