Rudy Giuliani calls for Mamdani to skip 9/11 memorial ceremonies: It offends me

Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani — who led the Big Apple through Sept.11, 2001 — said there was “no question” that Mayor Zohran Mamdani should skip the memorial ceremonies marking the 25th anniversary of the terror attacks.Giuliani — whose steady leadership in the aftermath of the attacks earned him the nickname “America’s mayor” — said the notion of Mamdani attending the memorials this week “offends me” during an interview on Newsmax Sunday.“The reality is this ceremony is for the families and for America to remember historically,” Giuliani said.

“Having lost friends there and being very close to many of the families, it offends me that he’s coming,” he said of Mamdani.The 82-year-old ex-mayor also claimed that Mamdani “doesn’t agree that September 11 was an Islamic terrorist attack on the United States Of America,” before going off on an anti-Muslim conspiracy-laced rant.He spewed baseless claims that Mamdani, who is a practicing Muslim, was part of a global Islamic plot to “dominate” the western world.“Too many Americans fall for that Islamic propaganda, which is the reason they’re taking over certain parts of America and certain parts of Europe,” he raved.Giuliani even suggested Mamdani was worse than the 9/11 hijackers — saying terror mastermind Osama Bin Laden was open about his hatred of the US, but that the mayor “is trying to hide it.”The Republican former mayor’s diatribe made him one of the most prominent voice so far to call for Mamdani to stay away from memorial ceremonies this week, a demand which several 9/11 victim’s families have voiced and an online petition has endorsed with nearly 100,000 signatures.Those demands largely stemmed from Mamdani’s associations with various controversial figures who have condemned America, laid the blame of 9/11 on US foreign policy or associated with known terrorists.Former New York Gov.George Pataki — in office during the attacks that killed more than 2,700 p...