Zohran Mamdani’s imam pal Siraj Wahhaj has a history of vile homophobic comments — and he’s only the latest person with similar beliefs the young mayoral candidate has been spending time with.

Wahhaj, a prominent 75-year-old Brooklyn imam, once called on followers to intimidate the LGBT community into becoming straight and joining Islam — and invoked violent rhetoric about murdering gay people while doing it.

“This is a disease of this society,” Wahhaj said in a sermon first revealed in 2017, advising followers to “defend against these homosexuals.” 4

“No matter how much the American government and the Canadian government legislated in their law that it is acceptable, it will never be acceptable by the Muslims,” said Wahhaj, who Mamdani visited in Brooklyn on Friday before postin

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