Oh the Narrative!

Muslims Celebrated 9/11

Nevertheless, all that spin cannot change the fact that news reports of American Muslims cheering the fall of the World Trade Center have been found. -John Nolte

Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler writes, “There is absolutely no evidence of the celebration cited by Trump.” Except, of course, for all the proof listed here and a contemporaneous report in his own left-wing newspaper. A report, I should add, that Kessler did not include his initial fact check. -John Nolte Go To Site

"We did have some celebrating, that is true," Giuliani told CNN's "New Day" program. "We had pockets of celebration, some in Queens, some in Brooklyn." Go To Site

We had a number of reports of people celebrating. I remember Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn. There were some in Queens. There were also some in Jersey; Paterson, New Jersey. I think Jersey City. I was receiving intelligence briefings from various guys in the agency, everywhere from intel to some of the guys assigned to the FBI terrorist task force. We were constantly getting these briefings. -Bernard Kerik Go To Site

“Were people celebrating on 9/11? Yes. Is it wrong? Yes. Should you say thousands were? No.” -Chris Cuomo Go To Site

Dan Rather, who was then anchoring the CBS Evening News, tells David Letterman of reports of witnesses who saw Muslims on rooftops celebrating. -John Nolte Go To Site

Egyptians, Palestinians and the Arabs of nearby Paterson, N.J., celebrate attacks in New York and Washington

Liberal, Character, Narrative, Oops, Islam

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. -Fred Siegel, New York Post, Sept. 14 2001

Northern New Jersey Draws Probers' Eyes

Liberal, Character, Narrative, Oops, Terrorism, Islam

In Jersey City, within hours of two jetliners' plowing into the World Trade Center, law enforcement authorities detained and questioned a number of people who were allegedly seen celebrating the attacks and holding tailgate-style parties on rooftops while they watched the devastation on the other side of the river. -Serge F. Kovaleski and Fredrick Kunkle, Washington Post, Sept. 18, 2001

Palestinians dancing in the streets on 9/11