Zohran Mamdani has come under fire after a speech he delivered outside a Bronx mosque, in which he said he wanted to \u201cspeak to the memory of my aunt who stopped taking the subway after September 11th because she did not feel safe in her hijab.\u201d<\/p>\n
Some took the comment to indicate he did not properly consider the nearly 3,000 who died during the terrorist attacks.<\/p>\n
Mamdani began his speech by directly addressing commentary from fellow New York mayoral candidates Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa, who he said have each made Islamophobic statements<\/a> in recent days.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd every day, Super PAC ads imply that I am a terrorist or mock the way I eat,\u201d he added. \u201cPush polls that ask New Yorkers questions like whether they support invented proposals to make halal food mandatory. Or political cartoons that represent my candidacy as an airplane hurtling towards the World Trade Center.\u201d<\/p>\n Instead, he chose to focus on something else: his experiences, and those of people he knows.<\/p>\n \u201cI want to speak to the memory of my aunt who stopped taking the subway after September 11th because she did not feel safe in her hijab. I want to speak to the Muslim who works for our city, whether they teach in our schools or walk the beat for the NYPD,\u201d Mamdani said. \u201cNew Yorkers who all make daily sacrifices for the city they call home, only to see their leaders spit in their face. I want to speak to every child who grows up here, marked as the other, who is randomly selected in a way that never quite feels random, who feels that they carry a stain that can never be cleaned.\u201d<\/p>\n The note about his aunt struck a negative chord with many, including Lux Capital cofounder Josh Wolfe, who wrote via X, \u201cThe moment Mamdani crashed his campaign with this bulls\u2013t. We are new yorkers. This is phony as s\u2013t,\u201d and a man named Greg Price, who sarcastically noted on the same platform that Mamdani\u2019s aunt \u201cwas the real victim of 9\/11.\u201d<\/p>\n His comment also caught the attention of JD Vance, who wrote on X, \u201cAccording to Zohran the real victim of 9\/11 was his auntie who got some (allegedly) bad looks.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cTo be Muslim in New York is to expect indignity, but indignity does not make us distinct. There are many New Yorkers who face it. It is the tolerance of that indignity that does,\u201d Mamdani also said. \u201cSince I announced my candidacy for mayor one year ago yesterday, I have sought to be the candidate fighting for every single New Yorker, not simply the Muslim candidate. I\u2019ve carried these indignities with me each moment of this race, doing so all the while as the first major Muslim candidate in the history of our city.\u201d<\/p>\n Watch Mamdani\u2019s speech in the video above.<\/p>\n The post Zohran Mamdani Accused of Ignoring \u2018Real Victims\u2019 of 9\/11 After Bronx Mosque Speech | Video<\/a> appeared first on TheWrap<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zohran Mamdani has come under fire after a speech he delivered outside a Bronx mosque, in which he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[80,128,12321,154,9,24,63,129,131,130,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-17852","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-andrew-cuomo","9":"tag-bronx","10":"tag-bronx-mosque","11":"tag-curtis-sliwa","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-the-bronx","16":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","17":"tag-the-bronx-news","18":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}