Against Trump: 9/11 Muslim Candlelight vigils Sympathizing with US

[kpete]

The meme that Muslims celebrated the attacks of 9/11 has always been mostly a piece of false propaganda. Most people in the Muslim world were appalled and frightened. There was some Schadenfreude among some Palestinians who had been kicked out of their homes and reduced to poverty by US policy, but they were hardly typical, even of Palestinians (the Palestinian leadership of Fateh, which is secular and hates al-Qaeda, roundly condemned the attacks). Donald Trump, who never met a piece of false racist propaganda he did not like, has now picked this despicable libel up, applying it incorrectly to Muslim Americans of New Jersey, and it spread from there to Dr. Ben Carson, who never met a conspiracy theory he didn’t like. Trump set the alleged celebrations in New Jersey (Muslims living a stone’s throw from a mass murder of thousands would have been for more likely to worry about their security than anything else.)

There are still photos on the internet of Muslims doing candlelight vigils in empathy with the victims of those horrific terrorist attacks in September of 2001. Here are a few:


Bangladesh

Iran

“U.S. Muslims sing “God Bless America” September 13, 2001 in Pasadena, CA, at an Interfaith Memorial Service for victims of the September 11 terrorist …”


more pics & videos:
http://www.juancole.com/2015/11/against-candlelight-sympathizing.html

[leftynyc]

1. THAT'S what I remember

I'm sure donald confused those celebrations in Gaza with whatever stupid fantasy he has in his head about New Jersey but he wont apologize or walk it back. It would show weakness (in his and his teabagging supporter's minds) and he'd rather be known as a liar than weak.