The Anthony Cumia Show - February 25, 2026


Islamic Prayer Gathering in Times Square ｜ 02-22-26

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Anthony Cumia
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Anthony Cumia Show Lyndon Johnson BashaAllah Bobby Tafi
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Episode Stats


Length

12 minutes

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152.45

Word count

1,838

Sentence count

60

Harmful content

Misogyny

2

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Toxicity

3

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Hate speech

13

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Summary

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It's Ramadan, and Muslims are praying in Times Square. What does that have to do with football? And why should we care about it? Plus, a new Fanduel Super Sub that keeps you in the game even if your player leaves the match.

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00:01:17.680 There was a 1.00
00:01:18.780 big Ramadan
00:01:21.160 prayer
00:01:22.980 thing going on in Times Square.
00:01:27.060 This is Muslims praying in the street,
00:01:31.420 chanting, and
00:01:33.280 you know, it's one of those things that if you just blatantly come out and say,
00:01:38.880 no, this is wrong, this shouldn't be happening.
00:01:42.740 Obviously, if you're a little older, you remember
00:01:46.820 9-11, and you could not possibly imagine
00:01:50.080 as far as you can look down Times Square, 1.00
00:01:53.360 praying Muslims on their prayer rugs
00:01:56.640 and the sound of Islamic prayer echoing through the canyon of buildings
00:02:02.740 that is Times Square.
00:02:04.480 So it was alarming.
00:02:07.760 And you can't tell people that they have no reason to feel like that,
00:02:13.660 that you're a bigot, that that's terrible.
00:02:16.380 You just can't do it.
00:02:17.780 There's precedent. There's hindsight. There's memories that make people uneasy about it.
00:02:27.840 And that is if it was just merely prayer going on. But it wasn't. It wasn't.
00:02:37.840 One of the head muckety mucks there got up and started talking about Muslims in New York 0.96
00:02:46.180 and how people have this fear that they are taking over. 0.96
00:02:51.840 And he pretty much validates their fear by saying they are taking over.
00:02:56.600 Listen to this guy, AC7.
00:02:58.460 Yo, make some noise on the bottom of the water right now, baby. 0.71
00:03:02.120 BashaAllah, yeah. 1.00
00:03:04.380 Tafi!
00:03:05.100 oh don't scare them brothers relax they're over here on purpose to be like oh my god who's seen 1.00
00:03:13.640 those videos where they're like oh my god the muslims are taking over new york have you seen 1.00
00:03:16.680 those you seen those let them know that we are taking over new york city 0.99
00:03:21.560 oh my god let them know that we are taking over new york and then you know this sounds like
00:03:32.820 something out of a horror movie. I got to be honest. I got to be honest to you. This sounds
00:03:40.120 like something out of a horror movie. Yelling a la wakba. La wakba. And what do we got?
00:03:49.480 They're afraid. They say that we're taking over New York. Well, we are taking over New
00:03:55.080 York and then it's it's frightening it sounds frightening doesn't it and and don't don't be
00:04:07.460 bamboozled into thinking this is just peaceful prayer people want to pray they they have a big
00:04:16.160 thing in times square this has a motive to it and it is intimidation fear-mongering
00:04:24.940 trying to get people to say things that they would deem islamophobic
00:04:30.300 and then using that against people this is one of their tools in the toolbox of taking over
00:04:41.220 and and if you don't see it uh i don't know what to tell you you're a little naive you're a little
00:04:49.240 naive and uh bobby here in westchester bobby in westchester what's up man
00:04:54.100 hello hi hi hi anthony hey what's up yeah uh well listen it's the 1965 immigration act kicked in
00:05:09.940 you use this as material for your show you don't care about that you're just joking and laughing
00:05:14.860 the invasion has been 50 years no one did anything and you know you're sitting here you could talk
00:05:20.980 about the view and everything hey listen uh rosie you look cute in a burka there's a lot of people 0.86
00:05:25.860 in your audience listening your grandchildren they're going to be wearing burkas it's it's over
00:05:31.180 you got to be kidding you got to be why wouldn't you think why wouldn't you think i care about it
00:05:36.620 bobby i i i care about it i do a show and i touch on a lot of topics and i have to make things um
00:05:43.960 interesting compelling and then uh make them natural coming out of me and my personality
00:05:49.740 when i talk about it but why would you think that that adds up to i don't care well you're a johnny
00:05:56.340 come lately the 65 immigration they all came in here the last 50 60 years johnny you don't think 0.99
00:06:04.060 i've been talking about this for almost my entire life this this problem with uh islam coming into 1.00
00:06:13.040 this country not assimilating not even not assimilating directly opposing what we stand 0.99
00:06:19.520 for and what we do how do you know how do you know what i've been talking about for my entire life
00:06:24.240 well you've been under with abc for almost a year now you never talk about the 65 immigration act
00:06:30.620 I have talked about that.
00:06:32.580 Of course I have.
00:06:34.300 I've talked about that.
00:06:36.160 Lyndon Johnson, he could roll it up and stick it where the sun don't shine.
00:06:41.580 Fiasque me.
00:06:43.460 But that was 65 years ago.
00:06:45.260 Why ain't they doing it to repeal it now?
00:06:46.540 I was four.
00:06:48.060 They've got to repeal it.
00:06:49.060 I was four years old, Bobby.
00:06:52.680 You had to give me a couple of years to get up to speed at least.
00:06:56.300 i'm not talking about your age in 1965 i'm talking about the 65 years that have passed five
00:07:04.340 you never called for i needed a couple of years to catch up i i wasn't very political in elementary
00:07:10.760 school uh and we didn't have a lot of islamic children on long island at my schools so it took
00:07:18.380 a little while for me to get interested in what's going to high school it was all about girls bobby
00:07:24.560 girls in cars i didn't really care about the 1965 civil rights or immigration act and then
00:07:32.540 then in my 20s and into my 30s i started looking around and going oh oh oh boy and i said to
00:07:39.980 myself i go i wish i would have learned sooner and done something when i was maybe eight or nine
00:07:46.640 years old so that bobby and westchester wouldn't be angry with me well i'm not talking about your
00:07:53.000 high school days i'm talking about now and plus you ever see the visas they give out the tourist
00:07:57.740 visas and you've been to the airports i see people coming in in the airports they're up with tourist
00:08:03.460 visas who goes on vacation with all their worldly possessions you know why they do that because they
00:08:08.940 ain't leaving that's why and this thing with nancy gutry where they show the border people i've always
00:08:14.800 said the border's not closed you can drive in and out of that border anytime you want you can bring
00:08:19.460 anybody into this country they're just lying you think the mexicans you think the mexicans took her
00:08:24.160 what you think the mexicans took uh nancy guthrie i i think it's a good possibility but
00:08:31.360 they cross the border they live on both sides of the border if you understand it and the thing is
00:08:36.880 let's face it they were in that house for 40 minutes they thought there was big cash in that
00:08:41.020 house and they ripped it apart she and they started they people don't realize they'll beat
00:08:45.700 the hell out of an old lady that's what they probably did they hit her they smacked around
00:08:49.420 for the cash and then they took her out of the building well listen the martin technology they're
00:08:53.920 not telling us everything they have more video they have satellite photos the cars can be traced
00:09:00.000 with all the computers you're worried about being traced your car is being traced with the computer
00:09:04.280 systems they can trace it right right to the where it was manufactured and listen they're coming in
00:09:09.940 out of the board it's all light man danny 85 percent of the people who voted for him were 0.58
00:09:14.000 foreigners muslims uh communists all voted van they tried to say the college kids were doing it 0.75
00:09:19.240 right yeah the college kids were voting that was all bs a lie they want this country invaded
00:09:24.360 saudi arabia pours billions of dollars into america so does guitar so does china to change
00:09:30.600 this country nobody ever brings it up nobody but i i i agree with you it's amazing how uh
00:09:39.940 how confrontational you can be with me when i have i completely agree with everything you're saying
00:09:47.920 i understand you say that but you got to do a show you got to do a show but i'm not i'm not 0.97
00:09:57.220 doing the muslims are taking over america show i talk about it a lot i talk about it here i talk
00:10:03.900 about it on my internet show but you know i have to hit on other things and i was just talking
00:10:09.100 about it when i took your call i just mentioned the whole thing with time square so you are really
00:10:16.640 really a confrontational guy bobby but i like you i like you bobby i gotta move on though
00:10:22.700 holy jesus that guy's hilarious what's wrong with you why don't you do that but no i agree
00:10:28.480 i was talking about i don't like the idea that they're uh uh praying in huge numbers in time
00:10:37.820 square because it's it's not just prayer it's intimidation they're trying to scare people
00:10:43.740 they're trying to make people say things that get them in trouble and bobby's like wow 65
00:10:51.820 oh i wish wish i could have been four years old and and voted
00:10:58.100 gee gee mr lbj i'm gonna vote against this i don't like it at all hilarious i like that guy
00:11:13.160 he's full of vim and vigor
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