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Opponents of New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani called out the mayoral frontrunner over the weekend after he was pictured with controversial Brooklyn imam Siraj Wahhaj.

Mamdani met with the religious leader on Friday, posting a photo of the two alongside activist Yusef Abdus Salaam.

“Today at Masjid At-Taqwa, I had the pleasure of meeting with Imam Siraj Wahhaj, one of the nation’s foremost Muslim leaders and a pillar of the Bed-Stuy community for nearly half a century,” wrote Mamdani.

Mayoral opponent Andrew Cuomo was quick to criticize Mamdani over the post, highlighting the imam’s alleged ties to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing that left six people dead.

“[Mamdani] is proud to be standing with an unindicted co-conspirator in the 93 World Trade Center terror attack that killed New Yorkers?” Cuomo told the New York Post on Saturday.

Cuomo also called attention to statements that Imam Wahhaj made against the LGBTQ community, where he suggested that if two gay men are found

together, they should be killed. The imam told followers not to launch physical attacks against gay people during those remarks, records show.

“For Zohran to think that he should be mayor of New York, the capital of acceptance and tolerance and diversity, the city and the state where the gay rights movement was birthed, the place that made history in passing same-sex marriage, the disconnect is so disturbing,” said Cuomo.

Republican nominee for New York City mayor, Curtis Sliwa, also criticized Mamdani’s association with the Imam.

“The fact that Mamdani stands with this imam is disqualifying,” said Sliwa. “New York needs a mayor who protects New Yorkers from terrorism, not embraces terrorists.”

Fox News also chimed in, interviewing two retired FBI agents who investigated the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

“Zohran Mamdani’s embrace of Siraj Wahhaj is an example of Mamdani’s ignorance of history,” retired FBI agent Frank Pellegrino said on Fox. “Either he doesn’t know who Wahhaj is or he doesn’t care. Whichever it is, Mamdani looks foolish.”

Conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer also tweeted about the photograph, noting child abuse charges against the imam’s son in 2018.

“This is what happens when we let jihadists into our country,” wrote Loomer.

Mr. Wahhaj’s name appeared on a list of alleged co-conspirators of the Wold Trade Center attack. He was never charged. The New York Times reported that the

list Wahhaj appeared on has been criticized by some former terrorism prosecutors as being overly broad.

Wahhaj, the first Muslim to give the invocation before the House of Representatives, endorsed Mamdani in an Instagram post this summer.

“The same imam met with Mayor Bloomberg, met with Mayor de Blasio, campaigned alongside Eric Adams, and the only time that it became an issue of national attention was when I met with him,” Mamdani told CBS News on Sunday. “And that’s because of the fact of my faith and because I’m on the precipice of winning this election.”

Mamdani maintains a large lead in the mayoral race, with CNN’s Harry Enten declaring on Friday that the race is “pretty much over” as Mamdani enjoys an 18-point lead in the latest polling.