I don't recall seeing the kind of public Muslim celebration here in the US that Trump is talking about, but every Muslim I knew at the time - and there were several - was individually thrilled and cheered bin Laden's attacks.
I was astounded and angry about it.
Some of these people were my friends.
Given that and given the extent of the public celebrations in parts of the Muslim world that I saw on TV, I find claims that no public Muslim celebrations happened anywhere in the US incredible.
Within a week, the left in America was in total, aggressive denial that any Muslim, anywhere in the world, had been openly cheering the most successful blow against America, "the far enemy," struck by any Muslim up to that time, insisting that there had only been mass demonstrations of Muslim sympathy of the sort TV news had begun broadcasting.
When the America political and media elites want it to, a really hot, days-long, continuous story involving a flood of images and seemingly constant narration can disappear in an instant, as did the story of new cases of Ebola springing up in the West during the quarantine controversy, and as did the story of mass public celebrations of OBL's stunning blow throughout the Islamic world.
Meanwhile, some in the media grow ever more frenzied in their attacks on Trump.
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