How self-damning that Zohran Mamdani’s chief takeaway from 9/11 is that it supposedly triggered a horrible wave of “Islamophobia”: What utter dreck.
Of course ordinary Muslims bear no blame for the extremists who carried out those terror attacks, killing some 3,000 innocents: The overwhelming majority of Americans have always understood that, and acted accordingly.
No wave of anti-Muslim hate crimes followed 9/11, not in New York nor anywhere else.
Before and after 9/11, the minority most singled out for hate in America and across the world has always been Jews, in vast disproportion to their numbers.
Notice the experiences Mamdani actually cited .
He recalled how a teacher warned him he might face bullying. Since he attended the ultraliberal, pricey Bank Street School fo

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