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Mamdani hands symbolic 9/11 pen to lawyer who once represented al-Qaeda terrorist
The New York Post ^ | 09/05/2026 | Gabrielle Fahmy

Posted on 09/05/2026 6:07:25 PM PDT by thegagline

Mayor Zohran Mamdani signed an executive order recognizing 9/11 Friday — and then gave the symbolic pen to his controversial aide who once represented an al-Qaeda terrorist with links to the attack on the Pentagon.

Administration officials were gathered at City Hall for a pair of executive orders — ahead of the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks — one establishing a Day of Remembrance and another beefing up security against future terror threats.

After Mamdani signed the last of the documents, Hizzoner gave Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch the ceremonial pen, and whispered, “Can you pass this?”

Tisch awkwardly handed it to Mamdani’s chief counsel, Ramzi Kassem, who just snuck into the press conference, before she hurried out of the Blue Room — the first official to exit the press conference.

“It was calculated,” retired detective and adjunct professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice Michael Alazar told The Post.

“It happened during a ceremony meant to be about the victims, and no one else. 9/11 families didn’t come to City Hall to watch Mamdani spotlight someone whose work intersects with the very ideology that took their loved ones. Commissioner Jessica Tisch was reduced to a prop rather than acknowledging her role as the leader of the NYPD.”

Kassem, a lawyer who famously represented al-Qaeda operative Ahmed al-Darbi, is seen on video smirking as he receives the symbolic pen. ***

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


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There is a huge difference between being “tone deaf” and acting with malice.
1 posted on 09/05/2026 6:07:25 PM PDT by thegagline
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To: thegagline

The New Yorkers who voted for this POS are the ones who are tone deaf.


2 posted on 09/05/2026 6:11:08 PM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: thegagline

https://gellerreport.com/2026/09/hamas-linked-cair-study-guide-blames-9-11-on-israel-recommends-reading-osama.html/


3 posted on 09/05/2026 6:12:49 PM PDT by combat_boots
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To: combat_boots

“ An earlier version of the document did not go through proper vetting and included a link to a primary source document that was removed in November 2025”

Interesting that it was not removed before President Trump was in office.


4 posted on 09/05/2026 6:20:46 PM PDT by Freee-dame (The left never dreamed de that Trump would be back in the White House in 2025. )
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To: thegagline

This is totally a middle finger ger to NY and the entire USA. They are making a mockery of this.


5 posted on 09/05/2026 6:30:16 PM PDT by woweeitsme
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To: thegagline

I am 100% convinced Mamdani, and his family, are active agents of the WEF/Davos/London, sent to the USA’s largest city to specifically cause trouble.


6 posted on 09/05/2026 6:32:26 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: thegagline

Seattle residents are calling for their woke mayor to leave.
NYC needs to do the same and trash this piece of shit that is making a mockery out of 9/11……and on the 25th anniversary to boot!
This Mamdani scrounge belongs back in Uganda where the gorillas are smarter than he is. And send his Islamist wife back with his worthless ass. Mamdani’s degree in African studies will be put to better use in his homeland where hopefully, an elephant will shit on his ugly face.


7 posted on 09/05/2026 6:35:04 PM PDT by doc maverick
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To: thegagline

FZM and all his followers rigorously in hell.
Inshallah.


8 posted on 09/05/2026 6:41:12 PM PDT by MrBambaLaMamba (עומד לצד ישראל. The only good commie is one that's dead - Country Joe McDonald)
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To: woweeitsme

No, I think it’s just New York City. They voted this a$$hole in. They deserve what they get.


9 posted on 09/05/2026 6:49:49 PM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: thegagline

I remember after 9/11 they would say NEVER FORGET..well guess what, New York FORGOT


10 posted on 09/05/2026 6:52:26 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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After all, he came out of nowhere.

Perhaps the CIA is involved.

11 posted on 09/05/2026 6:53:03 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: thegagline

New Yuck City is conquered Islamic territory. A s hole that needs to be given the ‘Fighting Billy’ treatment.


12 posted on 09/05/2026 7:12:14 PM PDT by Organic Panic ( )
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To: neverevergiveup
The New Yorkers who voted for this POS ...

Are beneath contempt.

13 posted on 09/05/2026 7:12:24 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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And the media suppressed all the videos and screenshots of World Trade Center people jumping to their deaths to escape the burning to death fate. Years went by without one allowed on TV.

And GW Bush’s naive support for the trend that promoted TV ads showing people of various occupations and ending with a firefighter who was an Arab-—we are all in this together.

As Ann Coulter said: We had an enemy in a shooting war with the name but elected, twice, a man in the US with the middle name Hussein.


14 posted on 09/05/2026 7:16:24 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: thegagline

It’s a classic example of pissing in your face...
Many of today’s Americans will just lick their lips and smile...


15 posted on 09/05/2026 7:16:37 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is rabble-rising Sam Adams now that we need him? Is his name Trump, now?)
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[Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch]

On a separate note: must the police department of every major city be led by a female?


16 posted on 09/05/2026 7:18:46 PM PDT by I-ambush (From the brightest star comes the blackest holeYou had so much to offer, why didya offer your soul?)
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To: doc maverick

>>>NYC needs to do the same and trash this piece of shit that is making a mockery out of 9/11……and on the 25th anniversary to boot!
This Mamdani scrounge belongs back in Uganda where the gorillas are smarter than he is.<<<

Your entire statement is very strongly worded . . . and I happen to TOTALLY AGREE with all of it.


17 posted on 09/05/2026 7:23:07 PM PDT by Old Grumpy
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To: woweeitsme

“This is totally a middle finger ger to NY and the entire USA. They are making a mockery of this.”

You probably won’t like the muslim prayer rug set up in front of the NYFD memorial.

It only took 25 years of constant islamic invasion for NY to be completely conquered. Beach heads are established in every major US city. America is done. Sorry to say. We have an entire government supporting this. Maybe things will change when the muzzies start beheading the trannies and homos but that will be unlikely as they will happily give up their lives to show they aren’t racist or islamaphobic.

Prepare accordingly. The civilization war on the horizon will make World War 1 and World War eleven (HT Ahmed Nur Said Elmi ex wife and sister, Ilhan Omar) look like a pillow fight.


18 posted on 09/05/2026 7:24:08 PM PDT by Organic Panic ( )
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To: Freee-dame

Interesting

The Naudet brothers’ film.
https://youtu.be/HE8DLImd2Ao?is=x74W63i9uRnpou-S


19 posted on 09/05/2026 7:25:06 PM PDT by combat_boots
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To: thegagline

OMG! What a slap in the face to the families of the victims. Horrible!


20 posted on 09/05/2026 7:26:19 PM PDT by gildafarrell (To Strive, To Seek, To Find and Not To Yield!)
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