The New York chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-NY) today called on WABC to drop the openly racist radio host Sid Rosenberg following his latest anti-Muslim attacks on Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
In an X post, Sid Rosenberg called Mayor Mamdani a “Radical Islam cockroach” and a “Jihadist America hating mayor,” while urging Trump to intervene.
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In a statement, CAIR-NY Executive Director Afaf Nasher said:
“Mr. Rosenberg’s latest vile, racist attacks on Mayor Mamdani are completely unacceptable and completely unsurprising. Mr. Rosenberg has a long history of such comments, from comparing Black women to apes to now comparing New York’s first Muslim mayor to a cockroach. WABC should not host the program of such a hateful, slanderous bigot.”
CAIR previously called for Mr. Roseberg to be dismissed for hateful remarks on the 9/11 terror attacks and said that Rosenberg never should have been hired due to his past racist remarks about Black women.
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CONTACT: CAIR National Deputy Director Edward Ahmed Mitchell, 404-285-9530, e-Mitchell@cair.com; CAIR Government Affairs Director Robert McCaw, 202-742-6448, rmccaw@cair.com; CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper, 202-744-7726, ihooper@cair.com; CAIR National Communications Manager Ismail Allison, 202-770-6280, iallison@cair.com