Janet Wilder wrote:

> Boron Elgar wrote:
> > On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:03:22 -0500, Janet Wilder
> > > wrote:
> >
> >> My mother lived in Paterson, NJ and she told me that the Arab community
> >> was celebrating by dancing in the streets.
> >
> > Your mother was misinformed. This never happened and was refuted Arab
> > community leaders, by the mayor, the Paterson police chief and
> > Passaic county sheriff. Please do not contribute to discrimination
> > against Arabs by spreading such a story.
>
> My mother and several of her neighbors were right there and saw it
> personally. They would not lie. They had no reason to lie.
>
> We have a relative with the NYC news media and when I asked him about
> this about face of the mayor, etc. he told me that the State and Federal
> government had gone to all the media and told them to withhold the story
> from publication because it would create "open season" on Arabs all over
> the US, some of whom were not guilty of such evil behavior.
>
> Ask me if I care if people who danced in the streets when Americans died
> are deserving of my concern about "discrimination".
>
> > On the other hand, there was some very interesting , if harrowing
> > backlash right nearby. I live one town over from Paterson, where the
> > next night someone shot out the windows of a local business that was
> > owned by an Indonesian Muslim. This I know to be true, because I
> > stopped by the store, some of its front glass boarded over, and a
> > place I had never been in before, to speak to the owner and his
> > family about the incident.
>
>
> I guess that's why the media was ordered to hush-hush the Paterson
business.
>
> BTW, a few days after 9/11 I met some young people who were attending
> Penn State and lived in the dorms. They talked about the Arab students
> in their dorm building partying that night.
>
> I'm sure not all Arabs were celebrating that night, but there were those
> who did and I know from the first hand experience of several people whom
> I trust.


Yup, there was a media "lockdown" on any "positive" reaction in US
Arab/Muzlim communities to the events surrounding 9/11...such are the evils
of political correctness...

IIRC Boron is Jewish - she should take a gander at what is said about Jews -
or in fact *any* non - muzlims - at any mosque in her area...what they spew
would make a Julius Streicher orgasm in gleeful delight.


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Best
Greg