The brazenness of anti-Muslim bigotry emanating from the far right is not only shocking — it demands the clearest condemnation from all decent people.
New York is, and must always be, a place for all people — Jews, Christians, and Muslims; Black, White, Latino, and Asian. We are New Yorkers. We are Americans. And above all, we are bound together by a common creed: E Pluribus Unum — out of many, one.
I will never lose faith in that abiding American ideal.