Mahmood Mamdani
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Oct 28, 2026
Amy GoodmanHOST
Alex Preti's parents have accused the federal government of protecting the Customs and Border Protection agents who fatally shot their son in January in Minneapolis and said the Trump administration has stonewalled them from the investigation in the nine months since Alex Preti was killed.
Amy GoodmanHOST
This is Alex's father, Michael, who spoke alongside his wife, Susan, from Minneapolis Tuesday.
Michael PretiSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We believe in the rule of law and that people should be held accountable through that law.
Michael PretiSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
However, our experience with the Department of Justice has left us wondering how Alex will ever get justice.
32 MINS LATER
Amy GoodmanHOST
And what did he campaign on? Gasoline prices and Gaza.
speaker_15GUEST
Exactly.
Amy GoodmanHOST
And you were a professor at Columbia, now Professor Emeritus, with his father, Mahmoud Mamdani.
Amy GoodmanHOST
Right.
Amy GoodmanHOST
Alex Preti's parents have accused the federal government of protecting the Customs and Border Protection agents who fatally shot their son in January in Minneapolis, and said the Trump administration has stonewalled them from the investigation in the nine months since Alex Preti was killed.
Amy GoodmanHOST
This is Alex's father, Michael, who spoke alongside his wife Susan from Minneapolis Tuesday.
MichaelSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We believe in the rule of law and that people should be held accountable through that law.
MichaelSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
However, our experience with the Department of Justice has left us wondering how Alex will ever get justice.
32 MINS LATER
Amy GoodmanHOST
And what did he campaign on? Gasoline prices and Gaza.
Seni SinghSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Exactly.
Amy GoodmanHOST
And you were a professor at Columbia, now Professor Emeritus, with his father, Mahmoud Mamdani, also a very powerful voice on the issue of Palestine.
Rashid KhalidiGUEST
I mean, they are trying to silence these voices, student voices.
Amy GoodmanHOST
Alex Preti's parents have accused the federal government of protecting the Customs and Border Protection agents who fatally shot their son in January in Minneapolis and said the Trump administration has stonewalled them from the investigation in the nine months since Alex Preti was killed.
Amy GoodmanHOST
This is Alex's father, Michael, who spoke alongside his wife, Susan, from Minneapolis Tuesday.
Michael PretiSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We believe in the rule of law and that people should be held accountable through that law.
Michael PretiSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
However, our experience with the Department of Justice has left us wondering how Alex will ever get justice.
32 MINS LATER
Amy GoodmanHOST
And what did he campaign on? Gasoline prices and Gaza.
speaker_15UNKNOWN
Exactly.
Amy GoodmanHOST
And you were a professor at Columbia, now Professor Emeritus, with his father, Mahmoud Mamdani.
Amy GoodmanHOST
Right.
Amy GoodmanHOST
Alex Preti's parents have accused the federal government of protecting the Customs and Border Protection agents who fatally shot their son in January in Minneapolis and said the Trump administration has stonewalled them from the investigation in the nine months since Alex Preti was killed.
Amy GoodmanHOST
This is Alex's father, Michael, who spoke alongside his wife, Susan, from Minneapolis Tuesday.
Michael PretiSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We believe in the rule of law and that people should be held accountable through that law.
Michael PretiSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
However, our experience with the Department of Justice has left us wondering how Alex will ever get justice.
32 MINS LATER
Amy GoodmanHOST
And what did he campaign on? Gasoline prices and Gaza.
speaker_15UNKNOWN
Exactly.
Amy GoodmanHOST
And you were a professor at Columbia, now Professor Emeritus, with his father, Mahmoud Mamdani.
Amy GoodmanHOST
Right.
Bill Fletcher Jr.GUEST
How that struggle gets played out remains a very big question because it has major implications.
Elia AyoubHOST
Given the, we have seen a, obviously with Mamdani's election and now with, I would say the kind of making waves and so on, a way, however flawed, of challenging the mainstream Democrats from their left.
Elia AyoubHOST
How do you see that kind of developing? Is there any sort of, yeah, just how do you see it developing really? How are your reflections on them in general?
Bill Fletcher Jr.GUEST
So I think it's fantastic.
Stephen MaikaHOST
But it's a name we rarely hear.
Stephen MaikaHOST
We know it was mentioned, but if you ask someone in the current generation, probably none of them will have heard of that name, and it's pretty sad.
Derek PetersonGUEST
It's hard to overstate how, in the 20th century, how important Missouri was for Americans in particular.
Stephen MaikaHOST
in interpreting African heritage and history
13 MINS LATER
Derek PetersonGUEST
Okay.
Stephen MaikaHOST
Ah, interesting.
Stephen MaikaHOST
When I was doing some bit of research for this conversation, I bumped into something by someone whom I know you know very well, Professor Mahmood Mamdani.
Stephen MaikaHOST
And I saw something where he says that during the First World War, the British, of course, the Raj in India was still ongoing.
speaker_15SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Fairfax County Public Schools did not return a Monday request for comment, but did express that safety of their students and staff, quote, remains a top priority.
Michael BerryHOST
Mahmoud Mamdani, that's a pretty name, is the father of New York City Mayor Zoran Mamdani.
Michael BerryHOST
And he's a professor at Columbia University, so he's talking to your kids should they get into this Ivy League school.
Michael BerryHOST
He went on camera and said that Hitler learned from America.
Craig CohenHOST
Mm
Samiha RizviGUEST
... which is another problem, right? Um, you know, defined by the scholar Mahmood Mamdani about the good Muslim being the person that puts their head down and the bad Muslim being the person that speaks up as a Muslim, and, you know, wears that badge proudly.
Samiha RizviGUEST
But unfortunately for the Western world and for people that aren't Muslim, it's a bad thing because they don't want us to speak about our faith and advocate for the principles that our faith teaches us, which is justice for all.
Craig CohenHOST
Ultimately, uh, do you think what it means to be Muslim in America, and in particular here in Houston, has changed a lot across 25 years?
Shane ContoHOST
Nair made the film with her then-husband, and they wound up their marriage faltering while making this film.
Shane ContoHOST
And interestingly enough, she met her future husband while doing research, Mahmood Mamdani.
Shane ContoHOST
And their child is now mayor of New York City, Zoran Mamdani.
Shane ContoHOST
So honestly, there would be no Zoran Mamdani, the mayor of New York City, if it weren't for Mississippi Masala.
Yasir QadhiSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So I went to a book that was assigned reading in my class for 10 years.
Yasir QadhiSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It's called Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror by Mahmood Mamdani.
Yasir QadhiSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And I'm like, "This is Mamdani." I open the page.
Yasir QadhiSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
By the way, this is my copy from 2010.
Yasir QadhiSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
2004, it became, not a bestseller because it's an academic book, but it became one of the most important bestsellers in the field of political Islam.
Yasir QadhiSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And I heard of the book when I was doing my PhD, and when I started teaching, uh, I assigned it to my undergraduate students as a part of their required reading.
Yasir QadhiSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So what is this book about? What was the controversy about it, and what is the summary of this book? The author is, of course, Mahmood Mamdani.
Yasir QadhiSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
He's an Indian of Gujarati, uh, origin, but, uh, raised in British Uganda.
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