As many as 10,000 protesters gathered in Manhattan on Sunday, June 6, 2010 to demonstrate against plans to build a 13 story mosque near the site of Ground Zero where the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were destroyed by Islamist hijackers on September 11, 2001."After hours of public comment, a New York City community board voted to support a plan to build a mosque and cultural center near ground zero." Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer said in a statement "that by supporting the multi-faith community and cultural center, the board sent a clear message that our city is one that promotes diversity and tolerance."
So we should appease our enemy and what they did to us? Let a mosque be built near the site where our nation was attacked? The people who protested on June 6, 2010 disagree with that statement.
I am amazed at how many Americans really don't care about what is happening to their country. Are there really that many people who are so liberal leaning that they are more concerned about being politically correct rather than take a stand and telling these people no, there will not be a mosque built anywhere near the ground zero site?
The family members who lost a husband, wife or friends during the attack on the Twin Towers on 9/11, how can they deal with this fiasco? At least a portion of the site at ground zero should be used for a monument to what happened there. So that the people in our country and future generations, do not forget the many lives that were lost. Not only should we never forget, we should never forgive our enemy for what happened to us.
Are most of us just going through life with no idea about what is happening in and to our country? Do you know what your government is doing, has already done and is planning to do? Those who have no idea - sometimes I envy them. They don't stress themselves about these things.
To quote an unknown U.S. Marine in Iraq who stated "America's not at war, the Marines are at war, America's at the mall."
