{"id":259187,"date":"2026-05-29T18:47:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T22:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/shaun-maguire-picked-for-pentagon-tech-board-after-accusing-mamdani-of-being-an-islamist\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T19:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T23:30:09","slug":"shaun-maguire-picked-for-pentagon-tech-board-after-accusing-mamdani-of-being-an-islamist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/shaun-maguire-picked-for-pentagon-tech-board-after-accusing-mamdani-of-being-an-islamist\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaun Maguire picked for Pentagon tech board after accusing Mamdani of being an &#8216;Islamist&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/komonews.com\/news\/nation-world\/shaun-maguire-picked-for-pentagon-tech-board-after-accusing-mamdani-of-being-an-islamist-pete-hegseth-nyc-mayor-zohran-mamdani-science-technology-and-innovation-board-technology-inflammatory-social-media\">Shaun Maguire picked for Pentagon tech board after accusing Mamdani of being an &#8216;Islamist&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/komonews.com\/news\/nation-world\/shaun-maguire-picked-for-pentagon-tech-board-after-accusing-mamdani-of-being-an-islamist-pete-hegseth-nyc-mayor-zohran-mamdani-science-technology-and-innovation-board-technology-inflammatory-social-media\">https:\/\/komonews.com\/news\/nation-world\/shaun-maguire-picked-for-pentagon-tech-board-after-accusing-mamdani-of-being-an-islamist-pete-hegseth-nyc-mayor-zohran-mamdani-science-technology-and-innovation-board-technology-inflammatory-social-media<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-29 18:47:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"komonews.com\">komonews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dateline\">WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 <\/span>The Defense Department appointed 33 new members to the recently established Science, Technology and Innovation Board (STIB). One of the new appointees has been accused of making Islamophobic threats targeting the New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, the Pentagon announced that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth named Shaun Maguire, a partner at Sequoia Capital, to the STIB along with 32 other appointees. <\/p>\n<p>According to the announcement, the combination of the Defense Innovation Board and the Defense Science Board aims to bring \u201ctogether top-tier talent that combines scientific and technical rigor with private-sector agility,\u201d to serve \u201cas a single, unified voice for innovation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maguire has allegedly previously labeled Mamdani as an \u201cIslamist\u201d and attacked him on social media.<\/p>\n<p>In July of last year, Maguire made a social media post accusing Mamdani \u2014 who is of Indian descent and born in Uganda \u2014 of coming \u201cfrom a culture that lies about everything\u201d to advance \u201chis Islamist agenda.\u201d The post came after it was reported that Mamdani marked himself as both \u201cAsian\u201d and \u201cBlack or African American\u201d on a college application.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Following the post, more than 800 tech industry founders condemned Maguire&#8217;s comments in an open letter, calling it a \u201cdeliberate, inflammatory attack that promotes dangerous anti-Muslim stereotypes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/komonews.com\/news\/nation-world\/shaun-maguire-picked-for-pentagon-tech-board-after-accusing-mamdani-of-being-an-islamist-pete-hegseth-nyc-mayor-zohran-mamdani-science-technology-and-innovation-board-technology-inflammatory-social-media\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shaun Maguire picked for Pentagon tech board after accusing Mamdani of being an &#8216;Islamist&#8217; https:\/\/komonews.com\/news\/nation-world\/shaun-maguire-picked-for-pentagon-tech-board-after-accusing-mamdani-of-being-an-islamist-pete-hegseth-nyc-mayor-zohran-mamdani-science-technology-and-innovation-board-technology-inflammatory-social-media&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":259188,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/komonews.com\/resources\/media2\/16x9\/1024\/1320\/0x53\/90\/160550ef-7a08-40d1-ae3d-515ccfa0adf5-AP26132550947896.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[62],"class_list":["post-259187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259189,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259187\/revisions\/259189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}