Naomi Wolf

Thanks so much for having me.

It's always wonderful to be with you all.

Yeah.

So very timely question.

And I always want to start by saying, you know, I don't have blanket criticism of any group, any religion, any ethnicity.

Just there's that.

But the issue is that in particular, Islam in New York City is being kind of weaponized in a very territorial way.

So the

The instance that you're referencing was thousands of people, mostly all men from what I was able to see in Washington Square Park, where incidentally, there's a mosque right there on Washington Square Park at NYU.

I've been to it.

I showed up, you know, to show my solidarity with the Muslim community.

when there were waves of anti-Islam feeling, and there's a giant mosque right behind those people.

And there was also a gathering in Brooklyn that Mayor Mamdani attended, which was also overwhelmingly male with women cordoned off in a tiny section in the rear.

So it raises a lot of questions, right, about public space and access and equality, especially because

I just interviewed an activist from Britain.

They're much further along in the weaponization of public space by imams, essentially.

And we kind of have to wake up that this isn't just your ordinary diversity issue in a free civil society.

So it's not right to ask about constitutional questions in this case, respectfully, because it's not about the separation of church and state.

you can have, you know, you can worship in public in our society.

It's perfectly constitutional.