Twenty-four years ago it would have seemed unimaginable. Americans stood in horror watching the World Trade Center collapse—2,753 innocent people murdered by Islamist terrorists. Now, incredibly, a radical Muslim is poised to become New York City’s mayor.

Zohran Mamdani’s rise could be an American success story—proof our country isn’t the racist place the Left claims it is. But his politics make that impossible.

He’s refused to condemn the antisemitic chant “globalize the intifada.”

He’s been photographed with a potential co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. And one of his associates claimed America deserved 9/11. 

When critics raise concerns, Mamdani and his allies cry “Islamophobia.” But it’s not bigotry to reject hatred and extremism—or to remember the lives lost on 9/11.