New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) and former Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) shook hands during the 9/11 commemoration ceremony at Ground Zero, a show of unity after Giuliani called on Mamdani not to attend the memorial.
Giuliani, who was mayor during the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, told Newsmax earlier this week, “Having lost friends there, and being very close to many of the families, it offends me that he’s coming.”
“Frankly, whatever he’d like to say, he doesn’t agree that Sept. 11 was an Islamic terrorist attack on the United States of America,” Giuliani said in the Sunday interview.
Giuliani’s criticism was heavily tinged with anti-Muslim sentiment and false claims about Mamdani’s beliefs.
“They have every desire to take us over. This is not, they want to be just another religion, they want to dominate us,” Giuliani said of Muslims. “Mamdani is a clear supporter of that.”