Mamdani’s Islamophobia canard

Zohran Mamdani has a hard time keeping it together when he thinks about Sept. 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 he would have us believe. In giving remarks about supposedly rampant Islamophobia in the closing days of the race, Mamdani paused — seemingly overcome with emotion — when he recalled that his aunt gave up riding the train aft