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RE: WTF? People actually believe this asshole? - 11/24/2015 2:54:34 AM

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How nice to see some of our resident Right wingers loudly denounce Trump for his racism. Well done guys.

Too often the Right is silent about the racists in its ranks. This makes your principled stand even more commendable.

Again well done! You are setting a standard that I hope most of your fellow Right wingers will adopt. Keep it up!

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RE: WTF? People actually believe this asshole? - 11/24/2015 4:04:40 AM

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And of course you have to chime in too with the talking points. Racists and bigots and homophobes, oh my !!!!!

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RE: WTF? People actually believe this asshole? - 11/24/2015 5:19:08 AM

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For rightwingers to come out and denounce Trump for his racism and bigotry is a welcome development. It tells us that some rightwingers are serious about consigning the obnoxious bigotries that the Right promoted for centuries to the past. They have realised that there is no place for bigotry in today's world. Sadly as your post makes clear, not all rightwingers have learnt this.

That you seem to find racism, bigotry and homophobia amusing tells us more about you than anything else. It's sad that the message hasn't penetrated some of the thicker Right wing skulls but any movement away from the bigotry of the past and towards a saner future is better than no movement at all.

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RE: WTF? People actually believe this asshole? - 11/24/2015 6:21:55 AM

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RE: WTF? People actually believe this asshole? - 11/24/2015 6:28:29 AM

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The amusing part is pretty much contained on the first page of this thread. Very few of us are actually bigoted. Crying racist bigot homophobe is the go to tactic the left still continues to smear people with when they can't make a decent argument. More and more, people are beginning to see through it as the left continues to bleat on and on because you people have cried wolf so many times.....well most people not including the so called right wingers you seem to find so refreshing.

Now you guys are even going so far as play the Snotzi card. It doesn't get anymore bigoted and extremist than that.

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RE: WTF? People actually believe this asshole? - 11/24/2015 6:45:07 AM

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your friends dont have the intelligence to be anything but scum, so you just follow your leader.

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RE: WTF? People actually believe this asshole? - 11/24/2015 6:57:34 AM

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Fact is US, does not have statistic on how many Muslims in the US supports ISIS, because they aren't living in a Muslim country and cannot openly declare their support of ISIS.

Whereas Muslim countries like Malaysia can openly ask and nobody gets in trouble for saying they support ISIS.

They got actual stats.

YAY for Malaysia! Now tell me, what does that have to do with US populations?

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So US should really worry about what is the percentage of their millions of Muslims that actually support ISIS.

Agreed. But again, how does any of what you have said apply to the US?

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I think

Some would call that a red flag.

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judging from numbers from Malaysia, 10% is fair. Let's just say 5% in the US, that would be fair too.

Because you say so? That is literally all that you have supporting this. A number you have made up.

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RE: WTF? People actually believe this asshole? - 11/24/2015 7:01:17 AM

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ORIGINAL: Greta75

This person claims It is True

Actually 'this person' said

"I didn’t see thousands of Muslims celebrating but I absolutely saw a pocket, perhaps 100, jumping for joy at the sight of the smoke rising from where the Twin Towers used to be."

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RE: WTF? People actually believe this asshole? - 11/24/2015 7:04:24 AM

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Also, I believe there is no crime commited in US law, even if they cheered for 9/11 right? Why would the police be involved? No crime commited. They can celebrate and cheer whatever they want. No crimes commited at all. Just insensitive maybe. If they police was investigating anything, they would have found nothing, as no crime commited.

Tell that to all of the Muslims or people who could be mistaken for Muslims that were attacked after 9/11 and are being attacked now.

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RE: WTF? People actually believe this asshole? - 11/24/2015 7:04:45 AM

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Her inability to deal with facts is only overshadowed by her ignorance to understand what a FACT is

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RE: WTF? People actually believe this asshole? - 11/24/2015 7:19:11 AM

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"I Live In Jersey And Trump Is Right: Muslims DID Celebrate On 9/11 In NJ . . . We Saw It!"

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Donald Trump is telling the truth about Muslims celebrating in New Jersey on September 11, 2001...

We witnessed people in traditional Muslim garb dancing, jumping, shouting and celebrating like their team had won the Super Bowl, just as Trump said...

I didn’t see thousands of Muslims celebrating but I absolutely saw a pocket, perhaps 100, jumping for joy at the sight of the smoke rising from where the twin towers used to be..

Others in N.J. have spoken about witnessing these events.

Suddenly we are all being called liars in order for Trump-haters to cast aspersions on him...

I know what I saw, Donald Trump knows what he saw and scores of N.J. residents know what they saw.

What none of us need is some talking head who doesn’t live here or didn’t see what we did to tell us what happened.

I encourage anyone who witnessed the celebrations in N.J., N.Y., or any other city that day to share their stories on Twitter with the hashtag #TrumpIsright.

Read more at http://conservativeread.com/i-live-in-jersey-and-trump-is-right-muslims-did-celebrate-on-911-in-nj-we-saw-it/#7D6mEdD2buOzI5aq.99

so is the issue contentious over the number? or whether or not it happened at all regardless of the numbers? or that it did happen but so what?

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RE: WTF? People actually believe this asshole? - 11/24/2015 7:20:41 AM

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that he saw it on the media
and no one has proved him right.

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RE: WTF? People actually believe this asshole? - 11/24/2015 7:23:46 AM

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about bloody time. Now we need his lies to be shown to be lies by his "peers"
i aint holding my breath
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/24/opinion/mr-trumps-applause-lies.html?ref=international

Mr. Trump’s Applause Lies

America has just lived through another presidential campaign week dominated by Donald Trump’s racist lies. Here’s a partial list of false statements: The United States is about to take in 250,000 Syrian refugees; African-Americans are responsible for most white homicides; and during the 9/11 attacks, “thousands and thousands” of people in an unnamed “Arab” community in New Jersey “were cheering as that building was coming down.”

In the Republican field, Mr. Trump has distinguished himself as fastest to dive to the bottom. If it’s a lie too vile to utter aloud, count on Mr. Trump to say it, often. It wins him airtime, and retweets through the roof.

This phenomenon is in fact nothing new. Politicians targeting minorities, foreigners or women have always existed in the culture. And every generation or so, at least one demagogue surfaces to fan those flames.

Here’s Donald Trump on Sunday: “When the Syrian refugees are going to start pouring into this country, we don’t know if they’re ISIS, we don’t know if it’s a Trojan horse. And I definitely want a database and other checks and balances. We want to go with watch lists. We want to go with databases. And we have no choice. We have no idea who’s being sent in here. This could be the — it’s probably not, but it could be the great Trojan horse of all time, where they come in.”

Here’s Joseph McCarthy in 1950: “Today we are engaged in a final, all-out battle between communistic atheism and Christianity. The modern champions of communism have selected this as the time, and ladies and gentlemen, the chips are down — they are truly down.”

Here’s Donald Trump last Tuesday: “We’re going to have to do things that we never did before. And some people are going to be upset about it, but I think that now everybody is feeling that security is going to rule. And certain things will be done that we never thought would happen in this country in terms of information and learning about the enemy. And so we’re going to have to do certain things that were frankly unthinkable a year ago.”

Here’s George Wallace in 1963: “We must redefine our heritage, re-school our thoughts in the lessons our forefathers knew so well, in order to function and to grow and to prosper. We can no longer hide our head in the sand and tell ourselves that the ideology of our free fathers is not being attacked and is not being threatened by another idea ... for it is.”

Mr. Trump relies on social media to spread his views. This is convenient because there’s no need to respond to questions about his fabrications. That makes it imperative that other forms of media challenge him.

Instead, as Mr. Trump stays at the top of the Republican field, it’s become a full-time job just running down falsehoods like the phony crime statistics he tweeted, which came from a white supremacist group.

Yet Mr. Trump is regularly rewarded with free TV time, where he talks right over anyone challenging him, and doubles down when called out on his lies.

This isn’t about shutting off Mr. Trump’s bullhorn. His right to spew nonsense is protected by the Constitution, but the public doesn’t need to swallow it. History teaches that failing to hold a demagogue to account is a dangerous act. It’s no easy task for journalists to interrupt Mr. Trump with the facts, but it’s an important one.

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RE: WTF? People actually believe this asshole? - 11/24/2015 7:40:19 AM

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Wanting to have all Muslims in the US registered and tracked?

"Drive-Bys Lie and Claim Donald Trump Said Register All Muslims"

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RUSH: The Drive-Bys are trying to destroy the two leading Republicans again today, Donald Trump and Ben Carson. They are doing a terrific job of taking Trump out of context. He was leaving the stage, I guess it was last night, he was doing a personal appearance somewhere, he was leaving the stage, he's finished, and a Drive-By gets amongst the autograph speakers and starts peppering him with questions. He answered a question and it's how the reporter is purposely misinterpreting it to say that Donald Trump last night said that he's in favor of a registration database of all Muslims in the US, and everybody in the Drive-Bys has run with it, and he didn't say it. We have the audio sound bite coming up to illustrate it.

RUSH: Now, I don't know if you have seen it yet today. There are stories all over the Drive-By Media -- the Associated Press, Yahoo News, I mean, it's everywhere -- that Donald Trump supposedly is calling for the registration of all Muslims in America. Trump is demanding that they all be registered and that a massive database be collected. CNN is all over reporting this. Even the Wall Street Journal has picked up on it. There's a problem, though:

Trump didn't say it.

I'm gonna tell you what happened. At a recent public appearance Trump's coming off the stage after one of his usual one hour to 90-minute appearances.

He's probably worn out and spent, and there's the usual crowd of autograph seekers and supporters and fans, and amongst them is a Drive-By Media reporter who says to Trump, "Should there be a database system that tracks the Muslims that are in this country?" Trump says, "There should be a lot of systems, beyond databases. We should have a lot of systems, and today you can do it. But right now we have to have a border. We have to have strength, we have to have a wall, and we cannot let what's happening to this country happen again." Reporter: "Is that something your White House would like to implement?"

There's no specificity there. The question is just, "Is that something your White House would like to implement?" Trump has given a multifaceted answer. He says, "Is that something," without specifying what he's asking about. Trump said, "Oh, I would certainly implement that, absolutely," and that's how they report that Trump "demands a database and registration for all Muslims," when he didn't say it! He never said it. It's a Journalism 101 trick. It's right out of the manual they teach you at the first year of journalism school in how to destroy political opponents or powerful people you don't like. It's that common a technique.

He has not confirmed a database. He has not confirmed registration of Muslims. He's changed the question to his favorite subject, the wall and the border and keeping illegal immigrants out. The reporter says, "Is that something your White House would like to implement?" Not specifying. If anything, the guy's talking about the border. The last thing Trump said in his answer was talking about the border, strength, a wall. The reporter says, "Is that something your White House would like to implement?" There is nothing specified. The use of the word "that," the reporter then can say, "Well, I meant Muslim registration, look what Trump said, Trump knew what I was talking about."

But Trump's answer was, "Oh, I would certainly implement that, absolutely."

Reporter: "What do you think the effect of that would be?"

"It would stop people from coming in illegally." Trump's still talking about the border. He's still talking about the wall. He says, "We have to stop people from coming into this country illegally." So how in the world can Trump be talking about the registration of Muslims or anybody when he's still talking about keeping people out of the country? Muslims are here. This is a good, old-fashioned hatchet job by this low-rent reporter named Hunter Walker who's got everybody in the media reporting it the way he wants because this is what they want people to believe about Trump. This is what they believe about all Republicans. We're bigots, we're racists, sexists and so forth, and Trump's just come along and confirmed it. And I guarantee you there's a contest inside the Drive-By Media to see who can be the one to take Trump out.

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2015/11/20/drive_bys_lie_and_claim_donald_trump_said_register_all_muslims

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RE: WTF? People actually believe this asshole? - 11/24/2015 7:41:47 AM

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RE: WTF? People actually believe this asshole? - 11/24/2015 8:12:37 AM

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"I Live In Jersey And Trump Is Right: Muslims DID Celebrate On 9/11 In NJ . . . We Saw It!"

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Donald Trump is telling the truth about Muslims celebrating in New Jersey on September 11, 2001...

We witnessed people in traditional Muslim garb dancing, jumping, shouting and celebrating like their team had won the Super Bowl, just as Trump said...

I didn’t see thousands of Muslims celebrating but I absolutely saw a pocket, perhaps 100, jumping for joy at the sight of the smoke rising from where the twin towers used to be..

Others in N.J. have spoken about witnessing these events.

Suddenly we are all being called liars in order for Trump-haters to cast aspersions on him...

I know what I saw, Donald Trump knows what he saw and scores of N.J. residents know what they saw.

What none of us need is some talking head who doesn’t live here or didn’t see what we did to tell us what happened.

I encourage anyone who witnessed the celebrations in N.J., N.Y., or any other city that day to share their stories on Twitter with the hashtag #TrumpIsright.

Read more at http://conservativeread.com/i-live-in-jersey-and-trump-is-right-muslims-did-celebrate-on-911-in-nj-we-saw-it/#7D6mEdD2buOzI5aq.99

so is the issue contentious over the number? or whether or not it happened at all regardless of the numbers? or that it did happen but so what?

My biggest issue is the ignorant manner in which information is being used by people who wouldn't be able to critically think their way through a maze on the kids menu at Olive Garden.

She wants to argue numbers and put up her statistics? That's her prerogative. But when she is basing her numbers on how she interprets stats based on her country, then provides other sources that in no way back her numbers up, then she needs to know that it is going to be pointed out.

This annoys me because this is the OP's MO. We (those of us on here from the US) are constantly hearing about how she thinks we should be doing things, based on what she sees in her own country and what she has 'heard' from others. And she doesn't mind inserting ignorance, prejudice, misinformation, etc into every post.

But to address your questions:
Numbers: you can't deny how blatantly misleading this exaggeration is. And I don't for a second believe that Trump said it in error. He knows exactly how inflammatory this would be.

Do I believe this happened to some degree somewhere? Yeah, unfortunately I do. If someone were to try and tell me that it did not happen at all, and they really believed that, I would advise them to stay away from OG as well.

But I would also point out when was the last time that there wasn't some sort of religion/race/gender/sexual orientation/etc-based attack that wasn't followed by news reports of someone somewhere celebrating? This isn't a statement about Muslims. Its a statement about people. A sad one, but there it is.

So what? No, not at all. I find it abhorrent.

But to take what has not been shown to be more than isolated incidences and exaggerate them to try and inflame others? Play on people's fears or biases to further your own cause?

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RE: WTF? People actually believe this asshole? - 11/24/2015 10:11:53 AM

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http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/nov/22/donald-trump/fact-checking-trumps-claim-thousands-new-jersey-ch/

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/nov/22/donald-trump/fact-checking-trumps-claim-thousands-new-jersey-ch/

Arguing that there are terrorist sympathizers in the United States, Donald Trump says he saw "thousands" of New Jerseyans celebrating after the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.

"I watched when the World Trade Center came tumbling down," the Republican presidential candidate said at a Nov. 21 rally in Birmingham, Ala. "And I watched in Jersey City, N.J., where thousands and thousands of people were cheering as that building was coming down. Thousands of people were cheering."

The next day, ABC This Week host George Stephanopoulos asked Trump if he misspoke, noting that "the police say that didn't happen."

Trump -- who has said he was in his Manhattan apartment the morning of the attack -- doubled down.

"It was on television. I saw it," Trump said. "It was well covered at the time, George. Now, I know they don't like to talk about it, but it was well covered at the time. There were people over in New Jersey that were watching it, a heavy Arab population, that were cheering as the buildings came down. Not good."

We looked back at the record to see what we could find about American Muslim celebrations in New Jersey on 9/11. While we found widely broadcast video of people in the Palestinian territories celebrating, we found no evidence to back up Trump’s description of events on American soil.

Urban myth

We conducted an exhaustive search of newspaper and television transcripts on LexisNexis, looking for reports from September 2001 through December 2001 that made any mention of Muslims in New Jersey celebrating the 9/11 attacks.

Regarding Jersey City, which Trump mentioned specifically, we found two uncorroborated and unsourced mentions. Neither begins to approach the scale Trump described.

The Associated Press, on Sept. 17, 2001, described "rumors of rooftop celebrations of the attack by Muslims" in Jersey City. But the same report said those rumors were "unfounded."

The Washington Post, on Sept. 18, 2001, published an article that claimed "law enforcement authorities detained and questioned a number of people who were allegedly seen celebrating the attacks and holding tailgate-style parties on rooftops while they watched the devastation on the other side of the river." The Post story includes no source for this information, and we found no evidence that any of these allegations ever stuck.

A more rampant rumor of Muslim or Arab-Americans cheering the attacks centered around nearby Paterson, N.J. But that turned out to be just a rumor, spawned by chain emails and perpetuated by shock jock Howard Stern’s radio show.

The Star-Ledger reported that as the rumors spread, "Paterson police rushed to South Main Street, the center of the city's Middle Eastern community."

"When we got there, they were all in prayer," Paterson Police Chief Lawrence Spagnola said.

Three percent of New Jersey residents are Muslim -- the highest of any state -- according to Pew Research Center. Suspected 9/11 terrorists had ties to Jersey City and Paterson. But there is no conclusive evidence that any New Jersey residents celebrated the attacks, and there is no evidence whatsoever of any demonstrations where "thousands and thousands of people" cheered.

Nor is there any evidence Trump saw these events play out in any way, be it on TV or in person. We reached out to Trump’s campaign but didn’t hear back.

What we did find are many stories of Muslims living in New Jersey speaking out against the attacks and bracing themselves for anti-Muslim backlash. For example, Paterson residents put up a banner on the city’s main street that said "The Muslim Community Does Not Support Terrorism.''

Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop responded to Trump’s statement on Twitter, saying Trump "has memory issues or willfully distorts the truth."

Our ruling

Trump said he "watched in Jersey City, N.J., where thousands and thousands of people were cheering" as the World Trade Center collapsed.

This defies basic logic. If thousands and thousands of people were celebrating the 9/11 attacks on American soil, many people beyond Trump would remember it. And in the 21st century, there would be video or visual evidence.

Instead, all we found were a couple of news articles that described rumors of celebrations that were either debunked or unproven.

Trump’s recollection of events in New Jersey in the hours after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks flies in the face of all the evidence we could find. We rate this statement Pants on Fire.

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RE: WTF? People actually believe this asshole? - 11/24/2015 10:33:51 AM

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oh and more.....
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-911-muslim-cheering-debunked
Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump has been characteristically unapologetic about his claim that “thousands and thousands” of New Jersey residents cheered as the World Trade Center fell on Sept. 11, 2001, even though contemporaneous news reports don’t support it.

And his insistence on that recollection, which has no basis in fact, shows just how expert he is at roping together conspiracy theories, urban legends, and rumors that lurk on the fringes of the Internet and bringing them into the mainstream.

Rumors of groups of people celebrating the attacks in “tailgate-style parties” popped up in national publications like The Washington Post and Associated Press, but were never confirmed as true. A highly publicized video of Muslims cheering and flashing victory signs on the day of the attack was shot in the Israeli-occupied West Bank of Palestine, not in the Garden State. A video of American Muslims celebrating the terrorist attack doesn’t appear to exist and none of the unconfirmed reports of such an incident comes anywhere near the scale that Trump describes.

Here are four possible sources for Trump’s mistaken recollection.

The five “Dancing Israelis”

On the afternoon of Sept. 11, 2001, five young men were stopped by FBI agents while crossing the George Washington Bridge. As The New York Times and many other outlets reported at the time, they were carrying $4,000 in cash, box cutters, and, in one man’s case, two passports. The group had been spotted snapping photos of the burning Twin Towers from the roof of their van by onlookers on the Jersey side of the bridge, who had contacted authorities. The Times reported that FBI agents found images of the smoldering buildings on their cell phones. In one image, one of the men, Sivan Kurzberg, held up a lit lighter with the ruins of the towers in the background.
As it turned out, the five men were Israeli Jews who worked for Urban Moving Systems, a household moving company that operated in New York and New Jersey. None of them had any connection whatsoever to the day’s attacks. They were held for 27 days at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center before being deported for overstaying their visas.

The Times pointed out that contemporary news reports left “the wide impression that the authorities had detained a group of suspicious men taking pictures or rooting for the terrorists from the New Jersey side of the bridge.” Those reports also were exaggerated and perpetuated on fringe blogs that took to calling the men the "dancing Israelis."

Rooftop parties

Several news reports in the aftermath of the attacks made vague reference to “rooftop parties” in New Jersey where people were allegedly celebrating the catastrophic event. The allegations recall the general state of paranoia and Islamophobia that became a hallmark of post-9/11 life.
A Washington Post article from Sept. 18, 2001 mentioned an investigation into people throwing “tailgate-style parties” in New Jersey in the hours after the attacks. The article said law enforcement "detained and questioned a number of people who were allegedly seen celebrating the attacks."

Trump drew attention to the Washington Post’s 2001 story on Monday, asking the newspaper for “an apology” on Twitter.

The newspaper reported Monday that the journalists who wrote the piece cannot recall if those allegations were ever confirmed.

An Associated Press story from Sept. 17, 2001 described “rumors of rooftop celebrations of the attack by Muslims” in Jersey City as “unfounded.”

A gathering of teens outside a library

New Jersey philosophy professor Irfan Khawaja and sociologist Gary Alan Fine collaborated on an essay investigating the impact of the rumors about Arab Americans’ reaction to the 9/11 attacks. Though they painstakingly searched for domestic incidents of people celebrating, they could point to only one lukewarm example.
“There is some evidence that a few Arab-American adolescents briefly relieved their political frustration in front of a library in largely Arab South Paterson, New Jersey, in a way that might be defined as ‘celebrating,’” Khajawa and Fine wrote.

“No evidence exists of an organized or sustained celebration of the terrorist attacks,” they continued.

Celebrations abroad

Though there appears to be no video record of American Muslims reveling on Sept. 11, 2001, footage taken by Reuters journalists of Palestinians laughing and cheering in the streets of East Jerusalem was widely circulated at the time. Individual Palestinians celebrated the attack because the US provides millions in military aid to Israel, which occupies territory in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
“Thousands of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip cheered the attack, distributing candy and firing weapons in a show of glee over what they described as a retaliatory blow against U.S. cooperation with Israel,” read an article in The Washington Post. “Palestinians in refugee camps in Lebanon fired weapons into the air in celebration.”

The overwhelming majority of Arab nations and citizens condemned the attacks, holding candlelight vigils and issuing condolences to the victims.

Watch the Reuters footage, which aired on CNN, below: at the link above for all vids n other links.

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RE: WTF? People actually believe this asshole? - 11/24/2015 2:31:43 PM

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Trump is a fucking nutcase.

That's why so many support him.

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RE: WTF? People actually believe this asshole? - 11/24/2015 3:24:06 PM

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your friends dont have the intelligence to be anything but scum, so you just follow your leader

Actually it's your friends who don't have the intelligence to be anything but scum, so you follow your leaders such as the liberal liar Hillary and try to paint others who disagree with your POV as scum.

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