New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani talks to reporters in New York, Monday, Oct. 27, 2025. AP
Zohran Mamdani has a hard time keeping it together when he thinks about 9/11 and its aftermath.
Not — judging by his performance the other day — when he contemplates the impact of two screaming jetliners on the Twin Towers; nor when he remembers the sacrifice of hundreds of courageous firefighters that day; nor when he thinks about the toxic, smoldering ruins where there had once been a thriving commercial center.
No, the front-running candidate for New York City mayor loses it when he recalls how someone may have looked askance at his hijab-wearing aunt .
Or so would he have us believe.
In giving remarks about supposedly rampant Islamophobia in the closing days of the race,

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