Posted on 09/27/2010 9:56:54 AM PDT by FreetheND88
(NEW ROCHELLE, NY) -- The ongoing debate over the controversial Islamic community center and mosque planned for the site of what was to have been a Burlington Coat Factory retail outlet in lower Manhattan, has left Peter Parente frustrated. Parente, 42, a U.S. Marine honorably discharged in 1993, was part of the small team of construction workers assigned to clear plane wreckage from the building located at 45–47 Park Place in the days after 9/11.
Sitting at the kitchen table in his modest three-bedroom home in the Halcyon Park section of New Rochelle, Parente is uncomfortable talking about the proposed community center and mosque. He said that his service in the United States Marines was dedicated to defending the Constitution and the American way of life, and while he recognizes the First Amendment right of the organizers to build a mosque on the site, he struggles with coming to peace with the plan. But his eyes light up and there is no hesitation when asked about proponents of the mosque who dismiss critics by claiming that the building is not really that close to Ground Zero.
"I was there", said Parente. "I smelled death. I tasted death. It was in the air that we breathed as we worked. Don't tell me that the building is not near Ground Zero. It was all around us."
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Trump offered to buy the building from the muzzies...for more than they paid...and was turned down.
That speaks volumes about their intent in building the mosque.
This will complete Mohammad Atta's mission!
That photo of the gear strut gave me the creeps. I flew the B-757 as a captain for the last 5 years of my airline career - including two of the four aircraft destroyed on 9/11 - on multiple occasions.
There is only one way to reasoning to a muslin...
And that is when you handle a MAGNUN 357 when doing it, and shows him you´re willing to use it.
These are no peace bounded people, read the Koran and you will find out.
The strugle is to submit AMERICA, first to SHARIA, and then fully islam.
The battle is set. No retreat Americans, no surrender, take no prisoners.
May the Lord bless you so that you finally understand it is like this.
It was that piece of wreckage that first attracted Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, 61, the man behind building the proposed 13-story Islamic community center and mosque, to the site. The presence of Park51 "where a piece of the wreckage fell sends the opposite statement to what happened on 9/11", Imam Feisal told the New York Times last December before the controversy began.
Down the memory hole! The new meme is that the Ground Zero Mosque isn’t at Ground Zero and isn’t ‘really’ a Mosque.
Didn’t you get the memo?
LOL!
so who sold them the land that made this possible? who is the profit seeker?
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