Ban Zohran from attending New York’s 9/11 memorial – Latest News
“Get off my island!” and “Get out of here!” have been among the many milder jeers that assailed New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani when he attended a Staten Island NYPD gathering on Aug. 4. Hizzoner, who beforehand known as the NYPD a “rogue agency” that he wished to “defund,” smiled and waved however lasted much less than a New York minute earlier than he sheepishly fled the rostrum.
Mamdani’s Staten Island shame may show however a minor prelude to what awaits the democratic socialist mayor on September 11, when town will mourn the twenty fifth anniversary of that day’s barbaric suicide assaults, by which 19 Islamist maniacs turned business flights into reside bombs and killed themselves and a couple of,977 different people.
New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani consoles Anita Deblase, whose son James Deblase is lacking, on the website of the World Trade Center on Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2001, in New York. James Deblase, 44, labored for Cantor Fitzgerald on the World Trade Center. AFP by way of Getty Images
Despite impassioned pleas for Mamdani to remain away from this 12 months’s official ceremonies, together with from former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, who was in workplace on 9/11, the present mayor plans to show up anyway, telling a information convention that he “will proudly honor the families, the survivors, the first responders … by standing alongside them at this year’s 9/11 commemoration.”
Not too many of these heroes appear to need to stand alongside Mamdani, nevertheless. More than 98,000 people — together with many survivors and aggrieved relations — have signed a petition expressing “concern” that the mayor’s views and associations with terrorist sympathizers fail to show “respect for the victims, recognition of the gravity of the attacks, and a clear rejection of the ideologies that contributed to such violence.” Never thoughts that these are ideas any respectful particular person, not to mention the elected chief of our nation’s largest metropolis, would honor with out query. According to media stories, some relations have mentioned they won’t attend the ceremony if Mamdani is current.
The households have a level. It’s dangerous enough that Mamdani has repeatedly refused to sentence the incendiary phrase “globalize the intifada.” But his file on 9/11 solely will get more dismal.
In October 2025, he stood with Brooklyn imam Siraj Wahhaj, whom the Justice Department named as an unindicted coconspirator within the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. He was by no means charged, however he served as a character witness for the convicted terrorist the Blind Sheikh. Wahhaj known as him a “strong preacher of Islam.” Mamdani known as Wahhaj a “pillar of the Bed-Stuy community.”
Imam Siraj Wahhaj Anadolu Agency by way of Getty Images
Mamdani blamed the US authorities for radicalizing Anwar al-Awlaki, an al Qaeda chief killed in Yemen in a strike ordered by Barack Obama, posting that FBI surveillance of al-Awlaki “eventually led him to #alqaeda.”
This 12 months, Mamdani endorsed radical leftist congressional candidate Darializa Aria Chevalier, a fellow democratic socialist who organized with Columbia University’s Students for Justice in Palestine. She stood in entrance of the doorway to Hamilton Hall when pro-Palestine protestors took over the admin building. And she as soon as gloated about utilizing an American flag as a serviette.
Mamdani has additionally endorsed Aber Kawas, a democratic-socialist state senate candidate for Queens. Kawas known as 9/11 a manifestation of “capitalism and racism and White supremacy.” She doesn’t suppose radical Muslims owe an apology for 9/11, however she does suppose Americans must situation an “apology or reparations for genocides and for slavery.”
Ramzi Kassem Stephen Yang for the NY Post
Then there’s Mamdani’s relationship with the odious podcaster Hasan Piker, an admirer of Mao Zedong and the Soviet Union who mentioned “America deserved 9/11, dude.”
The mayor’s choose for metropolis chief counsel, Ramzi Kassem, defended Ahmed al-Darbi, an al Qaeda operative who pleaded guilty for plotting to bomb an oil tanker. More not too long ago, Kassem took on the case of Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian activist and spokesman for Columbia’s protests. In making the appointment, Mamdani praised Kassem for his “remarkable experience.”
Mamdani’s own dad, longtime Columbia professor Mahmood Mamdani, says suicide bombers must be thought of “a category of soldier rather than condemned and stigmatized” as barbarians
But now, because the solemn 9/11 anniversary approaches, the actual barbarism can be for Zohran Mamdani to showcase himself and his disgusting file on terrorism earlier than the survivors and heroes of America’s best tragedy. If he can not discover the knowledge to remain home or skip city, he must be banned from attending.
Paul du Quenoy is president of the Palm Beach Freedom Institute.
