New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani talks to reporters while trying to canvas in New York, Monday, Oct. 27, 2025. AP

New York City was not a cauldron of anti-Islamic hate post-9/11, as cynically declared by mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani .

Quite the opposite.

I remember those dark days after nearly 3,000 souls of all races and ethnicities were murdered by plane-hijacking savages on Sept. 11, 2001.

Good people of this city were determined not to let their grief turn ugly.

I lived at the time near a section of Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn that is home to one of America’s largest concentrations of Muslims.

No one attacked, harassed or as much as flung dirty looks at those wearing Muslim garb, as Mamdani disgracefully asserted.

No.

We worried about the people we lived

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