Washington: US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has said that Muslims around the world were "going wild" to cheer the September 11, 2001 attacks.
At the weekend rally in Sarasota, Florida, Trump said, "Everybody admits that worldwide, the Muslims were absolutely going wild."
Earlier this month, the real-estate tycoon invited criticism for his remark that Arab and Muslim Americans had celebrated the terror strikes.
Trump had cited an article by the reporter in The Washington Post saying authorities had detained a number of people allegedly seen cheering on rooftops in New Jersey after the 9/11 attacks on the other side of the river from New York's destroyed World Trade Center towers.
He had also voiced support for a database to track Muslims in the country.
A 2008 Gallup poll found that 7 per cent of Muslims around the world said the 9/11 attacks were completely justified and viewed the United States unfavorably.
