9/11 Families Request Mamdani to Skip Ceremony After Recently Honoring Al Qaeda Suspects Lawyer

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As America remembers 25 years since the September 11th terror attacks, there's an effort to keep New York City's first Muslim mayor, Zohran Mamdani, away from Friday's ceremony at Ground Zero. Their petition has approximately 109,000 signatures. It asks organizers to not include Mamdani and questions the mayor's respect for the victims due to his reluctance to condemn phrases such as "globalize the intifada," adding that he's "insufficiently critical of extremist ideologies." Tuesday at New York City Hall, relatives of 9/11 victims held pictures of family members lost at the World Trade Center that day. They said the mayor is not welcome Friday at the Ground Zero ceremony honoring their loved ones. "My message to Mayor Mamdani is, dude, we don't want you to come," said Jeanette Pucci-Pick, who lost her father on 9/11. Critics point to last week's 9/11 ceremony when Mamdani handed a symbolic pen to city attorney Ramzi Kassem, who previously represented a convicted Al-Qaeda member wh

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