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Mamdani floats sob story about his aunt not feeling safe in a hijab after Sept 11

October 27, 2025 | | Print Article

New York City mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani was roasted after a performative speech about his aunt not “feeling safe” in her hijab after September 11.

The socialist dramatically held back tears as he recounted his late aunt’s plight on being a victim of Islamophobia during a press conference, as he spoke “to the Muslims in New York City.”

“I 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,” the 34-year-old Queens Assemblyman said in remarks that unleashed brutal memes on social media.

“According to Zohran the real victim of 9/11 was his auntie who got some (allegedly) bad looks,” Vice President JD Vance wrote in a post on X.

Mamdani fired back, calling the comments “cheap jokes” during an interview on MSNBC.

“This is all the Republican Party has to offer,” he said, “Cheap jokes about Islamophobia so as to not have to recognize what people are living through, attempts to pit people’s humanity against each other.”

Mamdani came under criticism for his association with an unindicted imam who was a potential co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center terrorist bomb attack. The Brooklyn imam, Siraj Wahhaj, endorsed Mamdani in the Democratic primary.

Poised to become the first Muslim mayor of the Big Apple, Mamdani’s claims about his aunt went viral and sparked fiery backlash. Some social media users called him out on the veracity of his story.

“This wasn’t a misunderstanding. It was a fabrication — a calculated manipulation of truth,” claimed one X user named Afshune Emrani.

Many X users took Mamdani’s remarks as a launching pad for scores of mocking memes.

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