Analysis: Zohran Mamdani – Islam’s smiling NY face

Who is Zohran Mamdani, the political outsider who has just become Mayor of New York? And should evangelicals be relaxed, concerned, or even alarmed?

Plenty of people have indeed expressed worry. Mike Johnson, the evangelical Southern Baptist speaker of the House of Representatives, described his victory as “without a doubt the biggest win for socialism in the history of the country, and it is the biggest loss for the American people.”

Meanwhile Florida pastor Tom Ascol compared Mamdani’s election triumph to the fall of Rome to the Visigoths in 410AD. And writer and podcaster Virgil Walker claimed Mamdani is a “Muslim Jihadist”.