http://action.afa.net/Blogs/BlogPost.aspx?id=2147494520A group called the American Society for Muslim Advancement is planning to build a 13-story shrine to Islam in the shadow of the skyscrapers at Ground Zero. The shrine to Islam is planning to open on September 11, 2011, and New York officials have agreed to its construction. See Investor's Business Daily.
There may be nothing to it — except that a radical Islamic school in Virginia, raided by the feds after 9/11, also goes by that name. Cordoba University's founder was recently named an unindicted co-conspirator in a terror case. Symbolism is not lost on such jihadists.
New Yorkers should by now have built from that giant hole at ground zero a single, mammoth tower as a one-finger salute to radical Islam and all the terrorists it inspires. Instead, they're building an Islamic tower that Muslim fanatics from around the world will no doubt use as a memorial to their fallen "martyrs" and what they did to us on that "blessed day" of 9/11.
Nelly Braginsky, whose son was murdered on 9/11, says "It's a slap in our face!"
It's also a monumental sign of weakness. Right now, our enemy is laughing at us. And picture this sickening scenario: 9/11 mastermind KSM getting to see workers breaking ground on the ground zero mosque, as Attorney General Eric Holder escorts him to his Manhattan show trial. If we can't keep even ground zero sacred and free of PC, we truly are doomed to suffer another. And another.
This decision is an utter outrage. Who thought it was a good idea to allow a symbol of the faith of the very people who committed the worst ever act of terrorism against the U.S. at Ground Zero? If I was a family member of a victim who perished I would be absolutely livid. Can we possibly bend over any further backwards to show our political correctness?
Incidentally, there was also a reference to Islam planned at the Shanksville, PA, memorial site. The original memorial design called for a pathway in the shape of a crescent moon. Only the protests of the victims' families and other concerned citizens brought about a redesign of that monument.
Below are two images, one of the original Shanksville plan, called the "Crescent of Embrace," which featured a prominent red crescent (see Newser) and one of the apparent final plan for the memorial (see the National Park Service)without the crescent. Ironically, the permanent memorial in Shanksville, PA, is scheduled to be dedicated on September 11, 2011, the same day as the mosque at Ground Zero.
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