On Sunday’s The Weekend Primetime, MSNBC’s Ayman Mohyeldin suggested that Mamdani was being unfairly targeted by critics on the right because of his Muslim faith and his cultural identity. “There is a double standard,” he said, nodding to Mamdani’s supposed persecution and labeling criticism of the assemblyman as “vulgar” and “ugly.”
Leave it up to an MSNBCer to make an accusation and hide behind not backing it up. Mohyeldin hinted at that Islamophobia was what drove the criticism of Mamdani, he even suggested he a had a bunch of evidence but didn’t want to go into it:
I do think, and I'm speaking here for myself, as somebody who has observed him over the course of the last several months, there is a double standard that is being applied to him that is not being applied to other politicians. And it's for obvious reasons, not just because of his politics on what has happened overseas in Gaza, but the way he has stood up and defended certain principles around free speech in this city, but also because of what his faith is, what his identity is. And those are central to him. And I think that's new to many people in this country. And we're seeing that being weaponized in a very ugly and vulgar way. I think that double standard needs to be questioned. We don't ask other politicians the same questions that we're asking him. I can give you a lot of examples, but I won't go on– into that.
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