Wahhaj’s past remarks trashing the US were resurfaced over the weekend after Mamdani sparked controversy for meeting with the divisive Brooklyn imam on the mayoral campaign trail.

The clip of Wahhaj’s comments, which were made in 1995 and uncovered by the Investigative Project on Terrorism, captured the prominent imam spewing the anti-American vitriol.

Here’s Mamdani’s Imam, Siraj Wahhaj, calling America “filthy” and “sick”, saying it’s an honor to die in Jihad and saying that getting involved in “politics is a weapon in the cause of Islam” pic.twitter.com/eBR4SoI7X6

“You know what this country is? It’s a garbage can,” he seethed.

“It’s filthy. It’s filthy and sick.”

He also once called on Muslims to infiltrate American democracy for use as a “weapon” of Islamic causes.

Mamdani has been in hot water ever since his Friday rendezvous with Wahhaj came to light — with some Muslims blasting the Democratic socialist mayoral candidate’s association with him given the imam’s history of terror allegations.

He was reportedly considered by federal prosecutors to be an “unindicted co-conspirator” in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing that left six dead given several people involved in the terror attack attended his mosque.

Wahhaj was never charged and denied any connection, but later defended those behind the attack and called the FBI and CIA the “real terrorists.”

Meanwhile, Wahhaj’s son was nabbed in 2018 and sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of keeping a band of teens in squalor in the New Mexico desert while training them to carry out terror attacks across the country.

Despite the questionable history, Mamdani called the prominent imam “one of the nation’s foremost Muslim leaders and a pillar of the Bed-Stuy community for nearly half a century” after their meeting – sparking immediate backlash.

Mamdani, who would be the first Muslim mayor of New York City, has claimed critics are fired up about his association with the iman because of his “faith.”

“The same imam met with Mayor Bloomberg, met with Mayor De Blasio, campaigned alongside Eric Adams, and the only time it became an issue of national attention was when I met with him,” he claimed.

Mamdani, who would be the first Muslim mayor of New York City, has claimed critics are fired up about his association with the iman because of his “faith.”

“That’s because of the fact of my faith and because I’m on the precipice of winning this election.”

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