Zohran Mamdani clarifies which 'aunt' lived in fear after 9/11 over hijab, people call it weird

After New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani clarified that the 9/11 anecdote was not about his Masuma Mamdani , his father's sister, but someone called Zehra Fui who was his father's cousin and is not alive any more, a new debate started on social media delving into who all brown people address as aunts. "Your 'father's cousin' is not your aunt," New York Post's Miranda Devine wrote, only to receive a strong pushback from many Asian-origin commentators that a father's cousin is indeed an aunt. In a recent speech where Mamdani spoke about Islamophobia, Mamdani said his aunt felt unsafe in her hijab in the US after 9/11. The comment became a laughing stock for MAGA as they derided how Mamdani made 9/11 about his family, projecting his aunt as the real victim of 9/11.