[ April 17, 2026 ]
Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul sparked outrage Friday after ordering that 16 state landmarks – including Manhattan’s One World Trade Center – be illuminated in green to celebrate “the heritage and culture of Muslim Americans.”
Hochul’s decision to light up the skyscraper erected on the site where the Twin Towers were knocked down by terrorists during the 9/11 attacks was decried as “tone deaf” and “disgusting” by several social media users.
“The twin towers were unable to be lit green tonight,” Queens Republican Councilwoman Vickie Paladino wrote on X.
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“It’s disgusting that the Freedom Tower – which stands at the World Trade Center site – is lit in green to celebrate Islam,” fumed Angela Morabito, a spokeswoman for the Defense of Freedom Institute, in a post on X.
“There must be some mistake, this can’t be real??” wrote one shocked X user.
Lighting the World Trade Center in Islamic green 25 years after Islamists destroyed it is what being conquered looks like. https://t.co/wOnEqckmi6
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) January 3, 2026
Ah yes, Muslim Heritage month. Let’s review Muslim heritage.
Included among the 15 other sites Hochul directed to be lit up green are the Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge, Grand Central Terminal – Pershing Square Viaduct, Albany International Airport Gateway, the MTA LIRR – East End Gateway at Penn Station and Roosevelt Island Lighthouse.
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Lighting the World Trade Center in Islamic green 25 years after Islamists destroyed it is what being conquered looks like. https://t.co/wOnEqckmi6
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) January 3, 2026
🚨NYC CONQUERED: NO PLANES. NO EXPLOSIONS. JUST SURRENDER
New York State is lighting 16 buildings green in recognition of Muslim American Heritage Month.
Governor Hochul issued a proclamation.
It’s the first time New York has officially done this.HERITAGE?” – LET’S BE HONEST… https://t.co/u35gsgju5N pic.twitter.com/93267TCW56
— Amy Mek (@AmyMek) January 3, 2026
Mamdani @ZohranKMamdani has been Mayor for one day & he has already lit the Freedom Tower in NYC up in Hamas Green lights to honor “Muslim Heritage Month”, which normal people call January.
Disgusting.
Jihadists will be the death of our country. We need to have zero tolerance. pic.twitter.com/rNpFFsc0qy
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) January 3, 2026
Ah yes, Muslim Heritage month. Let’s review Muslim heritage. There’s a lot of heritage.
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The US (incomplete list):
1990 Assassination of Meir Kahane
1993 CIA headquarters shooting
1993 World Trade Center bombing
1994 Brooklyn Bridge shooting
1995 Bojinka plot
1997 Brooklyn bombing plot
2000 millennium attack plots
2001 September 11 attacks
2001 shoe bomb attempt
2002 Los Angeles Airport shooting
2002 José Padilla/Abdullah al-Muhajir’s attack plot
2002 Buffalo Six
2004 financial buildings plot
2005 Los Angeles bomb plot
2006 Hudson River bomb plot
2006 Sears Tower plot
2006 Seattle Jewish Federation shooting
2006 Toledo terror plot
2006 transatlantic aircraft plot
2006 UNC SUV attack
2007 Fort Dix attack plot
2007 John F. Kennedy International Airport attack plot
2009 Failed underwear bomb on Northwest Airlines Flight 253
2009 Little Rock recruiting office shooting
2009 Bronx terrorism plot
2009 Dallas car bomb plot by Hosam Maher Husein Smadi[39]
2009 New York City Subway and United Kingdom plot
2009 Fort Hood shooting
2009 Colleen LaRose arrested (not made public until March 2010)
2010 Transatlantic aircraft bomb plot
2010 King Salmon, Alaska local meteorologist and wife assassination plots
2010 Alleged Washington Metro bomb plot
2010 Times Square car bombing attempt
2011 Saudi Arabian student bomb plots
2011 Manhattan terrorism plot
2011 Lone Wolf New York City, Bayonne, NJ pipe bombs plot
2012 Car bomb plot in Florida
2013 Boston Marathon bombing
2013 Wichita bombing attempt
2014 Beheading by Alton Nolen
2014 Queens hatchet attack
2014 New Jersey, Seattle, Washington, and West Orange killing spree by Ali Muhammad Brown
2015 Boston beheading plot
2015 Curtis Culwell Center attack
2015 Chattanooga shootings
2015 San Bernardino attack
2016 Orlando nightclub shooting
2016 New York and New Jersey bombings
2016 St. Cloud, Minnesota mall stabbing
2016 Ohio State University attack
2017 Bishop International Airport attack
2017 New York City truck attack
2019 Naval Air Station Pensacola shooting
2022 Stabbing of Salman Rushdie
2022 Times Square stabbing of NYPD officers
2025 New Orleans truck attack
2025 Boulder fire attack
2025 Washington, D.C., National Guard shooting
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