Incoming New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani will make history as the city’s first mayor to take the oath of office on a Quran.
I’m okay with this being the last time we ever continue this practice. One more time for the symbolism yada yada, but we really we stop using religious texts and recognize that they are not anything other than instruction manuals for self-flagellation in servitude to capital and they don’t belong in government for that exact reason
Technically people can swear on whatever they want to. They dont have to swear on a religious text. They could swear on the constitution or whatever. Its just general practice and up to the preference of the individual being sworn in
Can one be sworn in on their mom? Or does it have to be an object?
This is going to really really trigger the right.
Reminded of the Ground Zero Mosque hysteria from back under Obama.
I just hope Mamdani isn’t foolish enough to have a beer with any of these fascist fucks.
But whatever you do, don’t bring a raspberry pi
Don’t want to disappoint the man.
Noice…
“Oh no!!! What’s happening to our country!!! Muslims aren’t even human!” —-fox, cnn, republicans, Israel, npr, bbc, neoliberals, msnbc, all of cable news.
Not going to put a sarcasm thingee here because based on the reporting the last couple of years, it’s completely true.
Why would npr say that?
Yeah, npr, bbc, and msnbc are very odd entries in that list. I think homie might be painting msm with a slightly too broad brush lol. They have their issues, but I’ve never heard xenophobia out of npr.
NPR as an entity is really good about reporting on Islamophobia compared to like…ALL of US MSM. Some NPR hosts however still fall into the biases of post-9/11 xenophobic rhetoric, especially when it comes to brown people who support Gaza.
I still wouldn’t put them on the same level as BBC and MSNBC, and DEFINITELY not Fox and CNN.
They reported politicians calling Mamdani an extreme radical fundamentalist hundreds of times without context. Both siding the issue.
As a listener, the message is… we at NPR are unsure whether Mamdani is a radical Islamic fundamentalist socialist communist…. They rarely even go into his actual policies even when he was constantly being called these things. Hundreds of times…. I may have heard like one in depth interview where they explained that it’s not even possible to hold all of these beliefs simultaneously. NPR is absolutely the same as corporate media in this regard, same as BBC… but like I said, they are slightly better…
As far as msnbc, I’m not even going to go there. If you can’t see the neoliberal corporate influence on their reporting… we need another post or something to discuss.
I think I included msnbc because they have the same corporate interests as the other so called right wing corporate media… all them them agree with the uniparty currently controlling our government.
Included to have an example of so called left leaning corporate media that is very much right of center on the political spectrum.
While I agree they aren’t as bad, I do like NPR actually, but they are absolutely neoliberal in their reporting… this is a quick google ai summary, but take it for what it is… NPR is similar to BBC with it’s both sides so called neutral framing on these and similar issues… I can’t listen to geopolitical discourse on NPR or BBC anymore without yelling at the radio lol….
In the context of reporting the news on the genocide in Gaza, this seems similar to me as this imaginary reporting story; “Today in Germany, Hitler began rounding up the gays and Jewish folks, while one Jewish representative was removed from the parliament for shouting what authorities in Germany are calling ‘illegal speech’. voiceover to a scuffle being shouted in german The representative shouted obscenities that are completely unacceptable on the floor of parliament, one German official is reported as saying. NPR has reached out to the Jewish representative for comments but he has not responded as of press time. In other news, dogs actually do smile according to breaking research from Norway…. More, after the break.”
I’m not a fan of qurans, bibles or whatever. But the thought of right wingers getting heart palpitations at the sight of Mamdani swearing on the quran makes me chuckle.
