Opinion: night and laughter after September 11th
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In 1964, André Malraux described how women in a village in Corrèze, France, silently honored unknown resistance fighters killed by German forces during World War II by attending their secret burial.
He noted a universal human feeling of solidarity in death and against injustice. The author connects this historical event to the 25th anniversary of the September 11th attacks, arguing they similarly evoked a sense of shared grief and condemnation of terrorism.
However, Zohran Mamdani, the current mayor of New York City, allegedly acted against this spirit of unity. Days before the anniversary, Mamdani reportedly spent 34 million dollars to shift media focus towards air quality concerns, attempting to undermine the established narrative surrounding the attacks and question the authorities’ claims about safe air conditions after the event.
Witnesses saw Mamdani laughing with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez during the solemn reading of the victims’ names on September 11th, which the author characterizes not as a social blunder, but as a deliberate disrespect for the memory of those lost and potentially a justification of the attacks as retribution for American imperialism. The author suggests that this laughter represents a denial of grief and a rejection of shared mourning.
