Occam’s Razor says that the simplest explanation is best. Numerous New York and New Jersey residents insist that they or those close to them saw New Jersey Muslims celebrate 9-11. New Jersey radio station 101.5 quotes some of these accounts here. A sampling:
Tom Penicaro: “I worked for PSEG in Clifton on the Paterson boarder and I witnessed it firsthand. They were celebrating in the streets cheering and stomping on the flag. I am a Marine and I remember very very clearly because I was so pissed I wanted to engage them with a bat I had in my van.”
William Hugelmeyer: “I was working in the jail when the attacks occurred. Once it was clear it was a terrorist attack, we had inmates celebrating. This instantly caused a lockdown. As you could imagine, many other inmates and officers didn’t share their jubilation.”
John Pezzino: “They were in the streets banging on the cars trying to drive through the crowd in the street. The Muslims were shouting death to Americans and Allah is great other crap I didn’t understand. We were amused until a car with 3 young women mistakenly turned on to main st. The muslims were banging on their windows and screaming, thats when we came out of our car and pushed the muslims off their car helped them back out and get back to the Parkway.”
Walter Emiliantsev: “I lived in NJ at the time on Demott Ave., Clifton! When I tried to go to Paterson to my brother in laws shop, I usually took Main Ave. There were so many people dancing on Main, I couldn’t get through! I KNOW what I saw!”
Occam’s Razor suggests that when numerous people, using their first and last names in a public forum, and providing concrete details that can be checked, all provide similar accounts of public behavior, chances are they are telling the truth.
i recall some celebrating here. Thousands happened in the Middle East. Some did here. More than a handful i can’t say.
The Muslim celebrations happened, I saw them on CNBC that morning (as did my good FRiend StephenJohnBanker) and many OTHER FReepers.
There is now a concerted effort by the Muslim fifth column in this country to deny that which we know happened. It is the same sort of denial that was witnessed of the local German townspeople who lived nearby the Nazi death camps, they refused to believe, acknowledge or even consider the possibility that such atrocities were happening in their region.
It happened. And denying it demonstrates the cowardice of the denier(s).
Excellent article.
Various sources put the Muslim population of NJ at 160,000 to 200,000.
The minimum number for Trump’s “thousands” claim to be accurate would be 2,000. That means that 1.3% of NJ Muslims would have to have celebrated.
Though nothing can be proven at this late date, that 1.3% is certainly possible.
This is a good article
There may not have been a mob of thousands celebrating in one place but there were certainly 1000’s of small celebrations
What happened to comment #2 by Helicondelta?
Yes. Next question.
The famous video of Rev. Wright pronouncing “America’s chickens have come home to roost!” indicates that the celebration of our distress was viscous continued for sometime after 911.
It doesn’t matter
Don’t know about Jersey, but there were plenty reports of spontaneous celebrations in the DC area. At this point, I don’t care if Trump exaggerated the numbers, but the fact 51% of muslims here in the US (per Pew Research) endorse violence against non-muslims should override any quibbling about the numbers of those celebrating the attacks in 9/11.
What does this mean? Was he actually in Jersey City in a position to watch a crowd of thousands of people cheering? Was he somewhere in NYC or Jersey City watching a TV report showing this response? In any case, there would be video footage of a crowd of thousands cheering and thus far, none has been produced.
Obama lies all the time and Freepers call him on it. When Trump lies, it's the media's fault. Does Trump really believe what he's saying is true or that no one is going to question it?
Does a dog wag its tail when happy? It can’t avoid it. Same with subhuman savages. When they see that another savage has murdered normal people, they are happy.
He should have said that they were dancing for joy in the streets, without giving a location. I remember quite clearly that they were jumping for joy in Palestine. Limiting it to New Jersey allows the media to accuse Trump of lying. The truth is the savages DID dance in the streets. New Jersey is irrelevant.
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What difference, at this point, does it make?