Feel free to call me an Islamophobe. New York electing a Muslim mayor after 9/11 is not brave. It’s stupid. Islamist terrorists murdered nearly 3,000 people in this city. They flew planes into the Towers on purpose. They chose New York because it was the symbol they wanted to burn. That wasn’t “misunderstood politics.” It was jihad aimed at this city’s throat. Twenty-five years later, the same city hands City Hall to a Muslim mayor and pats itself on the back. That’s not healing. That’s a city that learned nothing and wants credit for forgetting. If your first instinct after watching Manhattan get attacked in the name of Islam is “let’s put that identity in the mayor’s office,” you are not open-minded. You are reckless. You traded memory for applause. New York paid in blood. Acting like that history is now an inconvenience is how a city sets itself up to get hit again and still call it progress.