'Airplanes took aim and brought down the World Trade Center': New York Times deletes tweet about 9/11 after outrage
After global outrage, NYT does course correction.
Is political correctness in the modern, woke world going out of hands, where one can't call a spade a spade? All such questions were raised on Twitter when one of world's top news outlet New York Times tried to play coy about who really were behind the Twin Tower attack on 11th September 2001, where over 3000 people were killed.
In a shocking tweet, New York Times said that, "'Airplanes took aim and brought down the World Trade Center'.
It soon lead to a global outrage, particularly it coming on the 18th anniversary of the ghastly incident which shook the collective conscience of humanity. Osama Bin Laden's Al Qaeda attacked symbols of American strength and might, Twin towers and Pentagon.
So many people thought it was grossly disrespectful to the family of the victims that New York Times through their tweet virtually whitewashed the perpetrators of the terror attack. Facing immense pushback, Times finally deleted the tweet for 'clarity'. They also changed the wordings in the story. It is ironic that despite belonging to the same city where the attack took place, NYT could get such a basic story so off the mark.
After outrage, Times edited the text and also included the word terrorists to call out the perpetrators of the terror strike.
A speaker at New York City's Sept. 11 commemoration ceremony on Wednesday assailed U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar, a Muslim member of Congress who has often been the target of false slurs by President Donald Trump and right-wing media outlets.
The speaker's remarks were an unusual deviation into partisan politics and religious division at the somber annual ceremony held at the lower Manhattan site where Islamist al Qaeda hijackers flew planes into the World Trade Center in 2001, killing nearly 3,000 people.
Called up to read some of the names of the victims, Nicholas Haros, whose mother, Frances Haros, was killed in the attack, falsely suggested Omar was confused about the nature of the attack. Echoing Trump, Haros also questioned the Minnesota congresswoman's patriotism."Madam, objectively speaking we know who and what was done," Haros said, addressing Omar, who was not present at the ceremony. "There's no uncertainty about that. Why your confusion? On that day 19 Islamic terrorists, members of al Qaeda, killed over 3,000 people and caused billions of dollars of damage. Is that clear?" His criticism lasted for nearly a minute and a half, and drew a smattering of applause.
"Got that now?" he continued, saying al-Qaeda had attacked the country's "Judeo-Christian" values. "Show respect in honoring them. Please: American patriotism and your position demand it." - Reuters