Source: International Business Times
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani looks ontrack during the 2026 USATF Outdoor Track & Field Championships at Icahn Stadium on July 25, 2026 in New York City. Caleb Bowlin/Getty Images A group of September 11 families wants New York's first Muslim mayor kept away from the ceremony marking a quarter-century since the attacks, an extraordinary demand aimed at a sitting mayor who has already stood at Ground Zero in mourning three times this year. The families are circulating a petition urging the organisers of the 25th-anniversary commemoration to exclude Mayor Zohran Mamdani, calling him an 'unwelcome guest' whose past statements and associations, they argue, are incompatible with the solemnity of the day.
