Mehdi Hasan: 9/11's Fallout 25 Years Later

On the 25th anniversary of 9/11, New York Mayor Eric Adams—who was nine years old when the attacks happened—faced a barrage of questions about whether he should attend memorial ceremonies. The attacks had nothing to do with him, yet critics invoked his Muslim faith and his past legal work for a 9/11 defendant as reasons to bar him. "This bullshit that the New York Post and Rudy Giuliani claimed to speak for 9-11 families with this fake petition," Mehdi Hasan told Tim Miller, pointing out that actual family members he interviewed had said the opposite. One mother who lost her daughter in the World Trade Center told Hasan the only reason she would attend the ceremony was "because I love Zoran Mamdani."

The Myth That Muslims Didn't Condemn 9/11

Hasan pushed back hard on the persistent narrative that Muslim communities failed to denounce the attacks. "There was a website was created where people Muslims like, here's the list. Here's every imam scholar organization around the world who has condemned 9/11," he said. Yasser Arafat gave blood for American victims the day after. Iranians held candlelight vigils in Tehran for a country that was not their ally. The mayor of Tehran expressed solidarity with New York.