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- The 9/11 Memorial At Ground Zero
From the Washington Times:We can have a Ground Zero Mosque, but not a memorial that actually memorializes 9/11 ...Instead of acting as a constant reminder of the attacks, a symbol for us and future generations of the evil that struck, the death and destruction...
- Mummy Jihad: Muslims Behead Two Mummies
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- How Many Different Ways Do We Have To Tell Muslims, They Are Not Welcome
From Ace of Spades: It would never even occur to me, or any decent person, to erect a Museum of American Achievements in Aviation in Hiroshima. This is not a joke -- I am not saying a museum celebrating the bomb. I am saying a museum that does exactly...
- 9/11 Museum To Focus On The Horror Of The Attacks: Liberals Angry
From the New York Observer: Re-Remembering 9/11: The New Ground Zero MuseumVisitors standing in a 120,000-square-foot cavern below where the north tower once stood will be confronted with not just the names but the faces of the 2,982 fallen. Artifacts...
- Groups Protest Cross On Tower
finally a mayor with some balls. from The Reading Eagle Groups protest cross on tower City does not respond to letters; ACLU asks that lawsuit be filed By Don Spatz Reading Eagle Reading, PA - The Easter cross on the city-owned William Penn Memorial Fire...
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The September 11 Cross
Check out this editorial written by the Editorial Board of the Washington Post:
A misguided lawsuit targets the ‘World Trade Center cross’
By Editorial, Published: August 9
SEARCHING FOR survivors amid the rubble that was the World Trade Center, workers 10 years ago unearthed two steel beams joined together at right angles. The 17-foot cross — to some, a sign of comfort and faith in the most nightmarish of times — became part of the story of New York City’s recovery from the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. To omit it from the National September 11 Memorial and Museum — as a misguided lawsuit seeks to do — is tantamount to ripping out a page of history.
The American Atheists, a New Jersey-based nonprofit, filed suit last month in New York’s Supreme Court in Manhattan seeking to bar the “World Trade Center cross” from going on display when the Ground Zero museum opens in September. The lawsuit, which names multiple defendants, including Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and the World Trade Center Foundation, contends that inclusion of the cross violates the U.S. Constitution and New York civil rights law. It argues that the cross, a symbol of Christianity, has no place in a museum that is on government property and receives some government support, though it is run by a private foundation.
Under that logic, it would seem the National Gallery of Art would have to banish its religious art — or that any group that receives government help must forfeit First Amendment rights of expression in choosing what to exhibit. In other controversies involving the display of crosses — outside San Diego and in the Mojave Desert — government, to our mind, twisted its rules for the express purpose of maintaining a religious display. Does anyone really think that this museum was built for the express purpose of displaying the cross? Or that there is no secular significance to the steel beams that became part of the landscape of Ground Zero?
“We have a responsibility at the museum to use the authentic artifacts that really came from the site itself to tell the story of not only what happened on 9/11, but the nine-month recovery period,” Joseph C. Daniels, museum president and chief executive, told the New York Times. The cross is as historically important as the smashed New York City fire truck that will go on display or the flagpole from the World Trade Center. Yes, it is a powerful symbol of faith to some, but that should not banish it from a museum that will give tribute to the very American attributes of freedom and tolerance that the Sept. 11 attackers sought to destroy.
- The 9/11 Memorial At Ground Zero
From the Washington Times:We can have a Ground Zero Mosque, but not a memorial that actually memorializes 9/11 ...Instead of acting as a constant reminder of the attacks, a symbol for us and future generations of the evil that struck, the death and destruction...
- Mummy Jihad: Muslims Behead Two Mummies
From CNN: Vandals ripped the heads off two mummies and tossed relics onto the ground in Cairo's Egyptian Museum, the country's antiquities chief said Sunday. But the group of about nine people did not manage to steal anything from the museum's...
- How Many Different Ways Do We Have To Tell Muslims, They Are Not Welcome
From Ace of Spades: It would never even occur to me, or any decent person, to erect a Museum of American Achievements in Aviation in Hiroshima. This is not a joke -- I am not saying a museum celebrating the bomb. I am saying a museum that does exactly...
- 9/11 Museum To Focus On The Horror Of The Attacks: Liberals Angry
From the New York Observer: Re-Remembering 9/11: The New Ground Zero MuseumVisitors standing in a 120,000-square-foot cavern below where the north tower once stood will be confronted with not just the names but the faces of the 2,982 fallen. Artifacts...
- Groups Protest Cross On Tower
finally a mayor with some balls. from The Reading Eagle Groups protest cross on tower City does not respond to letters; ACLU asks that lawsuit be filed By Don Spatz Reading Eagle Reading, PA - The Easter cross on the city-owned William Penn Memorial Fire...