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Mamdani faces a Muslim problem ahead of Gracie Mansion protest
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Mayor Zohran Mamdani is facing a Muslim problem with local Muslim activists planning to spill into the streets Tuesday night outside Gracie Mansion, where protesters will accuse the mayor of promoting what they describe as an extreme form of Islamism.
Meanwhile, Mamdani, New York City’s first Muslim mayor, is also facing criticism from hardline anti-Israel activists who argue he has not gone far enough in support of Palestinian activism after taking office.
Anila Ali, president of the American Muslim & Multifaith Women’s Empowerment Council, said she plans to join Tuesday night’s protest because she believes Mamdani’s politics are alienating moderate Muslims and damaging relations between Muslim and Jewish communities in New York.
«With Mamdani in office, we feel our religion is now hijacked once again and is being used by these Islamists,» Ali told Fox News Digital in a video interview.
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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Anila Ali, president of the American Muslim & Multifaith Women’s Empowerment Council. Ali is among the organizers of a planned protest outside Gracie Mansion criticizing Mamdani over what demonstrators describe as extremist and divisive politics. Mamdani has also faced criticism from hardline anti-Israel activists who argue he has not gone far enough in support of Palestinian activism. (Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images; right photo courtesy of Anila Ali.)
Ali described herself as part of a post-9/11 movement of «moderate Muslims» who reject Islamist extremism and believe Islam is compatible with coexistence, religious freedom and life in America.
She described Islamism as a hardline political ideology that merges religion and politics, and she argued Mamdani represents a more radical version of Islam than the moderate faith practiced by many American Muslims.
She said moderate Muslims don’t identify with Islamist groups such as the Council on American Islamic Affairs (CAIR), which she accused of monopolizing public representation of Islam in America and promoting a hardline Islamist movement. Ali said many moderate Muslims feel increasingly sidelined by activist groups and political organizations they believe do not represent their faith or values.
«Zohran Mamdani is their success story. The Muslim Brotherhood, they backed him,» Ali told Fox News Digital in a video interview.
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However, criticism of Mamdani is not only coming from moderate Muslim and interfaith activists. Hardline anti-Israel activists have also criticized the mayor for not going far enough in support of Palestinian activism after taking office.
«When he said that Israel has the right to exist, I also clearly called that out,» anti-Israel activist Nerdeen Kiswani, a Palestinian-American activist, told Fox News Digital last week. Kiswani is the co-founder of the pro-Palestinian group Within Our Lifetime, which staged a Nakba rally in New York on May 15 where demonstrators chanted «globalize the intifada.»
Kiswani also criticized Mamdani for what she described as walking back his earlier defense of the phrase «globalize the intifada» and softening his stance on Palestinian activism after taking office.
«I don’t think he or any politician is doing enough in support of Palestinian liberation,» Kiswani said.
The divide has turned Mamdani into a local flashpoint in a broader political battle playing out across the United States, where anti-Israel activism, Islamist movements and far-left groups have increasingly merged into overlapping protest coalitions.
Ali said Mamdani’s support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel, his comments surrounding Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state and his defense of slogans such as «globalize the intifada» have alienated many moderate Muslims and worsened tensions between Muslims and Jews in New York.
Within Our Lifetime co-founder Nerdeen Kiswani speaks during a «Nakba 78» anti-Israel protest in Washington Square Park on May 15, 2026, in New York City, as demonstrators carrying Palestinian flags and Hamas flags gather behind her. (Asra Q. Nomani/Fox News Digital)
«They start with the Jewish people — that’s not where they’re going to end,» Ali said.
«But more importantly, what he’s done is he’s damaged interfaith relations. He’s damaged the image of Islam.»
Ali said that Mamdani still retains strong support from progressive and pro-Palestinian activist groups that helped fuel his political rise.
Tuesday’s protest outside Gracie Mansion, Ali said, is intended to show Muslims, Jews and Christians standing together against what she described as extremist Islamist politics masquerading as mainstream Islam.
«[Mamdani] starts teaching our kids, Muslim kids and American kids, Islamism 101,» Ali said, referring to what she described as efforts to normalize Islamist political ideology through activism and identity politics.
Pro-Palestinians gather at a ‘Stop the Sale of Stolen Palestinian Land’ protest against a ‘Great Israel Real Estate’ event at the Park East Synagogue in Manhattan on May 5, 2026. The NYPD increased security and established a perimeter around the synagogue on E. 67th and E. 68th Streets in New York City. (Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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Ali also described Mamdani’s politics as part of a «red-green alliance» between Islamist activists and the far left.
She warned New York risks following the path of British cities such as Bradford, Birmingham and Manchester, which she described as overtaken by extremism and division. The cities have long been at the center of debates in the United Kingdom over immigration, Islamist extremism, segregation and multiculturalism.
«The radical Islamism, it’s just unbearable to see what’s happened to the UK,» she said.
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The protest is being organized by End Jew Hatred alongside a coalition of Muslim, Jewish and Christian groups, including the American Muslim & Multifaith Women’s Empowerment Council and the Catholic League.
CAIR acknowledged Fox News Digital’s request for comment. Mamdani’s office did not immediately respond.
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Top takeaways from the primary elections in Maine and South Carolina: ‘Movement about us’
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BLUE HILL, Maine – Graham Platner, the progressive left, and Donald Trump appear to be the big winners in Tuesday’s high-profile primaries in Maine and South Carolina.
Platner, the oyster farmer and military combat veteran who has been facing plenty of incoming fire amid mounting controversies, cruised to the Democratic nomination Tuesday in left-leaning Maine and will now face longtime moderate Republican Sen. Susan Collins in a key race that is among a handful which will likely determine if Republicans hold their Senate majority in the midterm elections.
Meanwhile, in solidly red South Carolina, Trump-backed Sen. Lindsey Graham won a majority of the vote in the Senate GOP primary and will avoid a runoff against a primary challenger from the right.
And the candidate the president endorsed in the state’s Republican gubernatorial primary, Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette, finished on top of a crowded field of contenders and will advance to a runoff election in two weeks against longtime South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson, who came in second.
Here’s what we learned in the key June 9th primaries.
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Graham Platner and his wife wave on stage to supporters after winning the Democratic Senate primary in Maine, on June 9, 2026 in Blue Hill, Maine (Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)
The left storms back
The convincing victory by Platner, who was backed by progressive champions Sens. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, and Rep. Ro Khanna of California, looks to be another feather in the cap for the left in their intra-party face-off with the establishment.
The primary in Maine was held a week after Iowa state Rep. John Turek, who was supported by longtime Senate Democratic Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer, won the Democratic Senate primary and will face Republican Rep. Ashley Hinson in another crucial midterm showdown.
Turek, a wheelchair basketball player who won two Paralympic gold medals, defeated the more progressive candidate, state Sen. Zach Wahls. The divisive and expensive primary battle was viewed as a proxy war between the establishment and anti-establishment wings of the party.
Fast-forward a week and the ballot box performance by Platner, who promotes an economically populist agenda as he takes aim at corporate influences and advocates for the working class, gives a boost to the left.
«The Democratic establishment and powerful interests spent months trying to stop Graham Platner. Instead, they demonstrated that voters in Maine and across America want to elect shake-up-the-system outsiders,» Progressive Change Campaign Committee co-founder Adam Green emphasized.
And Green warned that Platner’s victory «should be a wake-up call for a Democratic establishment that has spent too long underestimating the appeal of economic populism and outsider politics.»
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Sen. Bernie Sanders and Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner stand together during a «Fighting Oligarchy» tour stop at the Collins Center for the Arts on the University of Maine campus in Orono, Maine, on May 24, 2026. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
What controversies?
Platner in recent weeks has been facing one of the roughest stretches of his bid for the U.S. Senate.
The candidate has been playing defense the past month, amid multiple controversies. They include inflammatory online comments made on Reddit, a well-publicized and now covered-up tattoo on his chest that resembled a Nazi symbol, recent reports that he exchanged sexually explicit messages with several women while married, and new allegations last week from ex-girlfriends of a history of rape fantasies, heavy drinking and violent episodes. Platner has called the latest allegations of violence untrue.
On Monday, a day before the primary election, a former high-level staffer from the Platner campaign wrote in the Washington Post that Platner «is not someone who would be good for Maine or for the country.»
While the mounting controversies triggered some Democrats in the nation’s capital to question whether Platner was damaged goods and needed to be replaced, the candidate this past weekend thanked Maine voters for continuing to support him.
«When hurtful things I said on the internet a decade ago came out into the public as I shared my personal journey through PTSD and darkness of recovery and accountability and growth. Maine had my back,» Platner said at a rally Friday not far from his hometown in Down East Maine. «Now, as every single piece of that past and journey gets dug up, litigated, and weaponized, you have my back. And when politically motivated, serious and false accusations are made against me. Maine, you have my back.»
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Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner and his wife greet supporters after he won his party’s nomination, at his victory celebration in Blue Hill, Maine on June 9, 2026. (Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)
And voters in Maine’s Democratic Senate primary seemed to shrug off the controversies.
«In trying so hard to understand me, they failed to understand that this is not about me at all,» Platner said in his victory speech as he dismissed news reports about his past misdeeds as immaterial to the Senate election.
«This is a movement about us, about the far too many working far too hard and struggling far too much.»
Trump has a big night
The president wasn’t on the ballot in South Carolina, but he had plenty on the line in the GOP Senate and gubernatorial primaries.
One week after Trump’s endorsement-winning streak in high-profile Republican primaries was snapped, the president’s immense clout over the GOP was on the line again, this time in South Carolina.
And the president easily passed the test.
The candidate Trump endorsed in the Palmetto State’s GOP gubernatorial primary, Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette, finished first in a crowded field of candidates and clinched one of the two tickets in the race for the nomination.
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Evette, who repeatedly spotlighted Trump’s support, now advances to a Republican runoff election in two weeks against South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson, the second place finisher, in the race to succeed term-limited GOP Gov. Henry McMaster.
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, and Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette stand on stage during an election night watch party at the State Fairgrounds in Columbia, S.C., on Feb. 24, 2024. Trump defeated Nikki Haley in the South Carolina Republican primary. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Since no candidate topped 50% of the primary vote to land a majority, Evette and Wilson will battle for the nomination in the June 23 runoff, and the winner will be considered the clear favorite in the general election in the solidly red southeastern state.
Meanwhile, in the South Carolina GOP Senate primary, longtime Trump ally Sen. Lindsey Graham did win a majority of the vote, and will avoid a runoff, the Associated Press reported.
Graham, who was endorsed by Trump, was facing primary challenges from five candidates, including conservative businessman Mark Lynch, who took aim at the senator over his support for the war in Iran. Lynch was backed by some MAGA leaders who have been critical of the president.
Graham’s campaign and allied political groups spent nearly $20 million to highlight Trump’s support. And the president joined Graham and Evette for a primary eve tele-rally.
The brute force of the president’s endorsement power has been on display in GOP primaries over the past month, with his candidates ousting incumbents he targeted in showdowns in Indiana, Louisiana, Kentucky and Texas that grabbed plenty of national attention.
But his 11th-hour endorsement of Republican Rep. Randy Feenstra of Iowa a week and a half ago — which came on the same day he also backed Evette — in the race to succeed retiring GOP Gov. Kim Reynolds wasn’t enough to muscle the three-term congressman to victory.
Feenstra was narrowly edged by Zach Lahn, a businessman, farmer and former political strategist who was backed by the political wings of MAHA — the acronym for the Make America Healthy Again movement aligned with Trump Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — and Turning Point USA, the powerful conservative organization co-founded by the late Charlie Kirk.
In the South Carolina GOP gubernatorial primary, the major contenders had long been highlighting their support for Trump and his agenda, in hopes of landing his support.
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Trump, after staying neutral for months, endorsed Evette, praising her as an «America First Patriot» and a «WINNER» in his announcement.
In her primary night speech, Evette thanks the president and touted that she’s a «Trump-endorsed businesswoman and conservative who’s going to take the fight to the radical left.»
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Tormenta tropical Cristina avanza hacia El Salvador con lluvias intensas y riesgo de inundaciones
La tormenta tropical Cristina avanza este martes hacia El Salvador y se ubica a 195 kilómetros al sureste de San Salvador, con vientos sostenidos de 65 km/h, mientras el Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (MARN) informó que el sistema comenzará a influir de manera directa sobre el territorio nacional durante la madrugada del miércoles.
Según el MARN, el fenómeno se desplazará paralelo a la costa y podría tocar tierra en la franja central del país, entre sectores como La Libertad y La Paz, antes de degradarse a depresión tropical mientras avance sobre territorio salvadoreño. La amenaza no quedó limitada al litoral, sino que se extendió a todo el país con mayor énfasis en la cordillera volcánica y la zona costera a partir del jueves.
La institución informó que desde la tarde ya se registraron lluvias y tormentas intensas en la zona montañosa del norte y en el occidente del país. Durante la noche y las primeras horas del jueves, Cristina se situará al sur de la costa oriental, lo que incrementará la probabilidad de precipitaciones en la franja central.
La cartera estatal advirtió que las lluvias serán más intensas e intermitentes desde el jueves en distintas regiones del país.
Marn sostuvo que las condiciones de esta noche de martes mantendrán una distribución de lluvias que volverá a moverse hacia la zona occidental y algunos puntos de la zona central, incluido el departamento de La Libertad y el departamento de San Salvador. La previsión oficial no descartó precipitaciones en el área metropolitana de la capital ni en zonas costeras por el ingreso de bandas nubosas asociadas a la circulación ciclónica.
Cristina provocó lluvias intensas en varias regiones de El Salvador y el Gobierno advirtió que su influencia directa comenzará de madrugada. La consecuencia inmediata, según el MARN, será un aumento del riesgo de inundaciones, crecidas súbitas y deslizamientos en buena parte del país.
De acuerdo con el MARN, la situación meteorológica podría ocasionar inundaciones urbanas, desbordamiento de ríos, crecidas repentinas, deslizamientos y caída de rocas. Las autoridades también alertaron sobre caída de árboles por los vientos y por la saturación del suelo.
El ministerio recomendó a la población que vive en zonas de alto riesgo seguir las indicaciones de la Dirección General de Protección Civil. La advertencia incluyó a las comunidades expuestas tanto por acumulación de lluvias como por el deterioro de las condiciones del terreno.
La entidad también señaló que el fenómeno generó oleaje más rápido y alto en todo el territorio nacional. Ese cambio elevó el riesgo de inundaciones en la parte alta de las playas y aumentó la velocidad de las corrientes de retorno.
El aviso oficial pidió precaución a quienes residen en zonas costeras o tengan previsto visitar las playas en los próximos días. El MARN informó que emitirá actualizaciones cada seis horas a través de sus canales oficiales.
Según el informe especial del MARN, la amenaza afecta principalmente la cordillera de Apaneca, los complejos volcánicos de Santa Ana-Coatepeque, San Salvador y Berlín-Tecapa, así como los volcanes Chingo, San Vicente, San Miguel y Conchagua. Los pronósticos advierten que las condiciones meteorológicas previstas para los próximos días pueden intensificar la saturación de los suelos, lo que favorecería la generación de flujos de escombros y deslizamientos de tierra.
El riesgo también se extiende a la caída de rocas y bloqueos en caminos y carreteras de la región, especialmente en áreas cercanas a laderas, taludes y zonas montañosas de El Bálsamo, Jucuarán y la franja montañosa de la frontera norte, desde Santa Ana hasta La Unión.
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