New York Times accused of framing Muslims as true victims of 9/11 in anniversary coverage
The New York Times on Friday was accused of treating Muslims as the true victims of the terror attacks of September 11, 2021, but the paper insists any criticism is a "disingenuous" attempt to stoke outrage."The Times can't remember 9/11 without bemoaning a ‘wave of hate’ and ‘anti-Muslim prejudice,’ NewsBusters executive editor Tim Graham told Fox News Digital.The Times’ published a story headlined, "After 9/11, Islamophobia Shaped a Generation of Muslim New Yorkers," that said the "attacks unleashed a wave of hate, but the years since have seen Muslim Americans’ political and cultural influence grow."LIBERAL VIRGINIA SCHOOL DISTRICT: DON'T LINK 9/11 TERROR ATTACKS TO 'ISLAM OR MUSLIMS'Flowers and American flags rest beside inscribed names at a reflecting pool at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum on Sept.11, 2026, in New York City, as the nation commemorated the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
(Jeenah Moon - Pool/Getty Images)Times reporters Liam Stack and Maya King wrote about "once-friendly neighbors" allegedly keeping their distance from American Muslims on the heels of the terror attacks, suggesting that many "have faced a quarter-century of suspicion and hostility.""In New York, a generation of Muslim New Yorkers responded to the Islamophobia by organizing their communities: Mosques hosted makeshift legal clinics.Small businesses became hubs in a citywide civil rights network.
Muslims of different racial, ethnic and linguistic backgrounds formed alliances the city had not seen before," Stack and King wrote."Their political organizing helped, years later, to elect the city’s first Muslim mayor, Zohran Mamdani," they continued."But anti-Muslim prejudice still endures, echoing the Islamophobia that arose in the earliest days after Sept.
11."The Times’ story, which was published hours before the somber anniversary of the attacks that killed 2,977 people at the World Trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon and ab...