The Rev. Al Sharpton blasted the Islamophobic hate speech peppered throughout the city’s race for mayor as Muslim Democratic frontrunner Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani made a campaign stop in Harlem on Saturday, claiming the divisive language will only pit New Yorkers “against each other.”
“I am outraged at the ugly Islamophobia that has been used in this campaign,” Sharpton told members of the National Action Network at the House of Justice in Harlem with Mamdani by his side. “To act as though every Muslim is a terrorist and connecting (him) to something as ugly as what happened to us on 9/11 is an insult to the intelligence of all New Yorkers.”
During his speech, Sharpton introduced the audience to Rev. Travis Boyd, the pastor of Sharon Baptist Church in the Bronx. Boyd’s mother was ki

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