New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani speaks at the Islamic Cultural Center of the Bronx mosque in New York. (AP)

US Vice President JD Vance has criticised New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani after Mamdani said his aunt stopped using the subway after the 9/11 attacks because she did not feel safe wearing a hijab. Mamdani’s comments were made while he was speaking about discrimination faced by Muslim New Yorkers.

Vance replied on X, saying Mamdani was suggesting that: “the real victim of 9/11 was his auntie who got some (allegedly) bad looks”.

Mamdani is the Democratic nominee for New York City mayor in the election to replace Mayor Eric Adams.

Speaking outside a Bronx mosque alongside Muslim community leaders, Mamdani said: “I want to speak to the memory of my

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