Newsmax's Greg Kelly says the hijab is “not exactly something that is congruent with American culture”
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From the November 3, 2025, edition of Newsmax's Greg Kelly Reports
GREG KELLY (HOST): And also this, the World Trade Center. We are coming up next year on the 25th anniversary of those attacks, the terrorist attacks on America.
Do we want Mamdani as the sitting mayor of New York presiding over those ceremonies? I do not trust this man, and I don't think you should either, because he is a liar. He is a race baiter. He is a hustler. He is an antisemite and a terrorist sympathizer. And, he says it out loud, folks. He says it right there in plain sight.
He's also — I caught him doing this, playing the victim. Oh, boy. Yeah, he brings it on. He invites it. He doesn't assimilate on purpose. And then he begs people to criticize him for really not actually adopting the mores of the country that he went out of his way to become a citizen, we think. He accuses everyone and everything of racism. And he's been smearing an entire city, because, just the other day, after he won the primary by ten points, he said this whole city is just full of bigots and always has been.
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ZOHRAN MAMDANI: I want to use this moment to speak to the Muslims of the city. I want to speak to the memory of my aunt who stopped taking the subway after September 11th because she did not feel safe in her job. I want to speak to the Muslim city worker, whether they teach in our schools or or walk the beat for the NYPD. New Yorkers who all make daily sacrifices on behalf of the city only to see their leaders spit in their face.
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KELLY: Spit in their face — he has no idea what he's talking about. Or maybe he does, and he knows that he's lying. Now, the whole hijab thing — we figured out his aunt was in Tanzania, right? But I'm sorry. You know, this is a hijab. There are different versions of a hijab. This is one. It might make other people scared, OK? It's not exactly something that is congruent with American culture. Hijabs in parts of France are actually illegal. It's OK folks, it's OK. It's OK.