New York City elects a progressive Muslim Democratic socialist mayor.

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These are the stories we will discuss, and we will also address some of your questions.

I'm your host, Sean McDowell.

I'm your co-host, Scott Ray.

This is the Think Biblically Weekly Cultural Update, brought to you by Talbot School

of Theology, Biola University.

Scott, everybody has been talking about this story of the new mayor out of New York City this week, Mom Dami.

And I'm going to highlight a few things in this New York Times article about it and then eager to get your take.

So, Mom Dami is 34 years old.

He's a Democratic socialist.

That term matters. The 111th mayor of New York

City. He'll take office on January 1 and will become the most powerful Muslim elected

in the United States. Very, very interesting phenomenon on a lot of levels. He ran on simple

pledges to make buses free,

to freeze the rent on rent-stabilized apartments, and to provide universal free childcare.

So really a populist economic platform is what he did his election on. He built a campaign really from non-traditional sources.

Again, an interesting part of the story, winning support from young professionals,

immigrants and Muslims, some of them to have been among the 107,000 first-time voters who

registered in New York City.

That's pretty impressive.

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