I Will Not Forget...

The whole idea is very "in your face". It's the equivalent of the muslim population shoving the collective bottoms of their shoes into the faces of the families of those that perished during 9/11. Deliberately exposing the sole of one's shoe to someone else is quite an insult in the Arab world; and, though he may deny it, why else would the islamic cleric Feisal Abdul Rauf want to have his thirteen-story, 1 million dollar mosque built in the very shadow of the fallen World Trade Towers? I think the answer is fairly obvious.

Today, I couldn't seem to wrap my brain around the fact that New York City Community Board 1 had voted 29 to 1 in favor of allowing the mosque to be built. They did this even though many of the 9/11 victims' family members were present at the board meeting, and very vocal in their opposition to the proposal. From the accounts that I have read about the meeting, there was quite a bit of screaming, arguing, and shouting going on, and I can certainly understand why!

If the muslims are not trying to make a point, and if they are not trying to mock the dead, and, in fact the entire United States, why won't they agree to build the mosque elsewhere? Why are they so adamant that it be built at Ground Zero? If they are as cognizant of the families' suffering and sorrow as they say they are, why won't they show some real respect, and back down?

Even if the abominable mosque is built, and it stands tall and proud as a monument to muslim hatred, violence, and mockery of the U.S., there are still those of us that will not forget. We will remember where we were that Tuesday morning when our country was instantly plunged into mourning. We will remember the tears, the terror and the dead. And we will pray for their surviving families, that God will continue to comfort,uphold, and strengthen them. And we will honor the dead in our hearts. No islamic eyesore, were it a thousand stories tall, will ever be able to change that.