Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani didn't want Mayor Zohran Mamdani at Friday’s ceremony marking 25 years since the September 11 attacks. “It offends me that he’s coming,” Giuliani told Newsmax last Sunday. He went further, comparing Mamdani, who is Muslim, with the 9/11 hijackers and claiming that Muslims “want to dominate us.”
A Muslim mayor attending a memorial for an Islamist terrorist attack is no more contradictory than a dog owner attending a memorial for violence committed by another dog owner. Those determined to bark up the Islamophobic tree will, of course, do so.