Jersey City, NJ – The leader of a national Muslim-American organization characterized Donald Trump’s unsubstantiated claim that he saw Jersey City residents celebrating on the day of the 2001 terrorist attacks as “vicious” and invited the Republican presidential candidate to come to the city and meet with Muslims.
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Nihad Awad, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said Thursday that Trump has produced no evidence to back up his claim last month that he saw television reports of “thousands of people” in Jersey City cheering as the Twin Towers fell Sept. 11, 2001.
Trump also has said he would use a database to track Muslims in the U.S. if he’s elected. And Awad said Trump should be held “at least partly responsible” for an uptick in hostility toward Muslims in the U.S. because of his anti-Muslim rhetoric.
Both Republican Gov. Chris Christie, a presidential candidate, and Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop, a Democrat, say Trump’s claim is wrong.
“The fact is people can say whatever they like,” Christie said Monday while campaigning. “But the facts are the facts, and that did not happen in New Jersey that day, and it hasn’t happened since.”
Trump’s campaign didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday.
Don’t go, its a trap the Muslims will kill you and everybody around you.
Why doesn’t the liberal AP report on the fact that Giuliani and the police commissioner at the time, said it did, among many other eyewitnesses!
I challenge the Muslim “leader” and all his cronies to come out and condemn the terrorism of their brethren! How about a peace rally? I haven’t seen even one from the leaders of the religion of peace. Silence = Agreement.
Typical Moslem response, find anyone else to blame but yourself. Find someone Jewish, even better!
Side point. I have a hard time trusting anyone with a combover.
Lol with the current political climate (and I don’t mean global warming) and the somber and fearfully mood of the american People, I don’t think this Islamist Is going to get much attention or sympathy.
Why is everyone bashing muslims? Its pure racism. You dont like it when everyone says that all jews are cheaters, child molesters etc… just because a handful of sickos exist!! So we better not do the same to any other race. Just because there are some that want to harm us doesn’t mean they all do. There are many muslims that just want to live in peace just like you and I.
First things first…. CAIR is part of the muslim brotherhood – a workplace violence organization,
Second, someone should tell this male donkey yishmaeli that the videos are out again showing TRUMP WAS CORRECT.
WTF is wrong with Christie???
לא ראיתי אינו ראיה
How on earth can he be “so certain” that “it’s a fact” that it did not happen????
If he didn’t see the sun rise this morning, that that mean that it did not happen???
Why is everyone bashing muslims? Its pure racism. You dont like it when everyone says that all jews are cheaters, child molesters etc… just because a handful of sickos exist!! So we better not do the same to any other race. Just because there are some that want to harm us doesn’t mean they all do. There are many muslims that just want to live in peace just like you and I.