{"id":19007,"date":"2025-10-27T21:22:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T21:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/19007\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T21:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T21:22:09","slug":"zohran-mamdani-didnt-tell-the-whole-truth-about-his-hijab-wearing-aunt-who-feared-for-safety-post-9-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/19007\/","title":{"rendered":"Zohran Mamdani didn\u2019t tell the whole truth about his hijab-wearing &#8216;aunt&#8217; who feared for safety post-9\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201caunt\u201d who Zohran Mamdani said was <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/24\/us-news\/zohran-mamdani-accuses-cuomo-other-opponents-of-islamophobia-after-being-branded-antisemitic-over-anti-israel-views\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">too afraid to wear her hijab<\/a> on the subways after 9\/11 is actually a deceased distant cousin, he clarified Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The socialist mayoral front-runner made the revelation during a press conference after critics seized on his story, sharing photos on social media of an aunt of his without a hijab.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was speaking about Zehra fuhi, my father\u2019s cousin, who passed away a few years ago,\u201d Mamdani told reporters. Fuhi means paternal aunt in Urdu and Hindi.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37500237\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/newspress-collage-6wsd23gqm-1761596256361.jpg\" alt=\"An image collage containing 1 images, Image 1 shows Zohran Mamdani\" class=\"wp-image-37500237\"  \/>Zohran Mamdani claimed his \u201caunt\u201d was afraid to ride NYC\u2019s subway after 9\/11.<\/p>\n<p>Questions began to mount on social media after\u00a0a tearful Mamdani on Friday recalled\u00a0how his \u201caunt\u201d made the painful decision to stop taking the subway in New York City after facing Islamophobia in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks.<\/p>\n<p>The comments themselves also drew backlash, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/25\/us-news\/jd-vance-slams-mamdani-over-9-11-comment-about-his-auntie\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">including from Vice President JD Vance<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to Zohran the real victim of 9\/11 was his auntie who got some (allegedly) bad looks,\u201d he railed in a post to X.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37500258\" width=\"590\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/masuma-mamdani-3.jpg\" alt=\"Masuma Mamdani, aunt of Zohran Mamdani\" class=\"wp-image-37500258\"  \/>Mamdani\u2019s only living aunt Masuma Mamdani (pictured) was living in Tanzania during the 9\/11 terror attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Internet sleuths later claimed that Mamdani\u2019s only living aunt does not appear to wear a hijab \u2014 and lived in Tanzania on 9\/11 \u2014 prompting the Democratic nominee to do damage control Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the takeaway from my more than 10-minute address about Islamophobia in this race and in this city, to be the question of my aunt, tells you everything you need to know about (ex. Gov Andrew) Cuomo and his inability to reckon with a crisis of his own making.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is a breaking story. Please check back for updates<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The \u201caunt\u201d who Zohran Mamdani said was too afraid to wear her hijab on the subways after 9\/11&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5301,13029,57,9,11,10,563,87,58,82],"class_list":["post-19007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-9-11","tag-hijab","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-nyc-mayoral-election-2025","tag-politics","tag-us-news","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19007","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=19007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}