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
For decades the libs' favorite whipping boy was Christianity, particularly Catholicism. As an atheist myself I witnessed endless negativity directed toward Chrstianity under the guise of "ALL religions are bad."
Since 9/11, it's interesting--but certainly not surprising--to see how this supposed antagonism towards all religion has altered, when there is a perfect example of a religion that crushes the individual and has attacked the nation that is the most open to this diversity they're always going on about. Instead, secularists and Christian-bashers have altered their tune and are supporting any religion that's NOT the dominant one in this country, and in particular the one religion that would have the secularists up against the wall and machine-gunned if they were the dominant religion in this country.
Disgusted, but hardly stunned. This was entirely predictable & once again puts him at odds with 70% of the people.
Btw, I find Ms. Burlingame to be an excellent representative of 9/11 victims—she is quite intelligent & articulate. I’ve seen her on FNC & she states her case well. Very impressive lady, glad to see her continuing to speak out publicly.
Obamacare...that the majority didn't want.
Amnesty...that the majority doesn't want.
Giving a "shout-out" to his peeps before even mentioning the Fort Hood massacre.
Anyone that's shocked by THIS just hasn't been paying attention!
He won the Nobel Peace Prize for doing nothing and people put him in the White house for doing nothing - now he is doing something....as he promised, he is fundamentally changing America and Michelle is pushing him on in that endeavor. That mosque is an affront to All Americans not just New York City. Stop it anyway you can.
I couldn’t sleep last night because I kept waking up in a state of great aprehension. I feel as if Obama is about to throw off all pretence now and emerge as what he is, a Muslim fascist dictator.
The thing that concerns me is that I don’t think he’d be doing this so blatantly if he didn’t feel he already had the opposition sewed up and has nothing to fear.
I don’t know that he’ll declare martial law, however; in fact, he might consider that too risky, since it would have to be enforced by state National Guards, and I’m not sure he could count on every state to do it.
I was trying to figure out how he was going to carry off the final take-over, which he obviously sees as within his grasp and which will probably occur fairly soon. It will be something that will just happen overnight and will be a fait accompli by the time people find out about it.
I, personally, would be completely stunned if he knew all the words to Star Spangled Banner.
That would floor me.
With a middle name of ‘Hussein’,what did they expect?A Mormon?
Where did you read that Burlingame voted for BHO? I haven’t seen that anywhere.
If so, I take back all the good stuff I just said about her.
Excellent graphic!
That’s certainly possible. I think he’s nutz, personally; but then, so was Hitler, and look at all the power he managed to get and the destruction he caused.
“The thing that concerns me is that I dont think hed be doing this so blatantly if he didnt feel he already had the opposition sewed up and has nothing to fear.”
I have exactly the same fears. Trying to figure out his end game is extremely difficult and extremely important.
“It will be something that will just happen overnight and will be a fait accompli by the time people find out about it.”
We’re on the same page here. I wish I had answers. So far I got nothing.
Except to pray, keep thinking and keep fighting.
Why would anyone be “stunned” by what Obama said? It’s exactly what I would expect him to say. He hates his country, and will do whatever he can to destroy it.
I’m thinking maybe they weren’t stunned, but rather, that the word was used to get a point across.
I don’t consider myself smart, but it seems to me that anyone with an ounce of brain would have recognized this was coming. Of course, I think there are many who are so enamored with this guy, they’re blinded to his treachery; so this act probably wouldn’t bother them.
Sadly, it may take these true believers the loss of some family member or friend due to terror to wake them up. With these folks, the only thing that penetrates their thick skulls is some extreme act, something that hits them personally.
While insisting that the place where the twin towers once stood was indeed “hallowed ground,” Obama said that the proper way to honor it was to apply American values.
Must see!
Of Mosques and Men: Reflections on the Ground Zero Mosque
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxFzFIDbKpg
That's it.
Ominous, but possible with this guy. I hope we’re both wrong.
Exactly. Whenever someone mentions in a conversation that Obama is "stupid," "clueless," an "idiot" or "doesn't know what he's doing," I now correct them as politely as the situation warrants. However extensive his intellectual deficiencies may be, he is totally dedicated to a hatred of traditional America and he is slick enough to sell what the Soroses of the world tell him to sell.
(Or sign what they put in front of him.)
It is a mistake to consider him unbeatable - for he is not - but it is just as much a mistake to let him off the hook by chalking his actions up to incompetence. His malevolence should not be softened or downplayed by portraying him as some sort of bumbler who is in over his head; he is a destroyer who is following someone's plan.
His support for this particular mosque was a given. If an action or policy will damage the United States, Barack Hussein Obama will help to implement it, every time. Evil.
Mr. niteowl77
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