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erpowers

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14. Reports Are Not Proof
Wed Dec 2, 2015, 10:11 AM
Dec 2015

It does not matter that there were reports of muslims celebrating on 9/11. In the 90s there were many reports that fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger had stated, on the Oprah Winfrey Show, that he did not want black people wearing his clothing. Multiple people I knew told me they had actually seen that episode of Winfrey's show. A few years ago, Winfrey had Hilfiger on her show so that both of them could say Hilfiger had never made those comments on her show. People, both on and off the internet, have claimed that fashion designer Liz Claiborne stated on a network TV show (sometimes listed as the Oprah Winfrey Show) that she was a Satanist and gave some of her profits to the Church of Satan. This story was also not true. There have been many other instances where people have claimed to have seen someone say something controversial. Just because there is a report does not mean the story is true.

Someone could also ask how many of the reports of muslims celerbating were actually true. I saw a clip from MTV News in which a women was shown to 2001 claiming that she had seen about a dozen muslims were celebrating the 9/11 attacks. The woman claimed that young people around the ages of 12-13 were destroying public property and screaming "burn America". It seems now she claims that she only saw a bunch of kids, who were let out of school early, being stupid, but not screaming "burn America". How many people saw that woman in 2001 and then began claiming that they had saw what she claimed to see? How many people then took the story and exaggerated what the first woman claimed? How many people instead of seeing a dozen kids celebrating saw thousand of adults celebrating?

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