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Brad Lander, a Democratic primary candidate for New York's 10th Congressional District, recited a verse from the Quran in Arabic during a May 15, 2026 visit to the Al-Khoei Islamic Center in Queens, New York. Describing himself as "a proud Jewish New Yorker," Lander said that what he called "Israel's genocide in Gaza" violates the belief that all people are created in God's image. He added that if elected to Congress, he hopes to build the same kind of partnership he has with Zohran Mamdani alongside Representatives Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib.
Following his remarks, the imam led the congregation in a supplication asking that relief come to the believers through the Mahdi and through the killing of infidels by his sword.
Brad Lander: "I believe, as a proud Jewish New Yorker, that Israel's genocide in Gaza is a desecration, a violation of the understanding that everyone is created in God's image. Every one of those Palestinian kids in Gaza is just as divine as my beloved children.
"And so yes, in Congress I will not vote for any more U.S. military aid to Israel – not the bombs that are destroying the hospitals and schools in Gaza, and not the occupation in Lebanon, which is now I believe unfortunately on its way potentially to being a genocide as well.
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"The kind of partnership I developed with Zohran I hope to come to have with Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar and others in Congress, to show we can build a city, and a country, and a world that everyone can afford, and where everyone is welcome, and where everyone's humanity is respected.
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"In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate. Say: 'He is Allah, [who is] One, Allah, the Eternal Refuge, He neither begets nor is born, nor is there to Him any equivalent.' Thank you very much for welcoming me today."
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Imam: "Through your hands comes the relief for the believers and the killing of the infidels by your sword."
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