Some N.J. Muslims did celebrate 9/11, cop and residents say

Post Standard, Syracuse, New York ^ | December 21, 2015 at 11:45 AM | By Mark Mueller

[joesbucks]

So Trump’s using million man march math for celebration estimates?

[higgmeister]

I think that’s been established. But it’s far from the thousand and thousands of New Jersey Muslims Trump continues to claim he saw celebrating on TV.

How can you attempt to obfuscate and marginalize this evil amoung us!?

There are 2.77 million Muslims in the United States today. In the United States, a 2011 survey found that 86% of Muslims say that such tactics are rarely or never justified. An additional 7% say suicide bombings are sometimes justified and 1% say they are often justified in these circumstances. That one percent is 27,700 very radical Muslims here in our nation. If you factor in the others that believe suicide bombings are sometimes justified and you see that from 27,700 to 221,600 Muslims would dance and cheer the destruction of the World Trade Center.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/12/07/muslims-and-islam-key-findings-in-the-u-s-and-around-the-world/

I remember the stories and pictures on TV and in the newspapers myself.

[higgmeister]

...it is easy to see that it would add up to thousands of people. Just not all at the same place and the same time as Trump claimed.

I never read or heard that Trump said thousands of Muslims were all celebrating in one place. Please provide a link?

[dmz]

Really?

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-saw-thousands-thousands-people-164537580.html

Here’s the quote from the article:

“I watched when the World Trade Center came tumbling down, and I watched in Jersey City, New Jersey, where thousands and thousands of people were cheering as that building was coming down,” he said.

Does that help clear up your misunderstanding for you?