Petition on Mamdani and 9/11 Events Delivered to City Hall as Hochul Keeps Defending Him
“On this 25th anniversary, we should honor those we lost by coming together again as New Yorkers and Americans. The Mayor of New York City will be there, as he should be.”
For weeks now, a movement has been underway to get organizers to persuade New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani not to attend 9/11 remembrance events on the grounds that his appearance would be too upsetting and painful for some of the family members.
Some of those family members started a petition that noted concerns about how the mayor “blamed the United States for radicalizing Anwar al-Awlaki, an al-Qaeda propagandist linked to the 9/11 hijackers.” Further, they noted Mamdani “appointed Ramzi Kassem, who previously represented Ahmed al-Darbi (convicted in an al-Qaeda tanker bombing plot), as New York City’s chief counsel” and “praised Brooklyn Imam Siraj Wahhaj, who has been linked to radical Islam, [and] was named as an alleged co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.”
Amid reports of the petition circulating at the time, Mamdani declared during a press conference that “I will proudly honor the families, the survivors, the first responders forever impacted by that horrific terror attack by standing alongside them at this year’s 9/11 commemoration, reaffirming that we will never forget the solemn day felt by all of us who call this city home, and frankly, by all of us who call this country home.”
As Legal Insurrection reported, some petition organizers and signers held a public gathering on Tuesday, where they discussed the position and issued another call for Mamdani not to attend the ceremonies.
In an update to that story, the petition, which reportedly includes the signatures of “at least 300” family members, was delivered to City Hall on Tuesday:
Family members of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks delivered a petition with more than 100,000 signatures to New York City Hall on Tuesday, urging New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani not to attend this week’s ceremony marking the 25th anniversary of the attacks.
New York City Council member Joann Ariola stated that she “stood on the steps of City Hall with the loved ones of many victims of the 9/11 terror attacks” and “demanded that Mayor Mamdani stay away from this year’s ceremonies.”
Ariola said the group handed the petition to a member of Chief Counsel Ramzi Kassem’s staff. Kassem previously represented Ahmed al-Darbi, who pleaded guilty before a U.S. military commission to terrorism-related charges stemming from an al-Qaeda plot to attack commercial shipping.
Meanwhile, Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) continues rushing to Mamdani’s defense, as she did multiple times yesterday. First in a tweet:
Division should not prevail over the spirit of unity that brought us together after September 11th.
On this 25th anniversary, we should honor those we lost by coming together again as New Yorkers and Americans.
The Mayor of New York City will be there, as he should be. https://t.co/k216IcmhzJ
— Governor Kathy Hochul (@GovKathyHochul) September 8, 2026
And then in condemnation of former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s criticism of Mamdani’s insistence on attending the events, and the ex-mayor’s insinuation that Mamdani shared the views of the 9/11 terrorists:
Gov. Kathy Hochul called Giuliani’s comments “wildly inappropriate,” saying the 25th anniversary should be a time for New Yorkers to come together.
“This is a moment in our time we should be united as a people,” Hochul said. “Twenty-five years of pain and sorrow for so many individuals and families. So many first responders, the firemen, doctors are still living at the trauma, and many times the illnesses. This is a time when people should be welcome to come together in our collective grief, memory, honoring those people, not trying to divide us. That’s abhorrent.”
As I’ve noted before, I can only imagine what family members go through every year around the time of anniversary services. To have to be subjected to an America-hating/blaming terrorist sympathizer like Mamdani pretending to show support and sympathy for all they’ve had to endure over the last 25 years is just too much to expect them to have to sit through.
Remember, in addition to the concerns mentioned in the petition, Mamdani has tried to portray Muslims as the true victims of 9/11. As an example, the speech he gave in 2025 as a mayoral nominee about “Islamophobia” after 9/11 and how his purported “aunt” was supposedly too afraid to take the subway “because she did not feel safe in her hijab.”
Predictably, his convenient story fell apart, with Mamdani clarifying that the alleged woman wasn’t actually his aunt. Incredibly but not surprisingly, he accused those who questioned the story of… you guessed it, Islamophobia. Because the problem was not, of course, that he lied; it’s that his critics had the audacity to point it out.
This guy has chutzpah on steroids, so it’s par for the course for him to disrespectfully ignore the wishes of the families who have made clear they don’t want him at the 9/11 remembrance ceremonies. But one would have hoped for a little more backbone from Hochul on the subject, considering that, unlike Mamdani, she was actually born and raised in New York State.
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With all due respect to some of the families, Mamdani is the Mayor of New York City. He’s pretty much obligated to go. This was always going to be part of his role when he was voted into office, and there is nothing, anyone can do about it. Unfortunately.
As someone once said, elections have consequences, and this is a consequence that people are going to have to deal with….
“Mamdani is the Mayor of New York City. He’s pretty much obligated to go.”
It’s just one more duty that apparently always only fails in one direction.
In 2002, a rally in Tucson was assembled by the Matt Salmon for Governor campaign and the NRA, with Charlton Heston giving the keynote., and scheduled for one week before the election. Just prior to the event, a loonie who was failing his classes murdered three of his nursing professors at U of A. Matt Salmon chose to snub his own event.
(The following week, he also failed to get elected.)
Not the same thing at all. If a candidate for office decides that attending a campaign event will lose him more votes than it gains him then he has no obligation to attend it.
It’s just one more duty that apparently always only fails in one direction
Well, entropy does dictate that time favors disorder, so don’t be surprised if politics, generally speaking, tends to dictate unpleasant outcomes..
Keep in mind that many, if not most, of the victims of 9-11 are not New Yorkers (at least not from NYC), and played no part in the latest election which he won by a slim margin. And that most of his voters were either not alive during 9-11 or too young to remember or moved to New York recently. So Mamdani doesn’t actually represent the families of the victims of 9-11 and first responders and all those who do remember that fateful day. Let’s all keep in mind the heroes of 9-11 and focus on the values that make us Americans in the true sense of the word. Also, Mamdani is OK with offending Jewish New Yorkers by shunning the Israel Day Parade and siding with Hamas (a radical Islamic terrorist organization, not unlike Al Quada), rather than Israel.
“Mamdani doesn’t actually represent the families of the victims of 9-11 and first responders and all those who do remember that fateful day.”
I disagree
As the duly elected Mayor of New York City, he actually does represent all those things, and it’s exactly why his presence is causing so much controversy.
People understand that this is a trophy for Muslims, whether they admit it or not, which they won’t. They understand very well what is going on, without anything ever being said, at least not publicly.
At this stage, it doesn’t really matter who voted for him and why. All of that needed to be fleshed out before the election.
For whatever reason, he won the election and was elected Mayor.
Personally, I think it’s shameful, but I’m not surprised.
People, generally speaking, do not care nor take an interest in their country any more. Their concern for what they see, stops at the end of their nose.
“Division should not prevail over the spirit of unity that brought us together after 911.”
It didn’t bring us closer together according to
Mamdani who believes Muslims were the real victims of 911.
“I want to speak to the memory of my aunt who stopped taking the subway after 9/11 because she did not feel safe in her hijab,” Mamdani said in a speech on Islamophobia.
He described being advised by his Muslim uncle to downplay his religion in public. “It’s a lesson,” he said, “that people like his uncle learned after 9/11.”
A person who believes that Muslims were the real victims of 9/11 wants to help us come together.
“What terrifies me is if ISIS were to detonate a nuclear device and kill 50 million Americans. Imagine the backlash against peaceful Muslims?”
–NORM MACDONALD
If such a thing happened, the main priority would be to ensure the site was cleared quickly in order that a mosque could be constructed there.
No need to clear it. Just build the mosque. It will he a glowing symbol to those in the area.
Honor the families. Screw the “he’s obliged to attend” nonsense. Mamdani has no business attending a ceremony for which he has zero respect. Some diffident voices here find that hard to grasp, for reasons that themselves hard to grasp (sort of). But so be it, The rest of us will remember that day, and honor the victims and their families, and our country.
“But one would have hoped for a little more backbone from Hochul on the subject”
It’s that hijab. Once it gets those tendrils into the top of your spine, it’s Pod City all the way to the nursing home.
The hijab launches itself at the face, wrapping its muscular tail around the neck securing its grip with finger-like appendages in order to paralyze and implant the muslim embryo within the host.
This is why Hochul needs to be nuked from orbit. It is the only way to be sure.
I gotta say that I am not a Mandami fan, and that’s no major secret. His shamelessly opportunistic document release to curry favor with the 9/11 crowd is irrelevant to the bigger issue. IT IS a huge concern and a story that is worth covering here…put aside Mr. self-promotion’s antics for a moment.
Yes, it makes Giuliani and officials under the Bush admin look really bad. Who cares? It needs to be covered. These first responders are absolute heroes who were thrown into a terrible situation! In the aftermath, after the toxic dust settled, the corrupt government thought about dollars and cents instead of their sense of right, wrong, and human decency. Jon Stewart is actually right on this one, and I hope enough centrists and conservatives have the courage to say it!
Is whatever Jon Stewart said public knowledge to everyone but me?
Nope. I’m out here in the dark with you. Of course that may be because I actively avoid being burdened by anything Jon Stewart has to say.
“…the 25th anniversary should be a time for New Yorkers to come together.”
I look forward to she n Hizzonor showing us how.
Ha.
Ha, ha.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ho, heeeee.
Sorry. Sorry. I just couldn’t hold that one… Snerk.
They should start a second petition, asking that Hochul stay away as well.
She’s an embarrassment.
On this 25th anniversary, we should honor those we lost by coming together again as
New Yorkers and Americans(Woke Leftists and Al Qaeda supporters).The Mayor of مدينة نيويورك (madinat niwyurk) will be there, as he should be.
Allahu Akbar & #$%^& America
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There fixed it for the Governess.
She is a coward.
The families should turn their backs and completely shun the Mooslim communist during the even or maybe just not go at all. They’re in a tough situation.
Shun Monster Mamdani, jeer the Monster, but do not let him take possession of the day. Show up and pay your respects all while turning your backs.
Making this about Mamdani v the memory of of those in the 9/11 attacks is not productive. Mamdani, like it or not, was elected as NYC Mayor, his attendance at ceremonial events within NYC is part of his scope of duties. Once he’s there at the event then folks are free to turn their backs or otherwise make their opinions about his attendance known but trying to somehow prevent his attendance is not gonna work and every victory he has raises his stock with the radical leftist wokiestas.
When Mamdummy and his vile, Islamofascist/Mohammedan supremacist ilk are capable of ceasing their perpetually dishonest, fallacious and contrived Islamo-victimology antics and propaganda rhetoric, and can openly acknowledge that Muslims are not historical or contemporary victims, but, rather, the perpetrators of innumerable invasions, conquests, murders, genocides, rapes, enslavements, forced conversations and other assorted atrocities against non-Muslim peoples and lands, over 1,400-plus years, then he can be welcomed at 9/11 remembrance events.
I wonder if Gov Hocow will wear her hijab to the 911 event?
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