Who do you want to win the big NYC mayor election?

[lester1/2jr]

Mamdani is a big rising star in the Democratic party. Cuomo is not a big rising star, but does have some relatively conservative support. Curtis Sliwa is someone some of us older members may remember from old school NYC re: his work with the Guardian Angels.

My father lives in Brooklyn, NYC. He never votes (long story: hates the govt and jury duty) but said if he did he would vote for Sliwa because he wants to make the subways safe.

[lester1/2jr]

Well, he is very progressive, like many New Yorkers. Superficially, he is the most obvious choice, so no surprise he is doing well in all the polls.

[ER]

After 9/11, the last thing NYC needs is a person of the Islamic faith for a mayor. 😔

You're absolutely right, and especially not a man who has repeatedly refused to denounce the intifada, and who has associated himself with figures whose ideology contains a genocidal agenda. I'd have few worries about a politician of almost any other faith, but history has proven Islam to be a force that's incompatible with any non-Mohammadean civilization.

I've had good times in New York but wouldn't want to live there, so my opinion doesn't exactly count for much.

[claws]

After 9/11, the last thing NYC needs is a person of the Islamic faith for a mayor. 😔

When a convicted criminal like Trump can still be elected president, it utterly proves that the rules are out the window. I believe it won't make a difference who the next Mayor of NYC is.

[RCMerchant]

After 9/11, the last thing NYC needs is a person of the Islamic faith for a mayor. 😔

You're absolutely right, and especially not a man who has repeatedly refused to denounce the intifada, and who has associated himself with figures whose ideology contains a genocidal agenda. I'd have few worries about a politician of almost any other faith, but history has proven Islam to be a force that's incompatible with any non-Mohammadean civilization.

I've had good times in New York but wouldn't want to live there, so my opinion doesn't exactly count for much.

That was over almost 25 years ago. Radical Islamic terrorists. Not Islam itself. You may remember the Spanish Inquistion and the Crusades and witch burning was all done by Christians. To blame a religion of some madmen on the whole is stupid and bigoted.