Fact checkers swarm after sobbing radical claims his aunt stopped riding the NYC subway because she ‘did not feel safe in her hijab’
Zohran Mamdani, the extreme left-wing Israel-hating trust fund kid running for mayor of New York City, sobbed like a girl last week during a speech about so-called Islamophobia. Mamdani lashed out at his political opponents for noticing his ties to radical Islamic preachers, his embrace of violent anti-Semitic rhetoric, and his father’s seething contempt for America. He suggested the real victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks were Muslims, especially his aunt, who “stopped taking the subway after September 11th because she did not feel safe in her hijab.”
Doing what comes naturally, mainstream journalists accepted the radical’s claim at face value. But that is precisely why no one trusts the mainstream media. Independent fact-checkers, seeking only the truth, pounced on Mamdani’s sob story. They uncovered evidence suggesting that the aunt in question, Masuma Mamdani, did not wear a hijab and lived in Tanzania between 1999 and 2003, where she studied sexually transmitted diseases.
The New York Times published an article over the weekend portraying Mamdani as the victim of Islamophobia after Vice President J.D. Vance criticized his speech. The Times also suggested it was Islamophobic for Vance to mention Mamdani’s recent meeting with Siraj Wahhaj, a radical Islamic preacher the Times described as a “well-known imam in Brooklyn.” Wahhaj is also an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, and has denounced homosexuality as a “disease” of American society.
Hundreds of nontraditional journalistic commentators weighed in on social media after the truth sleuths alleged that Mamdani might have made up the story about his aunt to gin up public sympathy for his plight as a rich Muslim in New York City. It’s worth noting that Mamdani has a history of lying for personal gain. He falsely identified as “Black or African American” on his Columbia University application, and admitted making “impossible” promises during his run for student body president at the elite Bronx High School of Science.
Here are some of the best responses—from both sides of the political spectrum—to Mamdani’s latest controversy. Enjoy!
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