Miami – United States Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump ramped up his incendiary rhetoric on Saturday, claiming that Muslims around the world were “going wild’’ to cheer the September 11, 2001 attacks. Earlier this month, the real-estate tycoon invited scrutiny after saying that Arab and Muslim Americans had celebrated the terror strikes. He also voiced support for a database to track Muslims in the country. But at the weekend rally in Sarasota, Florida, Trump took it a step further. “Everybody admits that worldwide, the Muslims were absolutely going wild,’’ Trump told a crowd of supporters. In fact, several Arab and Muslim leaders — including late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Libyan strongman Moamer Kadhafi – condemned the attacks at the time. A 2008 Gallup poll found that only seven percent of Muslims around the world said the 9/11 attacks were “completely’’ justified and viewed the United States unfavorably. In his [...]
