Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Friday that he does not believe Mayor Zohran Mamdani should participate in ceremonies commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Speaking during an appearance on Newsmax’s “Finnerty,” Giuliani argued that the United States is facing what he described as an organized effort by some individuals to transform the country into an Islamic state. Mamdani is Muslim.
“Why are they fighting about Sharia law in Texas and in Dearborn, Michigan?” Giuliani said. “When the Germans came here, they didn’t ask for German law. The Puerto Ricans didn’t ask for Puerto Rican law. The Irish didn’t ask for Irish law.”
“They want to impose a barbaric foreign code on us, given the advances that we’ve made as an Anglo-American country,” Giuliani said. “It’s a disgrace. They’re trying to accomplish by infiltration what they couldn’t accomplish by murderous attack.”
Giuliani also criticized former New York City mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa over comments he made regarding the families of those killed in the Sept. 11 attacks.
“Every once in a while says things I don’t quite understand,” Giuliani said. “If he’s attacking the victims’ families, I don’t know what’s happened to him.
“When I was the mayor, and Bloomberg following me, we just about universally respected the wishes of those families,” Giuliani added. “Because every time we would go to a service and I went to more funerals, than any mayor ever, you had to respect them.
“You can’t imagine going through what they went through, losing your child, losing your husband, losing your wife,” Giuliani continued. “It’s awful [under] any circumstances, but having them attacked by a foreign force, Islamic terrorism, sacrificed that way, you never get over that.”
