Happened before. Find the word "SAVAGE" from this monument on the square in Santa Fe.
Posted on 09/08/2016 6:40:45 PM PDT by blueyon
President Obama and Hillary Clinton aren’t the only ones having trouble identifying the religion of certain Middle Eastern descended terrorists.
At least one Muslim group wants the words “Islamic terrorists” entirely scrubbed from a new Owego, NY 9-11 memorial created to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the attack.
The Islamic Organization of Southern Tier, a New York state based Muslim activist group, told KTRK-TV that the words unfairly paint all Muslims with the same brush. Believing the “inflammatory” language could lead to anti-Muslim violence, the group would like the word “Islamic” scrubbed entirely, or even replaced with the words “Al Qaeda” to describe the attackers.
Because if the word Islamic is left off that monument, maybe people won’t know the attackers were Muslim. I mean, they could just as easily have been Jewish, or Christian, or Buddhist. After all, everyone knows Buddhists are just as statistically likely as Muslims to commit devastating acts of terrorism on Israeli and Western targets, right?
So far, to his credit, Owego town supervisor Donald Castellucci is standing his ground. He says the monument is accurate and will not be altered.
“I don’t live in a politically correct world,” Castellucci said. “I live in a historical fact world and terrorism — whether it’s American homegrown, Christianity, Islamic — you call it what it is.”
According to Castelluci, the memorial isn’t about religion, but is in memory of “one event on one day that killed more than 3,000 people.”
The memorial reads:
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Happened before. Find the word "SAVAGE" from this monument on the square in Santa Fe.
That’s a high quality defacement...
what does the plaque actually say ???
you left it off of the excerpt ...
The attackers were Muslims murdering in the name of Allah. There’s no squirming out of that fact. It was Islamic terrorism.
Bacon Ahkbar ****** *******!!!
Does any person with the ability to think, really give a rat’s ass what these goat humpers find offensive?
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