Posted on 08/20/2010 5:21:02 PM PDT by Kaslin
Ground Zero Mosque: A grass-roots movement among construction workers and unions asks Cordoba mosque supporters: Who do you expect to build it? The same people who built the World Trade Center perhaps?
In real estate, it's said the price of a property is based on three things — location, location, location. The price in blood and treasure America has paid for the gaping hole where the Twin Towers once stood is incalculable.
The wounds are still fresh and the anger is still real, and it's something that supporters of the Cordoba mosque, named after a great Islamic victory over the West, simply don't get.
Two blocks from the proposed mosque, construction workers at the WTC site are trying get across their point, and ours.
The towers of the World Trade Center instantly became symbols of America, its strength, its embrace of freedom and free markets. It was the pride of the workers who built it, destroyed in just hours by madmen who turned passenger jets into flaming cruise missiles.
William McCabe, 31, who lost an uncle on 9/11, used black marker to scrawl "WTC No Mosque" on the back of his neon construction vest in protest. "It's like spitting in the face of all the people that died," he told DNAinfo.com.
McCabe, who lives in Queens and has been working on Tower One for five months, said: "What they're going to be doing is praying and laughing because they got the mosque. My uncle's turning in his grave. It's a disgrace."
Mark Sabay, 48, of Brooklyn, who's been working on the site for two years, said a co-worker handed him a "No Mosque" sticker three days ago. He immediately affixed it to his hard hat.
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It is the freedom to worship whatever god one wishes to that is protected, not the freedom to build ones' religious structure in spite of the wishes of other American citizens.
Have them use pig blood to mix the concrete instead of water.
I thank them for taking a stand.
It’s legal to build the “islamic education center” there— but it is cruel to try to build it there. This “religion of peace” is showing itself to be a religion of cruelty and poor taste.
In a related note: a young islamic woman is suing Disneyland over wearing the head scarf. She wanted to wear one, they made her one to wear as part of her work uniform, but she feels that’s degrading. She insists she must be allowed to wear her own scarf. (They also offered her four other positions where she could wear her own scarf.) Yes, very peaceful...
I say bring in the steel workers who build all those high rises in Dubai. Looks like pretty good work to me. Any criticism will be looked at as intolerance.
Love your tag line. I live in California and have contributed to Allen West’s campaign. Wish we had some like him out here.
Ahhhhhhhh, democracy at work. I bet the arrogant idiot Bloomberg never figured on this happening. This tells me America is still a ways off from embracing totalitarian Marxism.
that is exactly right and they know it!!! They get to cry intolerance even while homosexuals are hung and women have their breasts cut off in the name of tolerance of Islam.
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