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'Is it really that hard to say terrorist attack?'
The NAACP on Friday morning — the 19th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks against the United States — posted a tweet that stated, "Today we remember all the lives lost and families affected during the horrific incident that occurred in 2001." It included a photo of the tribute lights in place of the fallen World Trade Center towers and a "NeverForget" hashtag.
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As you might expect, pretty much all initial commenters were livid over the word "incident," which they viewed as a way of skating around the fact that radical Islamic terrorists carried out the planned attack that took nearly 3,000 lives that morning.
Some of the responses:
A number of commenters likened the tweet's wording to that of far-left U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, who last year infamously characterized the events of 9/11 as "some people did something."