Scapegoating Kwame Mamdani Cannot Erase the Painful Truth of September Eleventh

It is only those cynically fanatic adherents of the self-delusional ideology of “American Exceptionalism,” strikingly and dangerously akin to the apparently intractable pathology of “White Supremacy,” presently recognized as the primitively savage ideology of “Make America Great Again,” the latter itself, a veritable corollary of Proto-Nazism, that ought to be roundly condemned for so facilely and cavalierly supposing that the apocalyptic events of September 11, 2001, occurred totally out of the metaphorical “Blue” or completely in a vacuum, as it were (See “Mamdani Faces Growing 9/11 Backlash As Old Post Resurfaces Ahead of Ground -Zero Ceremony: ‘Is This Real?’” FOX News 9/4/26).

The ineradicable truth and the historical fact of the matter is that the hitherto unprecedentedly catastrophic events of the September 11, 2001, belong squarely to the much bigger picture of a decidedly effete and nauseatingly obsolescent American foreign policy of an Orwellian “Animal Farm” breed or fashion that quixotically dictated that the only perspective or sociopolitical and cultural viewpoint that mattered among the Global Community of Nations was that which was singularly and unilaterally dictated by the “Almighty Western-European Alliance of NATO Countries” and, presently, aforereferenced Darwinian State-of-Nature Ideology of Trumpism.

Which is precisely why many a partisan Republican-leaning American citizen has been criminally hoodwinked into believing that the collaboratively genocidal events of February 28, 2026, that culminated in the complete extermination of the Iranian Leadership by the rogue governments of the Zionist regime of Israel and the President Donald John Trump-led United States’ Republican Party, which also witnessed the savage slaughtering of Iran’s Grand-Ayatollah, Ali Hossein Khamenei, 86 years old at the time of his grisly and horrific assassination by the leaders of the aforementioned countries, was Divinely Ordained.

You see, Ideological Narcissists like the foregoing duo who adamantly and intransigently believe that they are all that matter in the realm of civilized humanity are “psychotically” incapable of imagining the coequal humanity of their ideological and political opponents and, consequently, the obvious fact of the latter’s entitlement to coequal sovereignty and the inviolable sovereign right to a comfortable state of sociopolitical self-determination.

That is precisely why the grossly misguided implacable enemies and the inveterate ideological and political opponents of New York City’s legitimately elected Mayor, Zohran “The Shining Star” Kwame-Atoapoma Mamdani, appear to be having such an extremely difficult time appreciating the limpidly clear fact that about the only psychologically and morally balanced means of fully comprehending the enormity of the unspeakably traumatic events of September 11, 2001, is to equally and fully and wholesomely apprehend or comprehend the equally existentially unignorable fact that the massive and the disproportionately retaliatory military application of some of the Deadliest Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs) by the United States and Several of Its NATO Allies in predominantly Muslim countries like Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Libya and, presently, Iran, a country whose name many Americans have a seemingly deliberate difficulty in pronouncing, also has the same kind and emotional level of pain for most of the victims of the aforementioned nations, the overwhelming majority of whom had absolutely nothing, whatsoever, to do with the long temporal chain of events that precipitated the apocalyptic events of September 11, 2001, and the equally long chain of events in the latter’s catastrophic aftermath.

Indeed, it was the scandalously pathetic failure of a wholistic appreciation of the morally unspeakable cost of human depravity and the criminal and the downright bestial behavior towards one another that the then 32-year-old New York State Assemblyman sought to diplomatically and so masterfully convey on the X-post which his largely morally and politically clueless enemies and ideological adversaries are morbidly trying to bludgeon the Ugandan-born and the Indian-descended astute statesman of a stature decidedly unrivaled by any of the imperious and the crassly politically self-inflated and self-infatuated MAGA-Republican leaders.

If, indeed, any group or cabal of American politicians and citizens deserves to be barred from actively and publicly participating in the upcoming solemn commemorative activities marking the Quarter-Century 9/11 Catastrophe or Tragedy, it is actually those among our leadership ranks whose gross and unfathomable insensitivity to the wellbeing and the human right to the dignity of their fellow Non-American human beings that led to the protracted chain of clearly avoidable morally and politically inescapable wakeup call that was the Bin-Laden-orchestrated sinister act of the worst example of human wickedness.

Now, it absolutely goes without saying that Mayor Kwame-Atoapoma Mamdani is dead-on-target when the first-rate Scholar of Global African and Postcolonial Studies also underscores the imperative necessity for any serious victim and/or survivor of the catastrophic events of September 11, 2001 to fully appreciate the fact that as unignorably important as it is to recognize the unspeakably barbaric moral depravity that was the genocidally heinous murder of an estimated 3,000 Tri-State Area Denizens, it equally goes without saying that hundreds and thousands, perhaps even a couple of million people, largely of the Islamic Faith, having absolutely nothing to do with Osama Bin Laden’s Al-Qaeda Network of seasoned and certified terrorists, most of the masterminds of whom were of Saudi Arabian origin and citizenship or nationality, lost their lives as a direct result of the sullen ire of the United States of America and several of its NATO Allies, including the United Kingdom of Great Britain and France.

And by the way, if the Ideology of Socialism were, indeed, as bad and foul-smelling as the fascist and the intransigently racist MAGACRATS would have the rest of the Global Community believe, why would President Donald John Trump adamantly and illegally dip both of his tax-averse hands into our National Treasury in order to spend millions, if not billions, of American taxpayers’ dollars to construct a Behemoth Ballroom within the premises of The White House that the career New York City-born Real-Estate Developer, by his own public self-confession and declaration, specially intends to inaugurally use as a historically nonesuch “Welcome Gesture” of his “Abiding and Unbreakable Friendship” with “Communist” China’s President Xi Jinping, on the latter’s next official visit to the United States (of America), Could have fooled me, Donald “The Tariff-Addicted and Inebriated” Trump!

By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., PhD
Professor Emeritus, Department of English
SUNY-Nassau Community College
Garden City, New York
E-mail: [email protected]