12/4/2015, 6:52 pm

Ground Zero
On February 1, 2006, there was a nationwide Anti-Islamofascist Rally, organized by the United American Committee. According to their press release, the purpose of the rally was to find and report those who:
There was no mention of this event in the media. The gathering of anti-Islamofascists was small (perhaps a dozen or so people), but it is worth discussing the event because of who else showed up.
Counter-protesters appeared at the rally from the group Islamic Thinkers Society. These counter-protesters heckled the anti-Islamofascists and threatened to take over America.
The above photo is the only known photo of the counter-protesters at this event. You can see, in the background, the surrounding World Trade Center buildings.
According to WND.com, the ITS is affiliated with terrorist groups:
While ITS appearances have seemed to dwindle in recent years, in their heyday (the decade after 9/11/01), they promoted terrorism at different events around New York City.
The ITS are notorious for stomping on the American flag in a famous video, which is still on their YouTube account. A report of this incident states, "On June 8, 2005 the ITS publicly desecrated and ripped up an American flag on the street in New York City during a rally on 74th Street and 37th Avenue in the borough of Queens."
On February 17, 2006, sixteen days after the Ground Zero event, ITS protested Mohammad cartoons at the Danish consulate on 2nd Avenue and 48th Street in Manhattan, expressing cries of "We will kill you," and "Next time we will get all of NYC."
On April 20, 2006, the ITS appeared at the Israeli consulate on 42nd Street and 2nd Avenue in Manhattan, where they shouted, "The mushroom cloud is on its way! The real holocaust is on its way!"
The ITS heckled Americans at other events, like at Ahmadinejad's September 24, 2007, Columbia speech, where he said, "In Iran we don't have homosexuals, like in your country."
On June 6, 2010, two wannabe jihadists, Mahmood Alessa and Carlos Eduardo Almonte, were arrested on the way to join an al Qaeda group in Somalia. Alessa stated to an undercover agent that he was anxious to "shed blood." Almonte is the subject of a notorious photo where he holds a sign that says, "Death to All Juice." The two had attended an ITS rally just days earlier, on June 1, 2010, at the Israeli embassy, pictured here.
Samir Khan, an editor of al-Qaeda magazine Inspire, was formerly associated with ITS before he left for Yemen. Khan was killed in a drone strike while accompanying Anwar Al-Awlaki in 2011.
Proof of ITS February 1, 2006, appearance at Ground Zero is found on their website, www.islamicthinkers.com. They state:
What else has been whitewashed by the media?
There was much outrage from progressives after Donald Trump claimed to see "thousands and thousands of Muslims celebrating" 9/11 in New Jersey. While Trump may have exaggerated the numbers, the "celebration" aspect was widely acknowledged at that time. Terrorists and their sympathizers had been running rampant around the New York area for years.
This CBS 2 New York broadcast is one that many people remember seeing, but was brushed off as "rumor" until this bootleg recording of a VHS tape showed up.
The report shows police raiding apartments on 6 Tonnele Avenue in Jersey City, NJ, and arresting two suspects there. The suspects, Ayub Ali Khan and Mohammad Jaweed Azmath, were cleared of 9/11 involvement, but both were convicted of credit card fraud and immigration violations. The building was chock full of other suspicious characters. The superintendent claimed to have seen Mohammad Atta there.
The police also raided apartments two blocks away, at the Sevilla Grande apartments at 2801 JFK Blvd. According to the CBS report, the apartment was:
The FBI and other terrorist task force agencies then arrived and the older investigators on the task force recalled that they had been to this building before - eight years ago - when the first World Trade Center attack led them to Sheik Omar Abdul Rahman, whose Jersey City mosque lies between the two buildings getting attention today. And the older investigators remembered that suspects who eventually got convicted for the first Trade Center case - followers of Sheik Rahman - lived in the building where these same eight men were celebrating the destruction that they saw from the roof. Calling this a 'hot address,' the task force investigators ordered everyone detained.
They saw something else - a model of the Trade Center, on the roof, along with sets of binoculars, the kind of model used by an architect or an engineer for a presentation, an investigator told me. They knew, he said, that the planes were going to hit, and they wanted a ringside seat.
Remember - part of what motivates Osama Bin Laden against the United States, he has told followers, is that the United States put Sheik Rahman in jail. Bin Laden has said that for that, the U.S. must pay."
Pablo Guzman, the CBS news anchor, is now downplaying the number of witnesses and celebrators he originally reported as fact, apparently not realizing that it only takes one witness and one celebrator for there to be a story. Insinuating that he exaggerated his report only hurts his own credibility. If so many media figures are denying what they originally reported, why should we trust anything that they say, ever?
If a tree falls in the forest...
An interesting fact about CBS 2 New York is that they were the only local news outlet to be able to broadcast out of New York after 9/11. One of their transmitter antennas was located on top of the Empire State Building, while all other news stations had their antennas on top of the World Trade Center (h/t American Rattlesnake 1, 2, 3.)
Perhaps this is why so many people remember this CBS report. Also, helicopter air traffic was grounded from the morning of 9/11 until September 28, 2001, preventing helicopter footage from being filmed by any news network. This is why there is no footage of the rooftop celebrations.
According to The Last Refuge, CBS denied that any footage of this sort existed, and The Last Refuge says that it is up to citizens to provide this evidence themselves, from their old videotape collections, since the media is denying their own broadcasts.
It wasn't until a popular republican started running for office that denials of radical Islamic protests took shape. The media is taking advantage of that time, when there were no camera phones or social media, to claim that certain events never happened.
If a tree falls in the forest, and no one hears it, does it make a sound? If Islamists celebrate 9/11, and it's not on YouTube, did it really happen? Perhaps if we could see the future, many of us would have carried around bulky, expensive video cameras, and kept up with VHS tapes for 14 years, just to avoid now being called liars.
Scrubbing the internet
Another media-whitewashing incident involves a NY Post editorial by Fred Siegel. On September 14, 2001, he wrote, "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."
Private investigator Bill Warner discovered that Siegel's article was scrubbed from the NY Post website and is now only available through internet archives. The Wayback Machine shows that it was probably removed around November 15, 2001. Also published on Fox News on September 18, 2001, the article was removed from that website as well, sometime before 2012.
Siegel's article lends credence to the widespread knowledge that celebrations took place at that time. However, Siegel's credibility is in the process of being destroyed. The larger point of his article was to prevent discrimination against Muslims, which would typically make progressives happy. But since part of his article confirms that there were celebrations, his influence must be diminished.
However, what should be of real concern here is that the article was removed from two websites. Why was it removed?
More changing stories
On November 17, 2001, MTV aired a documentary called "Fight For Your Rights: Aftermath of Terror." In one segment with Curtis Sliwa, he interviews a caller who saw people celebrating in front of the library, at 930 South Main Street in Paterson, NJ. The documentary also follows a young woman who relates, in detail, the extent of the celebrating she saw:
MTV gleefully titles the 2015 update "Trump Is Wrong About People 'Cheering' 9/11 In New Jersey — We Dug Up The Video That Proves It", completely leaving out the fact that it was their own 2001 broadcast that they dug up, which originally helped disseminate the Paterson story.
The media has not asked Acevedo why she has changed her story over the years, but we are supposed to believe that Trump is definitely a liar. We should believe what Acevedo now claims she saw then, but not what Trump (a privileged white male) saw.
New Jersey saturated with extremists
A professor from New Jersey, Irfan Khawaja, is being paraded around as having the definitive debunking of the Paterson incident. He went to Paterson and talked to some people, but he believes the case is now closed.
Even Khawaja, with all of his research, doesn't deny that celebrations took place in front of the South Paterson library. One witness, a former parole officer, saw "an American flag hanging upside down." But Khawaja belittles the celebrations as only lasting "five or ten minutes" (as if this is any less troubling.)
In addition to the Jersey City suspects arrested in the CBS report, and the celebrators seen in front of the Paterson library, northern New Jersey was a hotbed. The New York Times said, "Simply, put, if the rubble of the World Trade Center is ground zero in America's war with terrorists, then New Jersey is its staging area."
- Some hijackers rented apartments on Union Avenue in Paterson;
- At least two hijackers purchased their plane tickets from a New Jersey library.
In the end of the interview, Khawaja claims to be completely neutral:
He concludes with, "Trump's claims are blatant, obvious lies. There is nothing more to be said about them."
That's it, folks. Just like with global warming, the science is settled and no other opinions are allowed. This guy sounds totally impartial, especially for a brand-new Democrat.
Khawaja is a scholar with a large collection of writings available online.
In one article, Khawaja compares al Qaeda to the American Confederacy (September 6, 2004). Interestingly, Khawaja alludes to here, with credence, the same Washington Post article that he later rejects in his 2015 definitive celebration rebuttal. Here is an excerpt:
Other authors, linked to Khawaja, have treated the celebration incidents as nothing more than urban legend, but don't provide any evidence that they didn't happen.
International celebrating
The international response to 9/11, even among self-proclaimed "moderate Muslims," was troubling. Here is a video clip of Muslims calling into a West Midlands, UK, BBC radio show on September 13, 2001. Both callers suggest that the U.S. got what it deserved:
Here is a BBC clip of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, followed by the infamous Jerusalem candy parade. The narrator says, "For some, though, in the Middle East, American suffering has been a time for jubilation."
This CNN news report called "Why America is Hated," strives to help Americans understand what they did to rile up such anger, a.k.a. Victim Blaming, with more clips of the candy parade.
Was Trump right?
While Donald Trump was likely exaggerating the number of Muslims celebrating at one event, it doesn't change the fact that 9/11 celebrating happened, people saw it, and police investigated. Even one celebrator is one too many. However, the combined stories indicate that altogether there was much more than one.
A former FBI agent states that he received "stacks and stacks" of complaints about Muslims celebrating. (By the way, defenders of Islamic Thinkers Society call stomping of the flag "free speech," but so is "celebrating from the rooftops." Why would progressives be concerned about debunking the latter, but not the former?)
Let's analyze the larger point that Trump was trying to make. Does it matter if there was a thousand sympathizers, or a dozen? Does it matter if it was in Pakistan, or Paterson? Islamic extremists are already here, and more are on the way.
This recent study finds that dozens of ISIS-related crimes have been charged all over the US - 71 in the past year - a record high.
It doesn't matter if there are only one of them (like at Fort Hood or Oklahoma), or two of them (like in Boston or San Bernardino), and it doesn't matter if there's an easily-crossable border in between. Numbers and borders mean nothing to a jihadist.
None of the above examples equate to "thousands" of Muslims celebrating at once, but as a whole, they certainly support Trump's claim that he saw Muslims celebrating 9/11. Anyone who denies this, after looking at the evidence, is being dishonest.



