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Muslim leader decries Trump claim of 9/11 celebrations, challenges him to come

A Donald Trump adviser is providing what he claims is proof the GOP presidential contender was correct in asserting he saw New Jersey Muslims celebrating the 9/11 terror attack – but CBS News reports the video stirs up problems with Trump’s story. I thought the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act meant that the citizens of this country had become more accepting and tolerant of people with disabilities. “This guy is a humble guy and has a heart for people”, Parson said. Many of those invited to the event say they had no intention of endorsing the billionaire businessman and former reality television star.

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“He did not offer an apology in our presence”, Couzens said, “so I don’t know if he plans to apologize in the future, if he will or if he will not”.

ABC News reports, Trump’s campaign initially promoted the meeting as an endorsement, sending out press material to outlets and concluded a press conference would be held afterward, but later canceled the conference and no media was allowed to attend. But on Tuesday, MTV News republished the full news report that showed a young New Jersey resident saying she saw “13, maybe 14 at most” teenagers celebrating.

CAVUTO: He was mentioning New Jersey.

Nihad Awad, the executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said the Republican Party should distance itself from Trump’s remarks or else his “bigotry” will be a part of the party’s legacy. “I know for sure that is completely untrue”, Waheed Khalid, president of a cemetery for the Muslim community known as Jersey State Memorial Park, told CNN. “I won’t do the debate unless they pay me $5 million and the cash goes to wounded warriors or vets”. Six of the eight, Guzman reported, lived in the building, which Guzman was told was “swarming with suspects”.

MTV, which conducted a video interview days after the attack in which a teenager, Emily Acevedo, from Paterson, N.J., claimed to have seen teens in her city – which has one of the nation’s largest Muslim populations – celebrating, released a new video featuring an updated interview with her. “And when it happened, they celebrated”. Giuliani said that he had heard of isolated celebrations of “10, 12, 30, 40” people around New York’s boroughs, not the “thousands” that Trump asserts celebrated from New Jersey.

The Rev. Darrell Scott, senior pastor of the New Spirit Revival Center in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, helped organize the meeting with Trump.

Curtis Sliwa – doing tv commentary on 9/13/2001. “Right? People were celebrating, he’s right about that…”

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Thanks @realDonaldTrump for the trip down memory lane. “People are saying that about you, ‘” Bloomer told The AP. We then asked about a ban specifically on assault weapons for Muslims, and 56% of Trump voters support that to only 22% who are opposed.

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