In a city still scarred by the ashes of 9/11, where 2,977 souls were vaporized in an act of jihadist barbarism, Zohran Mamdani, the self-proclaimed Democratic Socialist frontrunner for NYC mayor, decided Friday was the perfect day to audition for an Oscar. Outside a Bronx mosque, as early voting kicked off, the 34-year-old assemblyman choked up over his aunt's post-9/11 subway woes, painting himself and New York's 1 million Muslims as the true victims of that fateful Tuesday. "My aunt stopped taking the subway after September 11th because she did not feel safe in her hijab," Mamdani whimpered, pausing for dramatic effect like a bad Lifetime movie reenactment.
Spare us the violins, Zohran. While your aunt fretted over glares (real or imagined), nearly 3,000 New Yorkers, firefighters charging into infernos, office workers leaping from burning towers, passengers turned into human missiles, were reduced to rubble by al-Qaeda fanatics screaming "Allahu Akbar." Those victims didn't just "stop taking the subway"; they stopped breathing. Entire families were erased. But sure, let's center the conversation on hijab discomfort in a city that bent over backward to protect its Muslim neighbors from backlash, even as the FBI surveilled mosques to prevent more slaughter.
Jon Gabriel nailed it on X: "2,976 people stopped taking the subway after 9/11 because they were murdered." Greg Price's sarcasm cuts deeper: "Yes, she was the real victim of 9/11."
This is just another one of Zohran's political stunt: Mamdani’s leading Andrew Cuomo 47% to 29% in the latest poll, so he’s ditching talk about rent and crime to play the victim card: cry “Islamophobia!” and watch the progressive donations pour in.
He’s even slamming his opponents, Cuomo, Eric Adams, Curtis Sliwa or “normalizing” anti-Muslim hate. He pointed to Cuomo laughing at a radio host’s joke that Mamdani would “cheer” another 9/11. Yeah, that was a cheap shot. Cuomo’s no angel, and the laugh was dumb.
But let’s not act like Mamdani’s tears are pure when he’s got some serious baggage of his own.
Just days before this performance, Mamdani was all smiles, arm-in-arm with Imam Siraj Wahhaj at a Brooklyn mosque, calling him a “community pillar.” Wahhaj? The same guy who testified as a character witness for the “Blind Sheikh,” the mastermind behind the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and plots to blow up New York landmarks. Wahhaj was named an unindicted co-conspirator in that case. He rails against “post-colonial” America and flirts with Nation of Islam separatism. But Mamdani treats him like a hero.
