After being busted for lying about his "hijab-wearing" aunt on the New York subway, socialist Zohran Mamdani is telling the public he actually meant to share a sob story about his "distant cousin" who was the real victim of 9/11 because people looked at her funny on public transit.
Zohran now says it was a distant cousin, not an aunt, who was afraid to wear her hijab in NYC because of 9/11
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) October 27, 2025
(His aunt doesn't wear a hijab)
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That aunt never wore the hijab and was living in Tanzania during the 9/11 terror attacks that killed nearly 3,000 New Yorkers.
Conveniently, this cousin passed away a few years ago, so no journalist can ask her questions.
Zohran Mamdani says that his "aunt" that he claimed on Friday was too afraid to wear her hijab on the subway after 9/11 was actually his father's cousin named "Zehra Fuhi" who he says passed away a few years ago. pic.twitter.com/LA2jOY5K6r
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) October 27, 2025
A Google search and a search of Legacy.com yielded no obituary for anyone by that name, in case you were wondering. That may be because Mamdani's camp refused to give the press her full name.
My favorite part of Zohran Mamdani changing this story from his aunt to a distant cousin is that, when asked, he declined to give her full name so any of his weepy little anecdote could be verified: https://t.co/hy5JJNfCBZ pic.twitter.com/1pkzB9Pksk
— Trinity Votes Blue 🇮🇱🇺🇦 (@TrinityMustache) October 27, 2025
Zohran Mamdani shed crocodile tears last week, mad that his opponent, Andrew Cuomo, called him out for ties to Imam Siraj Wahhaj, an unindicted co-conspirator of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Six people died in that terror attack. Wahhaj also believes gays should be put to death and calls them the "disease of society."
He lamented the rise of "Islamophobia" and vowed to protect New York Muslims from the scourge of people not wanting radical Islamists to ruin Western Civilization.
No one is surprised that Mamdani lied and is now backpedaling on his original statement.
I didn’t have a chance today to tweet my prediction of this: “Um, ah, we Arabs call everybody our aunts and uncles! I didn’t mean it literally!!!” cc @assliken @SirajAHashmi https://t.co/B2KF1FigF1
— Leslie ن 🇺🇸☦️ (@LADowd) October 27, 2025
He lied. He wasn't speaking metaphorically. He lied.
“Aunt” is just a general term from Mamdani’s culture that means “person I made up.”
— Frank J. Fleming (@IMAO_) October 28, 2025
It sure seems to be.
If he lies about this, what else is he lying about? New York voters deserve to know, as he's poised to be their next mayor.