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Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville (Alabama) has called for New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani to be imprisoned in the notorious Guantan\u00e1mo Bay torture camp, labelling the Muslim politician a \u201cthug\u201d amid a rise in racist and Islamophobic attacks against him ahead of the 25th anniversary of the 9\/11 attack.<\/p>\n

In an interview with far right podcaster Benny Johnson, Tuberville falsely labeled Mamdani a communist, repeating a debunked falsehood favored by Republicans that Mamdani lied about his being a communist on his naturalization form. <\/p>\n

The senator did not offer any other allegations of illegal activity by Mamdani, but still said that he should be sent to Guant\u00e1namo Bay, the prison camp established to house Muslims accused of being \u201cterrorists\u201d during the start of the Global War on Terror.<\/p>\n

\u201cSooner or later he will do something more stupid than what he\u2019s done, to where we\u2019ll finally say, \u2018enough\u2019s enough. Go put the handcuffs on him and get him the hell out of here,\u2019\u201d said Tuberville. \u201cSend him to Gitmo. Because this guy hates this country. He wants to change it. And it\u2019s not going to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

He went on to say that people with \u201csocialism, communism syndrome\u201d have \u201cinfiltrated\u201d the U.S.\u2019s intelligence agencies, and that those people should be thrown into Guant\u00e1namo Bay. This should be done without giving people due process, Tuberville says, because \u201cthey do not deserve\u201d to be \u201ceven on trial in this country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Last week, Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon also called for Mamdani to be arrested for supposedly \u201cpromot[ing] antisemitism\u201d after Mamdani called for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to face arrest for his role in committing genocide in Gaza.<\/p>\n

This is just the latest Islamophobic attack on Mamdani by Tuberville. The mayor has previously condemned Tuberville for reposting an Islamophobic post on X in March from account \u201cEnd Wokeness.\u201d The original post said, \u201cLess than 25 years apart,\u201d with a photo of the 9\/11 attack and a screencap from Mamdani hosting an Iftar event at New York City Hall. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe enemy is inside the gates,\u201d Tuberville wrote.<\/p>\n

Mamdani has previously spoken out about the Islamophobia he\u2019s experienced as a Muslim, and especially as a Muslim public figure. On the campaign trail last year, Mamdani gave an emotional speech discussing the hate that Muslims often face. <\/p>\n

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\u201cGrowing up in the shadow of 9\/11, I have known what it means to live with an undercurrent of suspicion in this city. I will always remember the disdain I faced,\u201d Mamdani said. \u201cThe dream of every Muslim is simply to be treated the same as any other New Yorker.\u201d<\/p>\n

Indeed, right wingers have recently embraced another Islamophobic smear campaign against Mamdani. With Mamdani soon slated to speak at the 25th anniversary of 9\/11, right wing outlets like the New York Post<\/em>, CBS<\/em>, and Fox<\/em> have run articles and segments on a viral claim that families of the victims want the mayor to be barred from attending the ceremony. <\/p>\n

They say that \u201cthousands\u201d of families of the victims support this idea, citing a petition on Change.org started by a man named Giovanni Galante, whose wife was killed in the attack. CBS<\/em> reported that there were 23,000 signatures on the petition, which it characterizes as a \u201cPetition from 9\/11 families.\u201d<\/p>\n

But, as Popular Information<\/em> reported, the claim that \u201cthousands\u201d of 9\/11 victims\u2019 families had signed the petition was a lie. Galante, a registered Republican, told Popular Information<\/em> that there was no verification that those signing the petition were family members of the victims. He claimed that roughly 300 signatures were from victims\u2019 families, because: \u201cWe all know each other, so \u2026 think about it. If you know 10 people and they give it to 10 more people they know that lost. That\u2019s how we got the 300 number.\u201d<\/p>\n

Still, conservatives have leapt at the chance to spread more Islamophobic claims about Mamdani. In a segment on Fox Business<\/em> that garnered 70,000 views on Youtube, host Cheryl Casone said that, \u201cif it was 25 years ago, he\u2019d probably be supporting the attackers.\u201d She said Mamdani \u201cis not on the side of Jewish Americans, and he certainly does not seem to have much sorrow about 9\/11.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mamdani responded to the claims on Monday and said that he still plans to attend the ceremony. He said that he plans to \u201cproudly honor the families, the survivors, the first responders forever impacted by that horrific terror attack by standing alongside them at this year\u2019s 9\/11 commemoration.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Wall Street Journal<\/em> also faced criticism this week for publishing an op-ed criticizing Mamdani that used a picture in which a man was holding up a cutout of Mamdani\u2019s head with a photoshopped headband resembling those worn by Hamas militants. The picture was labelled by critics as \u201cvirulently anti-Muslim\u201dand \u201cwildly Islamophobic.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The remark comes amid a rise in Islamophobic attacks on Mamdani ahead of the 25th anniversary of 9\/11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"yoast_head":"\nGOP Senator Calls Mamdani a \u201cThug,\u201d Says He Should Be Imprisoned in Gitmo - Smart Moving Home<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=1231\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"GOP Senator Calls Mamdani a \u201cThug,\u201d Says He Should Be Imprisoned in Gitmo - Smart Moving Home\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The remark comes amid a rise in Islamophobic attacks on Mamdani ahead of the 25th anniversary of 9\/11.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=1231\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Smart Moving Home\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-07-29T21:38:43+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/smartmovinghome.com\\\/?p=1231#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/smartmovinghome.com\\\/?p=1231\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/smartmovinghome.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/ec0d70042821fd684a174c8d0e8becfa\"},\"headline\":\"GOP Senator Calls Mamdani a \u201cThug,\u201d Says He Should Be Imprisoned in Gitmo\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-07-29T21:38:43+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/smartmovinghome.com\\\/?p=1231\"},\"wordCount\":857,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/smartmovinghome.com\\\/?p=1231#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/smartmovinghome.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/07\\\/b80511b9ac225d6b95e2d1c1961bd101.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Interesting\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/smartmovinghome.com\\\/?p=1231#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/smartmovinghome.com\\\/?p=1231\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/smartmovinghome.com\\\/?p=1231\",\"name\":\"GOP Senator Calls Mamdani a \u201cThug,\u201d Says He Should Be Imprisoned in Gitmo - 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