Mahmood Mamdani, credited with shaping son Zohran’s thinking, wrote of ‘moral equivalence’ between 9/11 and US war on terror Zohran Mamdani has said he edits his father's speeches and writings and has described his father as an intellectual influence

(Free Beacon) New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s father wrote shortly after 9/11 that there was a “moral equivalence” between the al Qaeda attack and retaliatory U.S. bombing of Afghanistan.

“There is an eerie similarity between the American bombing of Iraq and Afghanistan and the al-Qaeda bombing of embassies in Nairobi and Dar-es-Salaam and of the Twin Towers on 9/11,” Mahmood Mamdani, a professor at Columbia University, wrote in his 2004 book, Good Muslim, Bad Muslim. He added that there is a “moral equivalence between the two.”

“[B]oth testify that, when it comes to the contest for power, the rest of the world exists only as collateral.”

The elder Mamdani also proclaimed in previously unreported writings a “growing common ground between the perpetrators of 9/11 and the official response to it called ‘the war on terror.'”

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