New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani attended and spoke at the Friday prayers at the Imam Al-Khoei Islamic Center in Jamaica, Queens, during a service in which the mosque's imam delivered a supplication. According to a translation by MEMRI TV, the supplication called for "the killing of the infidels by your sword" in reference to the Shi'a messianic figure known as the Mahdi.


The Al-Khoei Islamic Center operates under the Imam Al-Khoei Benevolent Foundation and has received documented financial support from the Alavi Foundation, a New York-based nonprofit whose Manhattan real estate interests became the subject of the largest ever terrorism-related forfeiture case in U.S. history. Federal prosecutors alleged that the Alavi Foundation served as a front for Iranian government interests and violated U.S. sanctions regulations.

MEMRI’s video shows Mamdani addressing the congregation, followed in the same service by the imam’s dua (supplication) in Arabic. The English subtitles provided by MEMRI render a key passage as an appeal for “the killing of the infidels by your sword,” presented as part of an eschatological prayer about the Mahdi’s anticipated return.

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