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Posted on 03/22/2026 4:31:13 AM PDT by DFG
A banner draped over a 9/11 memorial, which was advertising a new Islamic portion of a Contra Costa County cemetery, was removed after receiving backlash.
The owner of the Memorial Gardens Cemetery said he recently sold a portion of the property to an Islamic family who plans to open memorial garden. He said he gave them permission to put up signage but did not authorize them to drape it over the 9/11 installation.
He ordered it to be removed as soon as he learned about it. Workers took it down just before noon, but many said it should have never been placer at the 9/11 memorial site in the first place.
Danny Kimmel, a Concord resident, said the banner advertising an Islamic memorial garden was draped over the 9/11 memorial located in front of the cemetery where his mother is buried.
“I felt a punch to the gut type of thing,” he said. “To see that sign on that memorial is kind of nutty is my thoughts.”
The Kimmels are a blue star family. Danny’s older brother was killed in Vietnam, and he said his mother would be rolling in her grave if she saw the banner.
“She wouldn’t just roll over she’d get up and walk,” he said.
His sister-in-law Violet Kimmel agrees. She said they are incredibly patriotic and calls the banner’s placement insensitive.
“There’s room for everybody, but just have a little respect where you’re gonna put your things,” Violet said.
NBC Bay Area spoke to another man whose grandfather is buried at memorial gardens. He says it was especially hurtful as we prepare to mark the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
He said taking the banner down was the right thing to do.
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“To see that sign on that memorial is kind of nutty is my thoughts”
…are you f’n kidding me? “Kinda nutty”?! He doesn’t think it was placed there purposely because some people did something?!
Just another facet of jihad and world domination.
Westerners who have read the print versions of the Holy Quran sold in the USA in the last few decades believe Islam is a "religion of peace" because the translations have been radically changed to make it appear to be.
Anyone who reads this will understand what is going on and what will be going on.
Just muzzards exercising dominance again.
Muslim cemeteries are usually hidden due to “illegal” graves.
Muslims have a world class inferiority complex and it’s obvious as hell to anyone who’s being honest. It masquerades as arrogance, but it’s the arrogance of a religion that is well aware of its failings.
CC
The banner can be easily removed. Not so for the crescent memorial in Shanksville. Sometimes we’re so well-meaning, gullible and stupid.
When War with Islam comes, they will thoroughly deserve what happens to the religion of lies, misogyny, murder, mahem, and ‘advancement’ back to the luxury of seventh century life.
And this is why Japan is banning all Muslim cemeteries in the country
I thought the same thing. I know people have different word usages, but “kind of nutty” is pretty bad. Their family, according to the article, have lost several to war actions, so I guess Kimmel gets a pass on it.
When the muslims tell us who they are, we should believe them.
The price must have been right. No such thing as a "portion" for the world domination crowd. The camel's nose under the grave..
“There’s room for everybody, but just have a little respect where you’re gonna put your things,” Violet said....
Sure, just a little misplaced, the Islamic banner over the 911 memorial that says "every soul will taste death".
Burn that effing banner...aftert coating it with bacon.
This is the kind of garbage that will soon be confronting Americans on a massive scale thanks to Marxist/Democrats who are now in the process of destroying countless institutions in both the public and the private sectors of our once great country.
I wish you were right.
You would be if they thought like us.
They don't think like us.
How “they” think:
Grok:
The apocalyptic vision of Iran’s ruling mullahs (clerics and Supreme Leader) is rooted in Twelver Shia eschatology—the dominant branch of Shia Islam in Iran—and centers on actively preparing for and hastening the return of the “Hidden Imam,” or Mahdi (the 12th Imam, Muhammad al-Mahdi). He has been in divine occultation (ghaybah) since the 9th century and is expected to reappear at the end of times amid catastrophic global chaos, widespread violence, wars, injustice, and moral corruption to defeat infidels and oppressors (“stained with infidels’ blood”), eradicate evil, and establish a universal Shia Islamic kingdom of justice.  
This is not passive waiting (as in traditional “quietist” Shia theology) but an activist doctrine, radicalized by the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini framed Iran as the “Vanguard of the Mahdi,” with the revolution and Islamic Republic as a divine interim government (via his innovation of Velayat-e Faqih, or Guardianship of the Jurist) until the Mahdi’s arrival. The regime’s clerics, IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps), and hardliners see their role as hastening these end-times conditions through jihad, export of revolution, and confrontation—making conflict not a side effect of policy but its theological purpose.  
Core Drivers of “War Making”
• Chaos and fighting as prerequisites: Shia hadiths and regime interpretations hold that the Mahdi emerges only after global upheaval. Senior clerics explicitly tie this to action: Ayatollah Mohammad Mehdi Mirbagheri stated, “In Order for the Hidden Imam to Reappear We Must Engage in Widespread Fighting with the West.” Khamenei and IRGC leaders echo that Iran’s task is to prepare the ground via battles against the “Great Satan” (US) and “Little Satan” (Israel, called a “cancerous tumor” that “must be uprooted”). Destruction of Israel is often framed as a sine qua non (essential precondition) or catalyst, with hadiths cited claiming it precedes the Mahdi.  
• Iran and IRGC as the Mahdi’s vanguard army: Khomeini and successors (including Khamenei) positioned the regime, armed forces, and especially the IRGC/Quds Force as tools to fulfill prophecy. The IRGC indoctrinates with Mahdism (over 50% of training in some periods), arms proxies (Hezbollah, Hamas, Houthis, Shia militias in Iraq/Syria/Yemen) as “Mahdi’s army,” and views operations—like intervening in Syria (against “Sufyani” tyrants per prophecies) or missile strikes—as removing obstacles to his return. Qassem Soleimani and others linked actions to direct contact or preparation for the Imam. 
• Hastening via specific acts: Under Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (promoted by hardliners), this intensified—state funds rebuilt the Jamkaran Mosque (a Mahdi pilgrimage site), and he declared his government prepares for the Imam while claiming the US seeks to block it. Nuclear pursuit, ballistic missiles, and regional destabilization are seen as creating “apocalyptic opportunity” or global conflict. Khamenei integrates it into worldview stages: revolution → Islamic society → Mahdi’s era. 
This theology explains the regime’s pattern: relentless proxy wars, “Death to America/Israel” doctrine, rejection of lasting compromise (e.g., viewing diplomacy as delay of divine plan), and prioritization of ideology over prosperity or survival. As analysts note, “Preparing the ground for the reappearance of the Hidden Imam is the Islamic Republic’s raison d’etre.” Peace or normalization would undermine the perpetual revolutionary struggle needed for the apocalypse; confrontation fulfills it.
“and is expected to reappear at the end of times amid catastrophic global chaos, widespread violence, wars, injustice, and moral corruption to defeat infidels and oppressors (“stained with infidels’ blood”), eradicate evil, and establish a universal Shia Islamic kingdom of justice.   “
Sounds a lot like the Christian eschatology -rapture, tribulation and the second coming of Christ
The Hidden Imam is in a Boston gay bar?
I WOULD NOT SELL A SQUARE INCH OF LAND TO A MUSLIM
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