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
I’am sure that the first words out of obama’s mouth when he heard about the twin towers
“PRAISE ALLAH”
“And I think his demented self-confidence will make people accept it.”
Accept what, Islamic domination? No way in hell.
I’m going to make a prediction right now, and bear in mind that I’m right about as often as Dick Morris in my predictions, that this endorsement of that mosque within eyesight of ground zero will be the LAST STRAW for Obama.
He’s slipping badly any way yet even with a devistating election facing him come November, his party stands with him-shame on them all and a pox on their houses-Obama manages to stay up there with favorables that erode slowly but steadily.
But to do this.....maybe the country won’t go on strike or indulge in riots in the street, but whatever little bit of approval the man had has now died.
But you forget, he is NOT a “US President”, he is US President that the WORLD wanted FOR US and is going to make sure that America pays for all the EVIL that it has inflicted on the rest of the world. In HIS opinion, America is NOT exceptional and needs to brought down to size, and HE is doing a fine job of that!
He is a saudi agent elected with saudi money which has ownership in US TV. Keep watching Tv and paying for cable and sat TV. It helps destroy your country much faster. Fox Saudia is just as bad.
Obamamosque
Has anyone seen this?
Can you imagine what would happen if George Bush said that we needed more Methodists in his administration?
http://www.denverpost.com/search/ci_12006596
both foreign born hitler(austria) obama (kenya)
Hitler led his nation down a path of destruction.
obama is leading America down a path of destruction.
both followered a “religion of hate” Hitler(Nazi)obama(Islam)
And don’t forget George Soros and other anti-Americans.
And everybody sat there quietly. No dissent whatsoever.
Nuke Mecca and build a church there.
He is pure Evil.
Obama is the left's reaction to Bill Clinton.
Both Obama and Clinton are tyrannical, anti American Marxists of sorts.
But Bill Clinton tried to remain in power for 8 eights so he had to make an appearance of moving to the center and he accomplished less of the Marxist agenda.
So they went out and got this Obama guy.
Obama, worries little about getting elected and goes full speed ahead with his anti American tyrannical philosophy.
Clinton ultimately succeeded in staying in office for 8 years, will Obama succeed in destroying America in four?
I would like to know how many of these "stunned people" voted for this POS?
Why are they stunned?
Don’t they pay attention???
Obviously not.....it has to hit close to home for some people....actually most people.
I am not surpeised by Zer0’s reponse...
He does not mourn for those we lost.
This is such an inappropriate place for a mosque..It is outrageous and purposefuly hurtful.In my opinion.
My sympathies to the 911 families.
Bloomberg is braindead.
The people who approve have no heart.
This is a very good description of how Obama is an analog of Hitler. Hitler's early successes were due, almost without exception, to audacity, assertion, and historical myth. All of it fueled by uncompromising hatred. Both of them similarly unaccomplished, yet both weave a myth with themselves as the saviour of "their people".
I can’t type correctly while speaking of Zer0
Well, I suppose another six months.
Before January 2008, he was a nonentity, and people can be forgiven for making of him whatever they imagined him to be.
By March 2008, when "White folks' greed runs a world in need" and "bitter clingers" were on the record, there was really no excuse.
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