Mamdani’s Rhetoric Gets Results: Muslim Screaming ‘Allahu Akbar’ Stabs Two, Including a Jewish Man

terms. Also, the deity that is being invoked here is quite specifically the Allah of the Qur’an, and not the God of the Bible, and so it is best to leave that word untranslated.

Meanwhile, “akbar” does indeed mean “greatest,” or more precisely “biggest,” as well as “greater” or “bigger,” and in this case, the most accurate translation of the phrase continue reading …