Eric Adams slams Zohran Mamdani over socialist’s push for legalized prostitution

“I can’t be more clear. I’m a man of God, just as Mamdani says he’s a Muslim. I don’t know where in his Quran it states that it’s okay for a woman to be on the streets selling their body,” Adams told reporters.

“I don’t know what Quran he is reading. It’s not in my Bible,” he added. “As a man who said he is of faith, I don’t quite understand what religion supports prostitution.”

Mamdani, who claims to be a believing Muslim, has taken up the issue on multiple occasions since he ran for the New York City assembly in 2020, according to the New York Post. Prostitution is also very much against the tenets of Islam.

“I think he’s lost on the fact that sex trafficking is very much part of prostitution,” Adams added in his comments. “We are trying to bring down crime and he is talking about legalizing sex work.”

“You’re not doing any service to a woman who is on the street who is forced to sell her body for whatever reason,” he added. “No one should be on our streets selling their bodies. No one."

Mamdani, aside from other left-wing policy he has proposed during his campaign, such as freezing rents, government-run grocery stores, and raising the minimum wage to $30 an hour, has co-sponsored legislation in the New York assembly that would legalize prostitution across the city.

"If that is his belief, it is a danger for our city," Adams added in his comments. "Our city needs to be a safe city. It should not be a city where women are standing on corners, or boys are standing on corners, or young men standing on corners selling their bodies."