We are fast approaching the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, and we somehow find ourselves in the absurd position of having two leading voices in the Democrat Party, both Muslims, competing to see who can blame the U.S. more for the atrocities of the day.
What a world, eh?
Let's start with Abdul El-Sayed, the Democrat candidate who'd like to be the next U.S. senator from Michigan, since he's been making headlines for all the wrong reasons. For instance, he is having trouble explaining a series of old social media posts in which he referenced 9/11 while trying – and failing – to make a political point about things like COVID and America's response to terrorism.
CBS News reported this week that they had verified two previously unreported posts that El-Sayed later deleted. In both, he used the nearly 3,000 Americans murdered on September 11 as a comparison point for the COVID death toll.
Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed's deleted tweets on Sept. 11 attacks invite scrutiny of past remarks, via @cbszak https://t.co/eJTFpEI7pC
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) August 31, 2026
No. Just no.
It gets worse. El-Sayed once wrote that he mourned the roughly 3,000 killed and 6,000 injured in destruction carried out "in the name of my faith." But, then came the pivot: the following day, he said, he would mourn roughly one million lives lost and devastation in three countries carried out "in the name of my country."
His false equivalency is awfully revealing.
Then there's his Hasan Piker problem, one entirely of his own making. Abdul's bestie – he can try to run from their relationship, but that ship has sailed – once said, "America deserved 9/11 … We totally brought it on ourselves.” Politicians are known by the company they keep, and El-Sayed keeps very poor company, indeed.
That brings us to New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
The 9/11 families have told him outright that he's not welcome at Ground Zero ceremonies on the day of the anniversary, even starting a petition to keep him away. And the 600-member Port Authority Retired Police Association – whose department lost 37 officers on September 11 – has formally asked Mamdani not to attend, warning that his presence would cause "profound pain" and risk turning a solemn occasion into something grotesquely political.
That is a pretty crazy position for the mayor of New York City to find himself in, yet here we are.
But it didn't come out of thin air. Mamdani has repeatedly approached 9/11 through the lens of what could have happened to Muslims afterwards, most memorably during his mayoral campaign when he spoke about a relative who was afraid to ride the subway wearing a hijab in the aftermath of the attacks. An relative we're not even sure existed, but his point still stands: Muslim Americans are the real victims of 9/11.
And Mamdani’s weird annual 9/11 tributes don’t help his case one bit.
Note no mention of how they died and who was responsible. No mention that they were innocent civilians starting their work day and first responders who went to save them.
— Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) August 31, 2026
No mention of the highjacking of the airplanes that were flown into the World Trade Center. No mention of… https://t.co/YjRTp3htZo
Note no mention of how they died and who was responsible. No mention that they were innocent civilians starting their work day and first responders who went to save them.
No mention of the highjacking of the airplanes that were flown into the World Trade Center. No mention of murder or terrorism or who was responsible. Just a benign statement that a few thousand people died that day. He seems to imply they died of natural causes.
Now can you understand why the families don’t want @NYCMayor Mamdani at the 9/11 memorial?
For years, he has apparently posted nearly identical messages mourning those who died that day, then immediately turned that remembrance into a “millions who suffered in the wars that followed” tirade. In 2024, for example, he wrote: “We mourn our neighbors who died that day. The countless first responders and families whose lives were forever changed. The millions who suffered in the wars that followed.”
Something seems to be missing there, no? For instance, any references to Islamic terrorism, al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, hijacked planes, or even who murdered those Americans.
September 11 is too sacred a day to be marred by these two grievance-mongers who were mere children back then and clearly can't be bothered as adults to admit the truth about what happened.
On this one, the grownups need to be in charge. They both need to stay far, far away.
