Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett said Monday that Democratic New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani did not mention that the men accused of throwing an improvised explosive device at protesters Saturday were inspired by a terrorist group.
Officers from the New York Police Department took 19-year-old Ibraham Kayumi and 18-year-old Emir Balat into custody Saturday after they threw a device with the explosive compound Triacetone Triperoxide (TATP) at a protest led by independent journalist Jake Lang. Jarrett noted that while Mamdani claimed Lang was a “white supremacist” and that his event was “rooted in bigotry and racism,” he didn’t mention the actual attackers. (RELATED: US Mosque Honors Ayatollah Khamenei, Trashes America Days After Iran War Began)
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“It’s so striking that Mandani immediately calls out, by name, the man who organized the protest over public Muslim prayer and denounced him as a white supremacist, yet the mayor would not describe the suspects who attempted to bomb the protest and kill people,” Jarrett told “Fox and Friends” co-host Brian Kilmeade. “You know, there’s a, there’s a big difference between a peaceful protester and suspected jihadists who tried to kill innocent people and, and so that is selective outrage, and of course it comes on the heels of the discovery that Mamdani’s wife liked numerous Instagram posts celebrating the October 7th Hamas attack in Israel.”
Mamdani’s wife, Rama Duwaji, liked dozens of social media posts celebrating and justifying the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel carried out by the radical Islamic terrorist group Hamas. The two men arrested were reportedly inspired by the radical Islamic terrorist group the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
Video of the incident appears to show Balat shouting “Allahu akbar” as he threw the IED.
Additional footage posted on X by Fox News reporter CB Cotton showed Lang being barred from Mamdani’s Monday press conference by NYPD officers.
Video taken by Daily Caller News Foundation reporter Jorge Ventura on Jan. 17 showed left-wing rioters attacking a counter-protester, who attended a Minneapolis event sponsored by Lang to protest welfare fraud perpetrated by Somali migrants in Minnesota that federal officials estimated to have cost taxpayers at least $9 billion.
The FBI executed search warrants on the homes of Balat and Kayumi Sunday after the suspects reportedly told police they watched ISIS videos online. Corporate media outlets claimed that the protest Lang led was “anti-Islam,” “anti-Muslim” or “Islamophobic.”
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