The candidate for the socialist mayor of New York visits the church led by a controversial pastor

First on Fox: The candidate for the socialist town hall of New York, Zohran Mamdani, appeared in a church during the weekend led by a pastor with a history of controversial declarations on the breed, anti-Israeli links and support for repairs.

“My deep thank you to the Reverend Stephen A. Green and the Grand Allen Ame for the honor of addressing their beautiful congregation in Jamaica, Queens this morning”, Mamdani Posted on X Late Sunday.

Mamdani spoke to the church for more than 10 minutes and pronounced a politically loaded sermon who woven in the scriptures to try to justify his campaign platform. Towards the end of his sermon, Mamdani said New York and the United States faced a “dark moment”. He then described the Trump administration as “authoritarian government” and criticized the ice for “kidnapped (ING)” immigrants “.

“It is not justice. It is cruelty and it is criminal. They are our neighbors. These are people who are guilty of wanting only their own field to harvest,” he continued.

The New York legislator seems alarm on the potential “devastating” effects of Mamdani’s victory: “chaos”

The candidate for the socialist town hall of New York, Zohran Mamdani, said a sermon politically loaded on Sunday at the church of the Grand Allen Ame of the Reverend Stephen A. Green. (The Facebook screenshot of the New York Greater Allen cathedral)

He then targeted the question of affordability in New York, a problem that resonated with his supporters, and asked: “What is New York the largest city in the world if New Yorkers cannot afford to live here?”

Green, who called Mamdani his “brother and friend”, said on several occasions “Amen” after the sermon and thanked him for participating. Like Mamdani, who has married several controversial political opinions, Green is no stranger to pushing his radical opinions on social networks. In 2021, he called to A “new American constitution” on social networks, claiming that the country needs a document which “guarantees the right to vote, abolishes the electoral college, offers repairs for slavery, guarantees annual income, and much more”.

In an article on Facebook in 2022, Green, which is called himself A “world opinion leader at the intersection of faith and social justice” and an “activist”, called President Joe Biden to establish a commission on repairs because “the impact of slavery and his vestiges are felt in all aspects of life for blacks”.

“I was proud to be arrested at DC airport with my comrades to protect voting rights, DC state and repairs,” said Green in a 2021 publish Facebook It included a video of him stopped. “We must continue to degenerate our actions across the country in order to protect the voting rights. This is our revolutionary summer. Wait, we have to keep your eyes on the price.”

“Trump’s executive order is still rooted in white supremacist nationalism”, Green Published on Facebook In June 2018. “We cannot relieve ourselves of our pressure to abolish ice and open our borders.”

The candidate of the mayor Zohran Mamdani camped in New York on April 16, 2025. (Angela Weiss / AFP via Getty Images)

In another Facebook publication that year, Green insisted to “abolish (ING) the police system in this nation” and amplified a separate position accusing the police system in the United States as anti-black.

A month after October 7, 2023, Hamas attacks on Israel, Green participated in a rally Call to a ceasefire. Pastor Jamal Bryant, who digital news previously reported To a long history of rental of the notorious Antisemite Nation, the head of Islam, Louis Farrakhan, was one of the leaders of the rally.

Bryant is the main voice behind the recent boycott of Target. Liberal activists have urged the public not to shop for the retailer in response to the recruit of the CEDI directives by the company.

Green also directed another rally in February following which was promoted as a “peace pilgrimage” for Gaza, saying: “We have traveled 150 miles to push the Biden administration to demand a cease-fire to protect the life of all the precious Palestinians and to continue the beloved community.”

“Black prophetic tradition calls me to do justice, to love mercy and to walk humbly with God while we denounce against genocide, occupation and war,” he continued, seeming to take a blow against Israel.

Chronology: Evolution of Mamdani’s funded police rhetoric to this week’s “damage control”

While the city of New York rolls from a deadly mass shooting that killed four, Zohran Mamdani attracts renewed attention for a commitment to eliminate a key police service responsible for riots, civil disturbances and fire. (Reuters / Jeenah Moon and Ap Photo / Mary Altaffer)

In recent weeks, Mamdani has faced an attack attack while the old interviews and former public media have been determined, several of which of 2020 and 2021 calling to finance the police.

“We need a socialist municipal council to finance the police,” Mamdani published on X in July 2020.

“The queer liberation means funding the police,” Mamdani Posted on X in November 2020.

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“Nature heals”, Mandani Posted on X In response to a user mocking and laughing at seeing a police officer “cry inside his car”.

However, last week, following a Midtown Manhattan shooting who left a dead Nypd officer Mamdani said his calls to defeat the police had been made of “frustration” on the death of George Floyd and seemed to be distant from his past rhetoric.

His comments left several in the community that he had really turned the page of the police antagonization, believing that the walkback was politically motivated while the city rolls from the worst mass shooting in half a century.

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