‘Intolerance is a Virtue’: Matt Walsh Slams Zohran Mamdani for Shaming Cuomo Over Islam

Conservative media star Matt Walsh blasted New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani (D) for criticizing his competitor, Andrew Cuomo (D), for not being able to name a single mosque, with Walsh saying he is “not even going to tolerate this” because it is the next step towards Islam being forced upon American citizens.

Walsh ripped Mamdani on the Friday episode of his podcast, The Matt Walsh Show, which is part of Ben Shapiro’s The Daily Wire network. Mamdani, a night earlier, skewered Cuomo during a debate, saying he had ignored Muslims until Mamdani beat him in the June Democratic primary.

“It took Andrew Cuomo being beaten by a Muslim candidate in the Democratic primary for him to set foot in a mosque,” Mamdani said.

Walsh said this line of attack would have been unbelievable to anyone in 2002, a year after Muslim terrorists, as he mockingly put it, “rearranged” the Manhattan skyline.

But in 2025, Walsh said, leftists not only want you to “tolerate” their positions or beliefs on topics like trans rights — the next steps are “affirmation, celebration, [and] participation.”

The podcaster said you can count him out on participating in anything Islam-related.

“You know what, I’m not even going to tolerate this. I am actively opposed to this. I think it’s bad. I don’t want it in my community, and I don’t want it in my country,” Walsh said. “We need to be intolerant. Intolerance is a virtue. Intolerance is good, intolerance is holy, intolerance is Christian, intolerance is moral and courageous.”

He added intolerance is “loving” to your family, country, and way of life in America.

Walsh said, a moment earlier, that he is not really interested in defending Cuomo. But that he felt this was a “significant moment” in American politics that showed a bizarre shift, where politicians will now have to conform to Muslim culture, rather than Muslim immigrants assimilating to American culture.

Mamdani, during an interview with Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum on Wednesday, refused to say Hamas should disarm; he also said he would “exhaust every legal option” to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Bejamin Netanyahu, if he is elected NYC’s mayor.

You can watch his full segment on Mamdani above, via YouTube.