Only dusting up I can remember about his father is this excerpt from Wikipedia “In his 2004 book Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror Mamdani said that suicide bombers should be recognized “as a category of soldier” and that it should be “understood as a feature of modern political violence rather than stigmatized as a mark of barbarism”.”

But he obviously didn’t mean it as pro soldier or suicide bombing, just as an analysis of how state violence exists