This morning, Debra Burlingame, Keep America Safe Board Member and Co-founder of 9/11 Families for a Safe & Strong America, released the following statement in response to President Obama's remarks about the Ground Zero mosque."Barack Obama has abandoned America at the place where America's heart was broken nine years ago, and where her true values were on display for all to see. Since that dark day, Americans have been asked to bear the burden of defending those values, again and again and again. Now this president declares that the victims of 9/11 and their families must bear another burden. We must stand silent at the last place in America where 9/11 is still remembered with reverence or risk being called religious bigots."Muslims have worshipped in New York without incident both before and after the attacks of 9/11. This controversy is not about religious freedom. 9/11 was more than a 'deeply traumatic event,' it was an act of war. Building a 15-story mosque at Ground Zero is a deliberately provocative act that will precipitate more bloodshed in the name of Allah. Those who continue to target and kill American civilians and U.S. troops will see it as a symbol of their historic progress at the site of their most bloody victory. Demolishing a building that was damaged by wreckage from one of the hijacked planes in order to build a mosque and Islamic Center will further energize those who regard it as a ratification of their violent and divinely ordered mission: the spread of shariah law and its subjugation of all free people, including secular Muslims who come to this country fleeing that medieval ideology, which destroys lives and crushes the human spirit."We are stunned by the president's willingness to disregard what Americans should be proud of: our enduring generosity to others on 9/11--a day when human decency triumphed over human depravity. On that day, when 3,000 of our fellow human beings were killed in a barbaric act of raw religious intolerance unlike any this country had ever seen, Americans did not turn outward with hatred or violence, we turned to each other, armed with nothing more than American flags and countless acts of kindness. In a breathtakingly inappropriate setting, the president has chosen to declare our memories of 9/11 obsolete and the sanctity of Ground Zero finished. No one who has lived this history and felt the sting of our country's loss that day can truly believe that putting our families through more wrenching heartache can be an act of peace."We will honor the memory of our loved ones. We will protect our children, whose lives will never be the same. We will not stand silent."Debra BurlingameBoard MemberKeep America Safe

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  • THANK YOU TWANA FOR YOUR REPLY..I HURT FOR THE FAMILIES AND ALL THE PEOPLE THAT WERE THERE THAT DAY..I SPENT DAYS GLUED TO THE TV AND CRYING ALL THE WHILE...OUR GREATEST TRAGEDY HAS BECOME A LAUGHING MATTER TO OUR GOVERNMENT..
  • YOU GOT IT.....http://www.keepamericasafe.com/
  • A thought came to me today. What could be done to this piece of property to make it unclean to the muslims , thus unfit for the mosque?
    • How about a Jewish Help Center right across the street or next door?
      There is already a planned Gay Bar. Rush had this on his show yesterday looking for names. (I think 'Rammadon' fits. or 'Ram-a-Don'.)
    • That area was rife with wild pigs back in the 17th century and is littered with the bones and blood of them, long since.The reason the wall, for which Wall Street was named, was built by the Dutch farmers of New Amsterdam was to keep the pigs out of their crops. All that needs done is to introduce the Muslims to American history, particularly the history of New Amsterdam, which we now call NYC!
  • I don't remember seeing how they purchased the property. Who sold it to them?
  • I am having the utmost difficulty with my observing things like taking a cross out of a military cemetery,removal of remembrance crosses for state troopers along a highway where they served, and other obvious American cultural references to faith being mixed up as somehow tainting a state religion.The confusion of freedom of religion with a freedom from religion agenda.Now to see a total lack of interest in the wholesale embracing by the Liberal establishment of Moslem's observances like Ramadan dinner observed but not a national day of prayer and building a Mosque. Pelosi's call to investigate the people opposed to the mosque.This seems very hypocritical to me..If the ACLU is so adamant on controlling the line they perceive between church and state then they should have something real to say about the way the Liberals in government are fawning all over this mosque situation especially since this mosque is more a war memorial than an actual worship center.While I am at it .Why can't the Greek Orthodox congregation rebuild their church that was destroyed when the towers fell?Why is the State Department paying thin immans travel expenses?
    I could care less whether Obama is Moslem or not I am more concerned with his being a communist and his personality peculiarities.History,you know that thing we forget and tend to repeat, tells us that the Sunni's and the Shiites build mosques on sites revered by those they vanquish in their wars of conquest.Cordoba was their mosque after they conquered Spain.Sufi's are the moslems of Peace.Allowing Shirea Law a place in our society is definitely encroaching a religion on the State.If the argument for preventing practices of Shirea abhorrent to Americans in general then we need to back off the practices that LDS people had in the 19th century.Perhaps not a good argument but certainly amusing to to me when I see the anti-religious bent of the Left yet they can't kiss enough moslem ass fast enough.If those that want to build this mosque near the 9/11 site could just realize how Bad Taste it is. Idealy a nice garden with a polished stone wall around it with the names of those who died on 9/11 among the victims. an area free of religion but full of faith and spirituality would be more fitting..
    Love and Peace,
    Holland Simms
    • WELL SAID MR. SIMMS.....I ONE THING I DON'T BELIEVE THAT BO REALLY IS FAITHFUL TO ANYTHING..HE IS WHAT I MOST EXPEDIENT AT THE TIME...NARCISSISM PREVAILS WITH HIM...THANK YOU FOR YOUR REPLY....PAT
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