MAGA and Mamdani with Imam Tom Facchine

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The return of Donald Trump to office raises the question of how far Americans have moved away from the ideas that underpinned its rise to globalism after 1945. What is Make America Great Again, and how important is this moment.

I am here in New York with Imam Tom Facchine, one of the most astute commentators of America politics in our community. We look at the MAGA movement and the Mamdani moment. What does his victory mean for our community and how should we judge Zohran’s politics? Imam Tom Facchine is research director at Yaqeen Institute.

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Timestamps
0:00 - Introduction
02:17 - New York mayoral elections
09:00 - Donate to Baitulmaal
09:45 - Zohran Mamdani
14:51 - Muslim political candidates
19:36 - Negating the Democrats?
22:49 - Muslim political engagement
24:51 - Fiqh & political engagement
31:59 - The Muslim American community
34:25 - MAGA
42:25 - MAGA influencers
46:25 - MAGA & Israel
47:48 - Democrats vs Republicans
55:15 - The US Constitution
59:29 - Mosques in the US