{"id":342679,"date":"2026-09-10T09:44:50","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T09:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/342679\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T09:44:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T09:44:50","slug":"nyc-mayor-mamdanis-attendance-of-9-11-commemoration-at-center-of-political-fight-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/342679\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Mayor Mamdani&#8217;s attendance of 9\/11 commemoration at center of political fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year\u2019s commemoration of the 9\/11 terror attacks on Friday is at the center of a political fight, with former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani calling on current Mayor Zohran Mamdani not to attend and making false claims about Islam, Mamdani\u2019s faith.<\/p>\n<p>\nMamdani has said he will attend the ceremony, as he did last year.<\/p>\n<p>Here &amp; Now\u2018s Robin Young speaks with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brooklyn.edu\/faculty-staff\/moustafa-bayoumi\/\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Moustafa Bayoumi<\/a> \u2014 an English professor at Brooklyn College and author of books about being Arab in the U.S. \u2014 about the debate and Islamophobia in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>\nThis article was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbur.org\/hereandnow\/2026\/09\/09\/mamdani-9-11-commemoration\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WBUR.org.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2026 WBUR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This year\u2019s commemoration of the 9\/11 terror attacks on Friday is at the center of a political fight,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-342679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342679","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=342679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}