New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani on Friday said he would more openly embrace his Muslim identity after a string of attacks from former Governor Andrew Cuomo and his allies that he called “racist and baseless.”

Standing outside a Bronx mosque, surrounded by imams and community leaders, the Democratic nominee grew emotional as he described how Muslim New Yorkers have lived with fear and humiliation since 9/11 — including his own relatives.

“My aunt stopped riding the subway after September 11 because she didn’t feel safe being seen in a headscarf,” Mamdani said, choking back tears. “These are lessons that so many Muslim New Yorkers have been taught. And over these last few days, those lessons have become the closing messages of Andrew Cuomo, Curtis Sliwa, and Eric Adams.”

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