New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani recently said her aunt stopped taking the subway after 9/11 because she did not feel safe in her hijab. When Mamdani said this, he had tears in his eyes, but he became a butt of banter for Republicans as they mocked Mamdani for making 9/11 about his aunt. Vice President JD Vance mocked and wrote: “According to Zohran, the real victim of 9.11 was his auntie who got some (allegedly) bad looks.”Journalist Mehdi Hasan criticized JD Vance’s comment and said he was mocking “Brown pople”, despite being married to one. Mehdi Hasan did not mention Muslim in his post as he wrote: “Imagine being married to a Brown woman and having mixed-race kids and then publicly mocking other Brown people as they talk publicly and emotionally about their experience of racism. Vance is just a bad person.”Donald Trump’s ally, far-right activist Laura Loomer, waded into the controversy and blatantly wrote that Mamdani and Usha Vance are not Brown falling in the same category. Loomer said JD Vance’s wife Usha Vance is not a Muslim. Going a step further, Loomer added that if Usha Vance were a Muslim, JD Vance would have never become the Vice President because he would never have the MAGA support. “If she was, he never would have been Vice President because MAGA isn’t going to ever support a Muslim being in the White House. Do you think Hindus and Muslims are the same?” Laura Loomer wrote.
Mamdani reacts to ‘cheap’ Islamophobia
Zohran Mamdani reacted to JD Vance’s post and said: “This is all the Republican Party has to offer.” “Cheap jokes about Islamophobia so as not to have to recognize what people are living through, attempts to pit peoples’ humanity against each other,” Mamdani said to MSNBC.
