He pretends to be a victim of the events of September 11

How damn self so Zohran Mamdani’s chief takeaway The events of 9/11 supposedly sparked a horrific wave of “Islamophobia”: what absolute idiocy.

There is no doubt that ordinary Muslims do not bear responsibility for the extremists who carried out those terrorist attacks, which resulted in the deaths of approximately three thousand innocent people: the overwhelming majority of Americans were always aware of this fact, and acted accordingly.

There was no wave of anti-Muslim hate crimes after 9/11, neither in New York nor anywhere else.

Before and after September 11, the minority most Jews have always been the targets of hate in America and around the world, largely out of proportion to their numbers.

Note Mamdani’s experiences He was actually martyred.

He remembers how a teacher warned him that he might be bullied. since civilized region At the expensively liberal Bank Street Children’s School, his progressive teachers expected worse than their New York colleagues.

he an act no He remembers He’s actually being bullied, which is something he would definitely have brought up. Instead, he could only cite his aunt’s supposed decision to stop riding the subway “because she didn’t feel safe in her hijab.”

Maybe she really had such fears – but only Because activist groups like the Radical Council on American-Islamic Relations started right away warning The phenomenon of “Islamophobia” increased in the wake of the attacks.

like Veep J.D. Vance notesThis does not make it any less ridiculous that Mamdani treats his aunt as such central A victim of September 11 – and not in a city where thousands of families of all races and religions lost loved ones.

It was never there any There is a great deal of anti-Muslim harassment after 9/11, and certainly nothing that justifies the perceived concern about “Islamophobia” except among the staff of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, as well as liberals and leftists who promote it by treating it as an epidemic on the level of anti-Semitism.

Yes, Mamdani’s opponents have criticized him as an apologist for terrorism, because he is He is First: Refusing to denounce the toxic phrase “globalization of uprising”; diminish with Unindicted conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing; Promoting countless slanders against Israel and its defensive war in Gaza in response to the Hamas terrorist attacks of October 7, 2023, etc.

He is not being criticized for his faith: he is being criticized for his passive and aggressive support of terrorist factions, at least within Islam.

Rather than admit his hatred, he believes he can instead get away with playing the victim — and that the progressives who dominate New York politics and media will team up with him.

Cross your fingers that this outrageous bit of histrionics wakes up the voters he’s managed to fool so far: This guy is a horror hiding behind the good looks and the smile.