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9/11 Memorial Pledged as Part of Mosque Plan
wsj ^ | 8/2/10 | TAMER EL-GHOBASHY

Posted on 08/02/2010 9:05:24 PM PDT by Nachum

On the eve of expected city approval of a mosque and Islamic center two blocks from Ground Zero, backers of the project are pledging to include a memorial to the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks as part of an effort to allay opponents' complaints that the mosque's location is insensitive.

"We've heard and felt their pain, and we're extending ourselves," said Daisy Khan, a partner in the building and the wife of the cleric leading the effort. "We want to repair the breach and be at the front and center to start the healing."

On the eve of expected city approval of a mosque and Islamic center two blocks from Ground Zero, backers of the project are pledging to include a memorial to the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks as part of an effort to allay opponents' complaints that the mosque's location is insensitive.

"We've heard and felt their pain, and we're extending ourselves," said Daisy Khan, a partner in the building and the wife of the cleric leading the effort. "We want to repair the breach and be at the front and center to start the healing."

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KEYWORDS: 911; memorial; mosque; pledged
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I wonder if New York firemen and police would respond to a fire at the new mosque....
1 posted on 08/02/2010 9:05:31 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

Yeah, they will probably build a memorial to the terrorists!


2 posted on 08/02/2010 9:06:48 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel (Obama makes me miss Jimmah Cahtah!)
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To: Nachum
BS
3 posted on 08/02/2010 9:08:25 PM PDT by goodnesswins (DEMOCRATS LOSE.....America WINS!)
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To: MIchaelTArchangel

It will be a trophy case, not a memorial.


4 posted on 08/02/2010 9:09:16 PM PDT by donna (Why did John McCain let it get so bad?)
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To: Nachum

” “We’ve heard and felt their pain, and we’re extending ourselves,” “

You don’t understand. You are the pain. Your presence in that place is a purposeful dagger.

This country will not tolerate it.


5 posted on 08/02/2010 9:09:16 PM PDT by Humble Servant ( See y'all in the gulag.)
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To: Nachum

Of course they’ll include a 9/11 memorial. Hundreds of muslems were killed when the towers fell, including the ones on the two aircraft...


6 posted on 08/02/2010 9:11:22 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Nachum
When will construction begin for the new Manhattan Project interpretive center begin in Hiroshima?
7 posted on 08/02/2010 9:12:00 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear (Does not play well with others)
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To: Nachum
BS. You want to impress me with your "sensitivity?" Back off from your plans. If it is so ever-lovin' important that you build your Mosque, build it some place else, say at least a mile or two from ground zero. If there really isn't a political, power statement to be made here then don't make one. Move. If you're unwilling to move away from ground zero, don't even try to pretend this is about religion.

If you really want to impress me with sensitivities for the victims... When you build it, put pictures of the 21 terrorists who perpetrated this crime on all the TP rolls in the bathrooms.

8 posted on 08/02/2010 9:14:35 PM PDT by ThunderSleeps (obama out now! I'll keep my money, my guns, and my freedom - you can keep the change.)
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To: Humble Servant

They do understand. They know exactly what they are doing and they are laughing at us committing suicide on our own soil which will soon be theirs.

We better stop them here or we will be just like England.


9 posted on 08/02/2010 9:14:38 PM PDT by savagesusie
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To: Nachum
Maybe OJ has a pic of Nicole taped to his cell wall.

10 posted on 08/02/2010 9:15:49 PM PDT by I see my hands (_8(|)
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To: savagesusie

If this becomes a monument to anything, it will be for the stupidity of the citizens of the United States.


11 posted on 08/02/2010 9:16:43 PM PDT by Loud Mime (Argue from the Constitution: Initialpoints.net)
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To: Nachum

Saudi Arabia funds EVERY mosque built in the west. Saudi royal money financed 9/11. If I posted this in the UK - I would be sued. I still may get sued for posting it. The Saudis control the UK and the USA.


12 posted on 08/02/2010 9:20:01 PM PDT by Frantzie (Television controls the American people/sheep)
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To: Yo-Yo

Just remember everyone - small American children going on vacation with their parents were incinerated that day. Thank you evil idiots who voted for the Saudi agent. The people in NY who voted for hussein did this EVIL.


13 posted on 08/02/2010 9:23:12 PM PDT by Frantzie (Television controls the American people/sheep)
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To: Humble Servant

Yes we will...


14 posted on 08/02/2010 9:31:28 PM PDT by American Dream 246 (Open your eyes. Freedom is not a one day fight. Enemies of Freedom are legion.)
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To: Nachum

If they’re so sensitive to people’s feelings and worried about anti-Islamic sentiments, they wouldn’t be building the mosque.


15 posted on 08/02/2010 9:32:50 PM PDT by drierice
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To: Loud Mime

You are absolutely right...we would be so stupid we would deserve to lose the country.


16 posted on 08/02/2010 9:33:28 PM PDT by savagesusie
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To: American Dream 246

” Yes we will... “

No, we MUST NOT. This nation was not built by defeatists, and MUST not be left in their care. Stop sitting there accepting defeat, and get active!


17 posted on 08/02/2010 9:39:31 PM PDT by Humble Servant ( See y'all in the gulag.)
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To: Nachum

NO SALE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


18 posted on 08/02/2010 9:40:47 PM PDT by tina07 (In loving memory of my father,WWII Vet. CBI 10/16/42-12/17/45, d. 11/1/85 -Happy B'day Daddy 2/20/23)
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To: donna

It will be a trophy case, not a memorial.

***************

Precisely.


19 posted on 08/02/2010 9:57:15 PM PDT by Psalm 144 (We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die. - Samuel Adams)
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To: All; Humble Servant

“When you build it...”

“...and they are laughing at us committing suicide on our own soil which will soon be theirs.”

These are from a couple of postings. Notice the “done deal” tone and verb tenses.

Guys, do NOT accept this - that’s been a large part of our problem thus far, as a people/nation, and what’s gotten us to this dire point.

Humble Servant, you’re exactly right. We’re at a crossroads and the time is rapidly approaching to take ACTION.


20 posted on 08/02/2010 10:04:52 PM PDT by llandres (I'd rather be alive and bankrupt than dead and solvent)
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