Muslims across the world cheered fall of Twin Towers: Trump
US presidential candidate Donald Trump has caused more controversy by saying that not only Arab Muslims in New Jersey cheered the September 11, 2001 attacks, but Muslims across the world celebrated the fall of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center.
“Worldwide, the Muslims were absolutely going wild,” Trump said on Saturday speaking at a campaign rally in Sarasota, Florida.
The New York billionaire has come under fire for saying that he watched thousands of American Muslims in Jersey City cheering the collapse of the World Trade Center on 9/11 in New York, and proposing a plan to establish IDs and a database to track American Muslims.
The controversial remarks have apparently a toll on the Republican frontrunner, who has seen his support in Reuters/Ipsos opinion polling of GOP voters nationally take a sharp downturn in the past week.
In the past five days, Trump’s support has fallen by 12 points. The decline in his popularity among Republicans is the biggest since he leapt to the top of the field in July, according to the poll released on Friday.
However, Trump is not backing down from his controversial claim that Muslims cheered as the Twin Towers fell on 9/11.
He has told NBC News that he has "the world’s greatest memory" and everybody knows about this, insisting that his claims were valid and flaunted the support he said he received on his Twitter page.
Trump also demanded apologies from those people who dared to doubt his recollection of the 9/11 attacks. “I want an apology,” he tweeted. "Many people have tweeted that I am right.”
The September, 11, 2001 attacks, also known as the 9/11 attacks, were a series of strikes in the US which killed nearly 3,000 people and caused about $10 billion worth of property and infrastructure damage.
US officials assert that the attacks were carried out by 19 al-Qaeda terrorists but many experts have raised questions about the official account.
They believe that rogue elements within the US government, such as former Vice President Dick Cheney, orchestrated or at least encouraged the 9/11 attacks in order to accelerate the US war machine and advance the Zionist agenda.
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