Posted on 08/14/2010 5:44:54 AM PDT by Sergeant Tim
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 9/11 Families for a Safe & Strong America
Statement of Debra Burlingame, Co-founder of 9/11 Families for a Safe & Strong America, in Response to President Obama's Remarks about the Ground Zero Mosque
911 Families Stunned Presidents Support of Mosque at Ground Zero
New York, NY, Aug. 14 -- Barack Obama has abandoned America at the place where America's heart was broken nine years ago, and where her true values were on display for all to see. Since that dark day, Americans have been asked to bear the burden of defending those values, again and again and again. Now this president declares that the victims of 9/11 and their families must bear another burden. We must stand silent at the last place in America where 9/11 is still remembered with reverence or risk being called religious bigots.
Muslims have worshipped in New York without incident both before and after the attacks of 9/11. This controversy is not about religious freedom. 9/11 was more than a "deeply traumatic event," it was an act of war. Building a 15-story mosque at Ground Zero is a deliberately provocative act that will precipitate more bloodshed in the name of Allah. Those who continue to target and kill American civilians and U.S. troops will see it as a symbol of their historic progress at the site of their most bloody victory. Demolishing a building that was damaged by wreckage from one of the hijacked planes in order to build a mosque and Islamic Center will further energize those who regard it as a ratification of their violent and divinely ordered mission: the spread of shariah law and its subjugation of all free people, including secular Muslims who come to this country fleeing that medieval ideology, which destroys lives and crushes the human spirit.
We are stunned by the president's willingness to disregard what Americans should be proud of: our enduring generosity to others on 9/11--a day when human decency triumphed over human depravity. On that day, when 3,000 of our fellow human beings were killed in barbaric act of raw religious intolerance unlike this country had ever seen, Americans did not turn outward with hatred or violence, we turned to each other, armed with nothing more than American flags and countless acts of kindness. In a breathtakingly inappropriate setting, the president has chosen to declare our memories of 9/11 obsolete and the sanctity of Ground Zero finished. No one who has lived this history and felt the sting of our country's loss that day can truly believe that putting our families through more wrenching heartache can be an act of peace.
We will honor the memory of our loved ones. We will protect our children, whose lives will never be the same. We will not stand silent.
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9/11 Families for a Safe & Strong America, Co-founders Debra Burlingame and Tim Sumner, www.911familiesforamerica.org, Contact: media@911familiesforamerica.org
Maybe someone in the city can do some research for us Freepers.
Who is the architect for this obscenity? Find the engineering firm. List them for all to see, and challenge their values.
Hopefully, delays can occur... violations of NYS/NYC building code, etc. Are there any public hearings for building permits where challenges can be made?
Think of creative ways to stall the project as long as possible. Maybe a new mayor, new city council can do something eventually to put the screws to this horror.
I haven’t had a good nights sleep since September 2008
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I know exactly what you mean. I go to bed thinking about and worrying, I wake up doing the same thing. That’s when we decided to consider moving to our vacation home outside the US. Health care passage was the deal breaker so unless there is some drastic change, we will be out of here. Neither of us are are old enough to be on medicare and neither of us have any attention of hanging around and being forced into obongocare.
If Americans grow some and if I’m ever needed here, I can be back within 24 hours even if planes can’t fly in.
Obama = 666 for not shaming them into building elsewhere.
I reacted the same way as you did to the exceedingly overreative response to her use of the word, 'stunned.'
Good grief, people!
They poopooed us when we said he was muslim before the election. What say they now?
Are you kidding?
Muslims around the world would sell their mothers and children for that cause.
The triumph of a Mosque on top of where a Great Satan center of power was violently conquered by Muslims is an absolute must for them.
It's easily explained, really. He's a muslim.
The ONLY thing that keeps me sane through all of this is that God is aware of what is going on and He will step in and stop it when He wants to. We MUST trust God and continue praying to Him.
probably had something to do with chickens coming home to roost.
No one will build it. There’s not a tradesman within 500 miles (or more) of NYC that would lift a hammer on this project.
He also dropped charges on the USS Cole bombing plotter, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE5150DV20090206
Thank you for voting!
Yes, we have a duty to protect freedom of religion 9% (18,233 votes)
No, this is about sensitivity, not religion 82% (166,222 votes)
Partly, but the mosque’s developers still should consider a more appropriate site 7% (13,961 votes)
Other (leave a comment) 2% (4,792 votes)
Total Votes: 203,208
Look at the others in the picture. Look how far down they are looking. See them laughing. He didn’t just bow, he kissed his hand. Look how pleased the King is.
I’m not cheerleading for Sean Hannity, but he was the first public voice I’m aware of who warned about zero’s muzzie ties. That was early in ‘07.
I’m stunned that they’re stunned! I wonder how many of them voted for zero.
The hard left is about 22%, I believe. Who are the other 8%? The uneducated and the simple-minded who are incapable of any critical thinking or refined thought. They hear “freedom of religion” and that’s where it ends, even though freedom of religion has nothing to do with this issue.
If so, then why didn't the Right recognize the danger he posed in late 2007 and early 2008 during the primary season? Why did most on the Right continue to fight the political battles of the 1990's rather than look ahead? Why was most of the Right's focus on defeating Hillary Clinton in the primaries rather than doing everything possible to prevent this monster from gaining power? Why did the Right then -- and still today -- continue to focus on eating their own (i.e., perpetual "RINO" hunt) rather than focusing on the real danger from a resurgent radical Left and its allies in the Islamic world?
Although I am of the political Right, I no longer trust conservatives to put aside their petty differences and intramural squabbling, and really do what is best for this great nation of ours.
I am quite certain Debra Burlingame did NOT vote for Zero.
Now, the Jersey girls... what is THEIR position? The MSM couldn’t wait to shove a microphone in their faces or plant their butts in an interview chair every single time there was something they didn’t like about President Bush.
Where are the Jersey Girls?
Which is a religion of a false god. Either way, anti-God. However, I don’t think he really cares about “affiliation” with any particular relgion...just a means to his agenda - which is much larger than 1 nation or 1 religion.
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