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9/11 Families for a Safe & Strong America
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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
9/11 Families Stunned by 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
Contact: [email protected]
- Daily Beast Writer Villifies Debra Burlingame
A writer for the Daily Beast who may be Muslim named Dean Obeidallah has written a hit piece against the lady whose brother was murdered in the 9-11 jihad, because he despises her possible support for the documentary video to be screened at the memorial...
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Must-See Film on Ground Zero Mosque ControversyFrom PJM: An interview with Pamela Geller, one of the producers of The Ground Zero Mosque: Second Wave of 9/11 Attacks. As the tenth anniversary of 9/11 approaches, a movie about the Ground Zero mosque...
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Obama backtracks over Ground Zero mosque after furious 9/11 families label him 'insensitive and uncaring' From the Daily Mail: Friday: 'Let me be clear: As a citizen and as President I believe that Muslims have the same right ... to build...
- Nuge!
Washington Times: NUGENT: Every day is Memorial Day We owe America's warriors who gave their lives for freedom By Ted Nugent 5:38 p.m., Friday, May 28, 2010 I live to remember. I have not forgotten that America is still at war in Iraq and Afghanistan,...
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9/11 Families Outraged by Plans to Build Mosque Next to Ground Zero, Rip Muslim Group for “Trying to Rewrite History”From Weasel Zippers: It’s absurd when an Islamic group thinks it’s a good idea to build a giant mosque next to Ground...
Green Energy
9/11 Families for a Safe & Strong America
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
9/11 Families Stunned by 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
Contact: [email protected]
- Daily Beast Writer Villifies Debra Burlingame
A writer for the Daily Beast who may be Muslim named Dean Obeidallah has written a hit piece against the lady whose brother was murdered in the 9-11 jihad, because he despises her possible support for the documentary video to be screened at the memorial...
-
Must-See Film on Ground Zero Mosque ControversyFrom PJM: An interview with Pamela Geller, one of the producers of The Ground Zero Mosque: Second Wave of 9/11 Attacks. As the tenth anniversary of 9/11 approaches, a movie about the Ground Zero mosque...
-
Obama backtracks over Ground Zero mosque after furious 9/11 families label him 'insensitive and uncaring' From the Daily Mail: Friday: 'Let me be clear: As a citizen and as President I believe that Muslims have the same right ... to build...
- Nuge!
Washington Times: NUGENT: Every day is Memorial Day We owe America's warriors who gave their lives for freedom By Ted Nugent 5:38 p.m., Friday, May 28, 2010 I live to remember. I have not forgotten that America is still at war in Iraq and Afghanistan,...
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9/11 Families Outraged by Plans to Build Mosque Next to Ground Zero, Rip Muslim Group for “Trying to Rewrite History”From Weasel Zippers: It’s absurd when an Islamic group thinks it’s a good idea to build a giant mosque next to Ground...