{"id":342603,"date":"2026-09-10T06:18:31","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T06:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/342603\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T06:18:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T06:18:31","slug":"nyc-councilwoman-says-mamdani-is-sending-a-message-to-osama-bin-laden-who-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/342603\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Councilwoman Says Mamdani Is Sending \u2018A Message To Osama bin Laden\u2019 \u2013 Who Is Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">New York City Councilwoman Vickie Paladino (R) slammed Mayor Zohrani Mamdani on Tuesday, hours after he signed a pair of executive orders regarding the Sept. 11 attacks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Republicans have expressed outrage at the city&#8217;s first Muslim mayor for planning to attend a <a data-ylk=\"slk:commemoration;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/mamdani-pressed-on-rudy-giuliani-questioning-his-patriotism-in-9-11-ceremony-jab\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">commemoration<\/a> of the 25th anniversary of the attacks. Attending such ceremonies is standard fare for New York mayors and other city politicians, but a group of 9\/11 family members and others has <a data-ylk=\"slk:urged;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/families-911-victims-message-mamdani-please-do-not-come-memorial-ceremony\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">urged<\/a> Mamdani not to attend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">One of those people is Paladino, who appeared on Tuesday&#8217;s edition of The Ingraham Angle. Last week, Mamdani <a data-ylk=\"slk:signed;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/mayors-office\/news\/2026\/09\/mayor-mamdani-to-declare-sept--11th-an-official--day-of-remembra\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">signed<\/a> a pair of 9\/11-related executive orders. The first establishes an annual day of remembrance and service on Sept. 11. The second enhances New York&#8217;s agency preparedness to thwart future attacks. During the signing ceremony, he <a data-ylk=\"slk:gave;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/tv\/i-am-disgusted-fox-news-contributor-who-joined-fbi-due-to-9-11-gets-emotional-while-railing-against-zohran-mamdani\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">gave<\/a> one of the pens to NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch, who gave it to Ramzi Kassem, the city&#8217;s chief legal counsel. Kassem was an attorney for al-Qaeda operative Ahmed al-Darbi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Symbolism,&#8221; host Laura Ingraham told Paladino, &#8220;it&#8217;s important to everyone, but it&#8217;s super important in the Islamic world, for Muslims. Symbols matter. Commemorative, it matters to people. But they&#8217;re defending his decision to give Ramzi Kassem the pen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ingraham read a statement from the mayor&#8217;s office stating that Kassem attended the signing ceremony &#8220;to perform his official responsibilities&#8221; and that he was &#8220;personally invested in these executive orders&#8221; as a New Yorker who was in the city on 9\/11.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I am sick to death of all of this,&#8221; Paladino said in response. &#8220;Sick to death of all of this. And I have tried\u2013 we have come out there. Today, I pounded that home so well. And I said, &#8216;This is enough.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Paladino later added:<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">We need to be able to see through this total, absolute farce that they&#8217;re trying to pawn off on New Yorkers and across the country. I&#8217;m telling you, this was symbolism. It was cryptic. But it was a message. The same way it&#8217;s a message when he goes down to 9\/11 \u2013 I hate to even say this, Laura \u2013 but you know, it&#8217;s a message to Osama bin Laden that, look, &#8220;We conquered New York.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">That&#8217;s how scary all of this really is, to each and every one of us. New Yorkers need to wake up. He won this election not with born-and-bred New Yorkers. He won this election with transplants, ages 18 to 30 years old, making promises he could never keep. So, I am furious.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Bin Laden was <a data-ylk=\"slk:killed;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/obamawhitehouse.archives.gov\/blog\/2011\/05\/02\/osama-bin-laden-dead\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">killed<\/a> by U.S. Navy SEALs during a 2011 raid on a safehouse in Abbottabad, Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Watch above via Fox News.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The post <a data-ylk=\"slk:NYC Councilwoman Says Mamdani Is Sending &#039;A Message To Osama bin Laden&#039; \u2013 Who Is Dead;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/tv\/nyc-councilwoman-says-mamdani-is-sending-a-message-to-osama-bin-laden-who-is-dead\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">NYC Councilwoman Says Mamdani Is Sending &#8216;A Message To Osama bin Laden&#8217; \u2013 Who Is Dead\u00a0<\/a> first appeared on <a data-ylk=\"slk:Mediaite;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Mediaite<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City Councilwoman Vickie Paladino (R) slammed Mayor Zohrani Mamdani on Tuesday, hours after he signed a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[32394,23720,1445,9,56,63,65,64,85934,41768,128489,128490,18412],"class_list":["post-342603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-executive-orders","tag-laura-ingraham","tag-mamdani","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-osama-bin-laden","tag-ramzi-kassem","tag-sept-11-attacks","tag-signing-ceremony","tag-vickie-paladino"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342603","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=342603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}