This is what Barack Obama said following 9/11:
“In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans have a more urgent quality, for the stories of detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging. I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”
Stand with the muslims cheering in America? It happened even if it is politically unpopular to remind people of it.
There was a Pakistani on the city payroll in Houston who wrote in an email to someone else (internal office) that he was happy about the attacks. His email was uncovered as he was under investigation for soliciting a co-worker for prostitution.
Of course, he didn't say that, now did he?
Accurate quote:
"Of course, not all my conversations in immigrant communities follow this easy pattern. In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans, for example, have a more urgent quality, for the stories of detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging. They have been reminded that the history of immigration in this country has a dark underbelly; they need specific reassurances that their citizenship really means something, that America has learned the right lessons from the Japanese internments during World War II, and that I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction."He wrote those words in 2007 which I guess, technically, is "following 9/11" as you state. He's talking about the mistreatment of American citizens, specifically immigrants and uses Muslims as an example. You have a problem with that?“The Audacity of Hope,” 2007, page 261 (paperback version)