Mohammed Hameeduddin
| Mohammed Hameeduddin | |
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| Mayor of Teaneck, New Jersey | |
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In office July 1, 2010 – July 1, 2014 |
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| Preceded by | Kevie Feit |
| Succeeded by | Lizette Parker |
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| Born | 1973 (age 43–44) |
| Residence | Teaneck |
| Religion | Islam |
Mohammed Hameeduddin (born c. 1973) is an American politician and the former Mayor of Teaneck, New Jersey from 2010 until 2014. He was elected on July 1, 2010, in a 5-2 vote by the non-partisan township council. The son of immigrants from Hyderabad, India, Hameeduddin is the first Muslim-American to be elected mayor in Bergen County, and one of a few Muslims to hold the office of mayor in the United States.
The township's deputy mayor, Adam Gussen, an Orthodox Jew, had attended primary school, Teaneck High School and Rutgers University with Hameeduddin. Hameeduddin told the New Jersey Jewish News the pair first met in middle school, in grade six, when they were both sent to their school's principal's office for different infractions.
His election sparked media attention to the diversity of Teaneck's population.
Hameeduddin had been Teaneck's first Muslim councilmember when he was elected to a four-year term on the Township Council in 2008. On May 8, 2012, Hameeduddin was re-elected as Mayor of Teaneck with 4,374 votes.
Scholars and journalists have chosen to quote and comment on Hameeduddin's term as mayor.
During the summer of 2010 the conversion of a building in Manhattan to a mosque triggered controversy for some Americans, because it was less than a mile from the site where the World Trade Center towers had been brought down, with great loss of life, by hijacked airliners piloted by Muslim extremists. On August 16, 2010, Gwen Ifill of the PBS Newshour tried to moderate a discussion between Hameeduddin and Rick Lazio a former member of the US Congress and candidate for Governor of New York, overr the "Ground Zero Mosque". The discussion grew acrimonious, very acrimonious by PBS standards, and Ifill felt she should write about how the acrimonious discussion escaped her control to moderate the next day.
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