New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is facing backlash after admitting the “aunt” in his 9/11 hijab story was actually his father’s cousin. Mamdani had tearfully claimed she was too afraid to ride the subway after the attacks — a story critics now call misleading. When pressed, he said the real takeaway should be about Islamophobia, not family semantics. But some accuse Mamdani of practicing “Taqiyya” — a Muslim doctrine of concealing one’s true beliefs — suggesting he may be hiding more than just the truth about his so-called “aunt.”
