A group of September 11 families wants New York's first Muslim mayor kept away from the ceremony marking a quarter-century since the attacks, an extraordinary demand aimed at a sitting mayor who has already stood at Ground Zero in mourning three times this year.
The families are circulating a petition urging the organisers of the 25th-anniversary commemoration to exclude Mayor Zohran Mamdani, calling him an 'unwelcome guest' whose past statements and associations, they argue, are incompatible with the solemnity of the day.
