Twenty-five years ago, nearly 3,000 innocent souls were brutally murdered in the September 11th terrorist attacks. Their families, friends, and an entire nation were left with an enduring scar. Yet, in a stunning display of revisionist history and corporate media bias, The New York Times has decided the *real* victims of 9/11 were — and continue to be — Muslims.

One article from the Times, penned by Maya King and Jeffrey C. Mays, carried the telling headline, "Facing Islamophobia, Mamdani Keeps Focus on 9/11 Victims." The piece goes on to claim that New York’s first Muslim mayor, Mr. Mamdani, is navigating a "delicate dynamic," facing "hostility and suspicion" from "right-wing factions of the Republican Party" simply because of his faith.

Husein Yatabarry, executive director of the Muslim Community Network, echoed this sentiment, quoted as saying, "there’s a right-wing angst to bring back that level of Islamophobia against prominent Muslims in political life or even in regular daily life." King and Mays then detail the "added layer of pressure and scrutiny" Mamdani supposedly endures, recounting his childhood in the U.S. and his perception of being marked as an 'other' after 9/11.

But perhaps the "pressure and scrutiny" surrounding Mayor Mamdani’s role in 9/11 anniversary events has less to do with alleged "Islamophobia" and everything to do with his own documented associations and viewpoints.

Consider, for instance, Mamdani’s public praise for Imam Siraj Wahhaj, whom he called "one of the nation’s foremost Muslim leaders and a pillar of the Bed-Stuy community." Wahhaj, it turns out, was a character witness for Omar Abdel Rahman, convicted mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, and fundraised for El Sayyid Nosair, who was convicted of seditious conspiracy in connection with that same terror attack.

Or perhaps the legitimate anger and grief stem from Mamdani's choice to associate with figures like leftist streamer Hasan Piker, who notoriously declared that "America deserved 9/11." Such affiliations certainly paint a different picture than the one the Times attempts to craft.

Then there's the disturbing insight from Mamdani’s own father, Mahmood Mamdani, who, in his 2004 book *Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror*, wrote that suicide bombers are not barbaric. "We need to recognize the suicide bomber, first and foremost, as a category of soldier. … Suicide bombing needs to be understood as a feature of modern political violence rather than stigmatized as a mark of barbarism," the passage states. These are not the words of someone detached from controversy.

Given these stark facts, it becomes impossible to take seriously The New York Times’ narrative that any objection to Mamdani’s public platform during 9/11 memorials is simply the result of "Islamophobia."

Yet, the Times is so deeply invested in this revisionist framing that it continues to grant additional airtime to this inverted claim. In another article, King, joined by Liam Stack, wrote, "After 9/11, Islamophobia Shaped a Generation of Muslim New Yorkers."

The piece opens with narratives of once-friendly neighbors keeping their distance, undercover police monitoring community events, and passers-by giving "dirty looks" to those in hijabs. Conspicuously absent is any mention of the 2,977 people who were actually murdered that day. No testimony from families of the fallen, no remembrance of the heroic firefighters and police officers who made the ultimate sacrifice.

Instead, the article focuses on how "many American Muslims have faced a quarter-century of suspicion and hostility" and how 9/11 "left many Muslim American communities scarred." This journalistic malpractice ignores the monumental loss of life and twists the focus onto those who, in the Times' view, are now the real victims.

September 11th is the solemn anniversary of nearly 3,000 innocent Americans brutally murdered by Islamic terrorists, and of countless families forced to endure unimaginable grief. These murdered innocents and their grieving families — not politicians with questionable associations or communities feeling "scarred" — are the true victims of 9/11. The American people will not allow The New York Times or any other establishment media outlet to rewrite this painful chapter of our history to fit a convenient, politically correct agenda. Accountability for the truth matters, especially for those who lost everything that day.