Did New York Post Scrub 2001 Story Because It Supported Donald Trumpâ€™s Claim?â€¦ VIDEO

This is interesting. Mike M via twitter notices a Page Six story from September 2001 disappears from the New York Post.

On September 14th 2001 the New York Post ran an article (Op-Ed) with the headline: "The Issue Is Radical Islam". Within the article you find the following paragraph(s) [emphasis added]:

[â€¦] In Sudan, the Islamic militants impose slavery on captured Dinkas â€“ but wherever radical Islam is in power, it subjugates people it regards as infidels. The Coalition for the Defense of Human Rights, an organization supporting those persecuted by militant Islam, argues that "radical Islamism is a world ideology, fielding a world terror-army, which oppresses millions with a racist ideology" that deems non-Muslims less than fully human.

Here in New York, it was easy to get angry listening to Egyptians, Palestinians and the Arabs of nearby Paterson, N.J., celebrate as they received word of the murderous attacks in New York and Washington. But Mayor Giuliani (who has been tireless and magnificent in this crisis) rightly warned New York- ers that it would be wrong to take their anger out on the city's Arab and Muslim residents. Attacks on Arab-Americans in Paterson or elsewhere are utterly indefensible.

Omar, a Muslim New Yorker and former student of mine at Cooper Union, e-mailed me to say he was "sickened to watch Middle Easterners celebrate our sorrow." He is an American who has imbibed our values while maintaining his Muslim faith. He wants no truck with those who kill in the name of Islam. (link via Wayback Machine â€“ Web Archive)

However, if you search the New York Post â€“ the actual article is no-where to be found on the New York Post website. Current search HERE â€“ Compare to WayBackMachine HERE

It would definitely appear this article was removed (no longer available) at the Rupert Murdoch owned New York Post. Why is that?

As Mike M states, which is the bigger issue? That Trump would exaggerate the number of people celebrating, or that the New York Post would delete evidence of the protest itself?

This New York Post report is also confirmed in an unrelated caller to the Howard Stern Show:

And here's another story within the New York Post specifically discussing how video of Muslims celebrating the 9-11-01 attack was confiscated and deleted. In a massive note of irony, their concern at the time was "censorship":

[â€¦] The PC concern is that the Israelis will somehow "take advantage" of the attacks and therefore that negative stories about Palestinians are to be handled as gingerly as stories about American Arabs and Muslims.

That's why you probably don't know about the Palestinian Authority's death threat against a videographer who took footage of a 4,000-person celebration on Sept. 11 â€“ which led to the seizure of the news footage and its erasure. The fact that bin Laden's allies on the West Bank targeted a news photographer for death for filming Palestinians dancing at the news of the death of 7,000 Americans didn't make it anywhere near the front pages.

The news media usually make a stink when the media are threatened. Not this time. (link)

This second New York Post report about journalist censorship and having footage deleted/destroyed is also confirmed by an independent notice from the Committee to Protect Journalists. READ HERE

CPJ protests harassment of journalists covering West Bank celebrations of U.S. terrorist attacks

September 17, 2001

His Excellency Yasser Arafat
President of the Palestinian National Authority
Al-Muntada, Gaza

Via Facsimile: 972-7-282-2365

Your Excellency:

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) strongly protests recent acts of censorship and intimidation carried out by the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) against journalists covering celebrations among some Palestinians of last Tuesday’s terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C.

On September 11, according to international press reports, Palestinian police and armed gunmen prevented several news photographers and cameramen from documenting events in the West Bank city of Nablus, where groups of Palestinians celebrated the attacks by honking horns and firing live ammunition rounds into the air.

According to The Associated Press, Palestinian security authorities summoned a free-lance cameraman working for the AP that same day and warned him not to air his footage of the events. Members of the Tanzim militia, affiliated with Your Excellency’s Fatah organization, also issued warnings that the AP cameraman interpreted as threatening.

Later, the AP quoted PNA cabinet secretary Ahmed Abdel Rahman as saying that the PNA “[could] not guarantee the life” of the AP cameraman if the film were broadcast. In the end, the footage was not aired, apparently out of concern for the journalist’s safety.

Three days later, on September 14, Palestinian police briefly detained several photographers and cameramen working with international news agencies in the Gaza Strip and confiscated their equipment. The journalists had been covering a rally to commemorate a Palestinian suicide bomber that the militant Islamic group Hamas staged in the Nusseirat refugee camp.

During the rally, one protestor reportedly held up a portrait of Osama bin Laden, the exiled Saudi financier suspected by the United States of orchestrating the recent attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C. Palestinian police later stated that they “confiscated media material which documented illegal acts” at an illegal rally.

Although the PNA returned the journalists’ camera equipment that weekend, some of their video footage had been erased. The AP reported yesterday that its video was missing 45 seconds of footage. Another photographer told CPJ that images stored on his digital camera had been erased.

These acts of intimidation and censorship violate the most fundamental norms of free expression. As a nonpartisan organization of journalists dedicated to defending press freedom worldwide, CPJ urges you to ensure that Palestinian authorities immediately cease threatening and censoring journalists in PNA-controlled areas.

We also urge you to investigate these incidents and prosecute anyone found to have acted illegally in threatening the press. Finally, we call on you to issue a public statement reiterating your personal commitment to protecting the security of journalists and guaranteeing their right to work freely.

Thank you for your attention to this important matter. We look forward to your reply.

Sincerely,

Ann K. Cooper
Executive Director

https://cpj.org/2001/09/cpj-protests-harassment-of-journalists-covering-we.php

Here is the Fred Siegel article of 18 Sept 2001. It mentions Muslim celebrations in Paterson NJ.

I found it here:
http://bahai.uga.edu/News/091801-1.html

I cannot find it at the NY Post. It is copyrighted Fox News. Not NY Post.

Radical Islam At War With America
Tuesday, September 18, 2001
By Fred Seigel

The issue is not Israel. Usama bin Laden blew up a U.S. embassy when the Oslo “peace process” was at the height of its “success.” The issue is the inability of Islamic regimes around the globe to come to grips with the modern world.

What did Israel have to do with the recent Islamic jihad murders in Nigeria? While Islamic terrorists were hitting New York, Muslim militants in northern Nigeria were killing Christians. The violence occurred in the majority Christian city of Jos, where the Nigerian government has imposed the Sharia (Islamic law) on the largely Christian population. The violence began when a Christian woman was attacked after she had the temerity to cross the street in front of a group of Muslim men who had gathered near a Mosque. What followed was three days of killing and burning churches.

Around the world Islamic militants are engaging in a holy war against the infidels - from Coptic Christians in Egypt and the Dinkas in the Sudan, to Hindus in Kashmir, Bahais in Iran, Catholics in the southern Philippines and Christians in East Timor.

In Sudan, the Islamic militants impose slavery on captured Dinkas - but wherever radical Islam is in power, it subjugates people it regards as infidels. The Coalition for the Defense of Human Rights, an organization supporting those persecuted by militant Islam, argues that “radical Islamism is a world ideology, fielding a world terror-army, which oppresses millions with a racist ideology” that deems non-Muslims less than fully human.

Here in New York, it was easy to get angry listening to Egyptians, Palestinians and the Arabs of nearby Paterson, N.J., celebrate as they received word of the murderous attacks in New York and Washington. But Mayor Giuliani (who has been tireless and magnificent in this crisis) rightly warned New Yorkers that it would be wrong to take their anger out on the city’s Arab and Muslim residents. Attacks on Arab-Americans in Paterson or elsewhere are utterly indefensible.

Omar, a Muslim New Yorker and former student of mine at Cooper Union, e-mailed me to say he was “sickened to watch Middle Easterners celebrate our sorrow.” He is an American who has imbibed our values while maintaining his Muslim faith. He wants no truck with those who kill in the name of Islam.

But it’s fair to ask this of those non-Muslims at the BBC, the Nation, the New York Review of Books and other rationalizers of Palestinian and Islamic terror: Why is it that everywhere in the world where Muslims are in the majority, their minorities are persecuted?

And where were these publications, not to mention respectable European leaders, when Yasser Arafat, ranting in front of a world conference at Davos, insisted that Israel was using depleted uranium and nerve gas against Palestinian civilians?

And where were the Europeans at the U.N. “hate” conference in Durban, when Islamophobia was denounced, while Muslim discrimination against non-Muslims was passed over in silence?

It’s also time to ask Arab-American spokesmen like James Zogby, who rightly criticizes anti-Arab bigotry, why he’s silent about the hate that spews daily from the Egyptian and Palestinian media, as with the current hit song “I Hate Israel.”

In Commentary, Fiamma Nirenstein asks if the silence from the West isn’t what Bush, in another context, called “the soft bigotry of low expectations.” No doubt our multiculturalists will explain that, while even mild anger at Arabs by Americans is sign of deep-seated racism, venomous hatred in the Arab world is merely a part of a different culture that can’t be judged by our standards.

For all their grievances against America, there have been no Cuban, Vietnamese or Serbian suicide bombers bringing death to our shores, and their people haven’t been celebrating in the streets at the sight of American blood.

America, not Israel, is The Great Satan. It was hard to acknowledge before the World trade Center attacks, but radical Islam has been at war with us for a long time.

Fred Siegel teaches history at the Cooper Union in New York City.

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