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Pamela Geller reports over at Atlas Shrugs:

Many attendees of our Ground Zero mosque protests and events are shocked to hear the 911 family members describe what is being done at the site of the worst attacks on American soil, Ground Zero (check out photos and videos). In the above video, Sally Regenhard and Rosaleen Tallon gave our astonished crowd the shocking details of the travesty that is the 9/11 victims memorial, which is planning to put the unidentified remains of 9/11 victims seven stories underground inside a museum that charges admission -- and which will include lavish profiles (above ground, of course) of the 9/11 hijackers. Daisy Khan of the Ground Zero Mosque is on the Board of the commission putting together the memorial, charged with making sure the Muslim perspective is represented in every aspect of the memorial.

Mike Burke, whose brother, Capt. William F. Burke, Jr., Eng. Co. 21, gave his life saving others on 911, sent me this petition protesting the politically correct “National September 11 Memorial” that the elites and Islamic apologists are currently building at the WTC, already signed by hundreds of family members. Mr. Burke writes:

We need as many signatories as possible. The first purpose of the memorial design, the product of apologists for terrorism, is to eradicate all trace and memory of the attacks from the national consciousness. If we do not at this place acknowledge the attacks we deny them. That’s the point of this design.

What's next? Quranic classes?

Please tweet, retweet, Facebook, email this petition. We need you to do this to begin the process of undoing this grotesque kick in the head. SIGN HERE NOW.

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I am a Canadian, so perhaps my opinion is only that of a sympathetic outsider, but, I wish the organizers all possible luck with this petition and campaign.

The world is facing a unique crisis today, when required thinking demands that the perpetrators of ideology-driven mass murder must be deferred to in every possible way, and the United States is in the forefront of the consequent struggle.

I suppose about the best that could be expected regarding the memorialization of the senseless deaths on 9/11 would be...no memorialization. That would certainly be preferable to what is being planned. And, in the present atmosphere, it would be the only permissable form of respect.

And I am guessing that the most unthinking, extremist Muslim alive knows something that most Westerners either don't know or refuse to acknowledge: that it is lack of belief in itself that lays the groundwork for the fall of a civilization - and it is not, at present, Islam that is poised for a fall.

Use the freedoms that American society still has. Petition, advertise, march, rally. Stop the 9/11 Victims' Memorial until such time as common decency toward those victims is allowed to set the agenda.

#1279.

There should be NO Muslim "perspective" other than the statement that the perpetrators of this heinous act were all Muslims.

Shocking, shocking. I just signed the petition.

More on this, from a Jihad Watch story from late 2009:

"Hijackers speak for themselves at 9/11 Museum"

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2009/09/hijackers-speak-for-themselves-at-911-museum.html

This is not the first or the only hijacking (pun *very much* intended) of 9/11 memorials—this, on the appalling "Crescent of Embrace" planned for that field in Pennsylvania where United flight 93 went down:

"Design consisting of crescent and minarets to serve as memorial for Flight 93 and its self-sacrificing heroes"

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2008/08/design-consisting-of-crescent-and-minarets-to-serve-as-memorial-for-flight-93-and-its-self-sacrifici.html

This design has been slightly modified, but it is still, essentially, *a mosque* that marks the place where the heroes of Flight 93 died.

Moreover, the design features small obelisks—one for each member of the crew and passengers, *including each for each of the Jihad hijackers*—which are memorialized in the same way as their victims.

We don't give a Nazi perspective to our War memorials, so why give an Islamic perspective to the 9/11 memorial?

It appears that the Islamists have infiltrated far deeper into our society than we first thought.

This 'memorial' will be no more than yet another victory parade for Islamic jihad.

"An article on Wednesday about the evolution of plans for a proposed Muslim community center in Lower Manhattan misstated the role of Daisy Khan in the 9/11 Memorial and Museum. Ms. Khan, one of the organizers of the center, has been part of an advisory panel for the museum; she is not on its board." - NYT 8/10/2010 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/11/nyregion/11mosque.html

Signed the petition ...

((( "Ms. Khan, one of the organizers of the center, has been part of an advisory panel for the museum; she is not on its board." )))

Close enough. Ms. Con shouldn't be involved in any way, shape or form.

Why does the petitiononline website have a banner on top advertizing a muslim dating service with pictures of muslim females in headgear? I can't stand stand seeing muslim females. They disgust me.

The petition itself only says to remove some trees from the design to make space to add the original World Trade Center "Sphere" sculpture into the proposed memorial. But the petition says nothing beyond that, nothing objecting to the obnoxious features of the design itself alluded to by Robert Spencer and Pam Geller in the article reprinted here.

An important website which is following this issue closely is mentioned at the end of the video: RespectHumanRemainsAtThe911Memorial.com

The 9/11 memorial at Shanksville Pennsylvania, originally called "The Crescent of Embrace" is really a "Crescent of Betrayal" detailed by Alec Rawls in his online book demonstrating a similar horror . . .designed as a giant mihrab (mosque).

American patriots must be relentless and address these atrocities head on. Pass it on to your elected officials and contacts in your e-mail. We will not be silenced.

Lan astaslem
لن استسلم‎

I just added my signature to the petition ..I hope my real name does not show up some where I could be found out as ex muslim …

the same here. any advice?
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Hi Mr. Spencer! i am not computer savvy. I have a question regarding Reza Aslan. how and where can I post my question.
thank you
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((( "The petition itself only says to remove some trees from the design to make space to add the original World Trade Center "Sphere" sculpture into the proposed memorial. But the petition says nothing beyond that, nothing objecting to the obnoxious features of the design itself alluded to by Robert Spencer and Pam Geller in the article reprinted here." )))

I noticed that too. It is rather odd, isn't it? The sphere issue pales in comparison to the other issues.

I didn't see the Muslim dating-service ad. That's ood too. What an inappropriate place for such an ad.

I just signed it. Does anyone know how many signatures are needed to make a difference, maybe 10,000 or more?

However, the ground zero mosque has to be stopped, no matter what needs to be done, but that mosque can NOT be allowed there, I know how that sounds, but this mosque must be stopped by all means!
Also the WTC memorial the way it is planned now has to be stopped and how in the world have muslims the say so in the matter of the WTC memorial, how is that even possible?
No way any muslim should have any power position in downtown NY, lets get those ppl fired, banned and removed once and for all, I had enough of this.

I strongly believe the west will finally wake up, in matter of fact large parts of the west are already awake and therefore the west will go back to its judeo-christian roots, at the same time the islamic countries will also go back to their roots and become more islamic as far as that is even possible.
On the end, there will be 2 hugh blocks, the Judeo-christian western Block and the islamic eastern block (caliphate) and I am afraid it will end up in WW3, I see no other way around, but I rather go down swinging (allthough I know the west will crash the islamic world) than being taking over by some stupid stealth jihad tackticks.
I also hope that ISNA and CAIR are very soon being banned, I mean after tons of evidence how hard could it be to take those thugs down?

All in All I am ready for war, I really had enough of Islam, its brutality, backwardness and its falsehood, therfore lets kick some ass!

Will do Spencerman. Some things Infidels should know about Islam.

Truth is NOT hate speech
Is tolerance of evil a good thing for Western civilization?
“Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.” - Thomas Mann

Infidel Public Service Announcement - Cut 'n Paste Bonanza!

Islamic Allah is the greatest deceiver of all (3:54) and leads people astray (14:27).
The Koran was made by Allah (10:37) and always been in heaven with Allah (85:21-:22).
The Koran is flawless (39:28) and only in Arabic (39:28, 43:3).

The current Koran has 114 Chapters, yet other original Korans had 111 Chapters (Abdullah bin Masud), while yet others had 116 Chapters (Ubayy bin Ka'b).
What to do?
The world's most powerful Muslim who reigned as caliph from 644-658 called Uthmam ordered other original Korans burned.
The current Koran, Chapter 33 has 77 verses, but originally had hundreds more.
One of the verses omitted was stoning to death for rape and adultery (Rajam), just like Mohammed ordered done to a mother who finished weaning her infant.

Mohammed is the ideal example of conduct for for Muslim and a prophet (33:21, 68:4), yet illiterate=unlettered (7:157).

Mohammed (51) married child bride Aisha (6) and raped her when she was 9 and he was 54 (Bukhari 7.62.88)
Mohammed says the devil stays in the upper-part of the nose all night (Sahih Bukhari Volume 6, Book 666, Verse 3295).

Muslims are the best of humanity (Koran 3:110).
Muslims are forbidden from doubting ANY part of the Koran (2:1).

Muslims are forbidden from asking questions about the Koran (Koran 5:101).

Muslims are REQUIRED to fight and kill us, even if they don't want to (2:216, 2:244, 4:89, 4:91).

Muslims MUST crucify, amputate, and slaughter non-Muslims (5:33).
Muslims CANNOT have non-Muslims as friends (5:51).

Muslims are allowed to lie to non-Muslims to spread Islam (3:28, 16:106).

Jews, Christians, and others are apes and pigs (2:65, 5:60, 7:163-166).

Should we tolerate child rape (65:4) and sex slaves (4:24) in Islam by Muslims?

Should we allow Muslims to kill us because it's the ONLY guaranteed way for Muslims to get to heaven (9:111)?

Should we let Muslims behead us (smite our necks - Koran 8:12, 47:4)?

Should we be killed for refusing to convert to Islam (9:29)?

Should Muslims be killed for leaving Islam (Bukhari 9.84.57)?

Should Infidel women be stoned to death (Rajam) for the crime of adultery and getting raped (Sahih Bukhari 8.82.816)?

Is it wrong to be fearful of the above?
Is it an irrational fear (phobia) to worry about the above?

Is it Islamaphobic to NOT want to be raped, enslaved, tortured, crucified, extorted, etc. as shown above?

/Any additions, corrections, etc. are welcome. Thank you Spencerman for your work.

And there's this,

http://www.dnainfo.com/20110228/downtown/911-family-members-start-petition-save-world-trade-center-sphere

which affects me directly since I've passed it every day before and after 9/11. No way do I want it warehoused while the clowns in charge decide what to do with it.

You may not mention the holocaust, it is hate speech against the Germans and all of Europe. I am not permitted to speak of my own grandfather being killed in Sobibor, it is hate speech against Germans and all of Europe. And one finaly note, there will be no discussion, insha Allah, of Islamic Jihad. After all, facts are no less than hate speech against Islam.

Signed. That disingenuous Daisy Khan or any other muslim is involved in this memorial is a travesty.
That the sphere itself is even up for discussion is a national disgrace.

Damn it, I want my country back!

WhupTdue wrote: "American patriots must be relentless"

To paraphrase Bill Clinton, that all depends on what the definition of "American patriots" is.

Most of you probably don't remember, but Ann Coulter -- the best living example of terminal PMS -- made the most insensitive comments regarding the 9/11 widows in 2006.

Coulter wrote in "Godless: The Church of Liberalism," that a group of New Jersey widows whose husbands perished in the World Trade Center act "as if the terrorist attacks happened only to them." She also wrote, "I've never seen people enjoying their husbands' deaths so much."

The 9/11 widows (and widowers and husbands and wives and mothers and fathers and brothers and sisters) were only trying to establish the truth regarding that horrible day. Coulter is a paid assassin for the Republican Party, so she was forced to attack the threat to her livelihood. Bush the Younger fought tooth-and-nail to prevent the 9/11 Commission from establishing the facts because it might make him look bad (like he needs any help).

The truth must be sought, regardless of where it takes us. All of the 9/11 victims must be remembered.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/06/07/entertainment/main1690954.shtml

Hi, everyone .

What does " Lan astaslem" mean ?

Believe it or not, when Charlie Chaplin made his movie "the great dictator" he was heavily critisized because he "hurt" the feelings of germans and german culture!
A couple of years later Hitler started WW2 and revealed its ugly face, that might be somthing for our politicians and the MSM to think of.

PS. the fun Chaplin made in no way hurt the feeling of any german, since fascism is not part of german culture and as far as the Holocaust is concerned, it is illegal to deny the holocaust in germany, even if anyone tries to relativate the holocaust in germany one could go to jail and I think thats the right way to act, ergo it is also right to condem islam (without making distictions) for what it did in NY, Madrid, London and anywhere elsein the world.

لن استسلم = lan astaslem

I initially read about this phrase at Michelle Malkin's site with her 9/11 Pledge: I Will Not Submit

google translate: "Will not be surrendered"

Islam is about submission. . .I will never submit nor will I ever surrender to Islam. Muslims can take their dawa and pound sand permanently.

Coulter's attack on those widows was directed toward them because they were spouting liberal nonsense. She didn't attack all widows of the 9/11 disaster. Just the ones who were making fools of themselves. And the "paid assassin" comment is way over the line (and inaccurate). Your attempt to belittle the previous President also is woeful. How eaxctly did President Bush "fight tooth-and-nail to prevent the 9/11 commission from establishing the facts?" The facts mind you and not what you think should be the facts.

Look, I'm not crazy about Coulter's methods at times and I certainly think Bush erred in several ways, not the least of which was not informing himself more accurately about Islam, but please, if you could, take your zealous anti-Republican agenda and store it away for a awhile. A long while. Oh yeah, one last thing. Though Bush had his faults, he's still way ahead of the weakling and fool who's occupying the Oval Office right now. Obama is bankrupting the nation and no bad guy on earth need fear him. He's pathetic. Hell, even liberal publications like Newsweek and Time are in the process of figuring this out. Perspective and balance---if you can.

Hi Angel Espinsoa,

If ones looks at the Educational Guidelines for the National 911 Memorial it is clear that more citizen input is called for.

Rather than sketchy, vague references to "world community", there needs to be a robust, and resounding reaffirmation of American values such as : freedom of speech, gender equality, rule of law, reason, democracy.

It seems to me that these same values are becoming associated with "Right-wing" values, and if this continues, they will eventually replaced by more "universal" notions of human rights, i.e. Islam.

If Daisy Khan can be on the education board of the National 911 Memorial, than I want Pamela Geller, or someone who understands what is at stake, on board as well.

Rather than the Board of Directors (which has its own problems, i.e. Jon Stewart, Robert De Nero, Billy Crystal), the Education Board should become a focus of our attention; if only to counter the influence of Daisy Khan.

Islamic proselytizing has no place at the memorial.

I signed the petition.

Daisy wants to make sure the Muslim perspective is represented. OK, here's an idea. Photoshop a view of the WTC taken from an airliner cockpit window.

Wellington wrote: "She didn't attack all widows of the 9/11 disaster. Just the ones who were making fools of themselves"

Following is a more complete quote from her book; note how she does not differentiate between liberal and other 9/11 widows:
"These self-obsessed women seem genuinely unaware that 9/11 was an attack on our nation and acted like the terrorist attack only happened to them. They believe the entire country was required to marinate in their exquisite personal agony ... These broads are millionaires, lionized on TV and in articles about them, reveling in their status as celebrities and stalked by grief-parrazies. I have never seen people enjoying their husbands' death so much."

And who are you -- or Coulter -- to determine who should speak in public?

Wellington wrote: "How eaxctly did President Bush "fight tooth-and-nail to prevent the 9/11 commission from establishing the facts?"

All it would have taken for you to research it would have been a simple Google search. But you really don't want to read anything that contrasts with your preconceived notions, do you?

"Bush Opposes 9/11 Query Panel"
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/05/15/attack/main509096.shtml

"the White House had opposed an independent commission"
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=91206&page=1

"the White House brushed off a request quietly made last week by the 9-11 Commission Chairman Tom Kean, the Republican former governor of New Jersey, to boost his budget by $11 million"
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,437267,00.html
$11 million is peanuts compared to any government program.

Wellington wrote: "take your zealous anti-Republican agenda and store it away for a awhile"

If you ever bothered to read my blog, you would discover that I write disparaging words regarding both the left and the right. My series of "Religious nuts need to be bottled-up" and "Sharia coming soon to a country near you" clearly illustrate my dislike of Islamists and jihad. To date, I have written 86 anti-Islam posts, and I don't earn any money from it, unlike Spencer. However, like most Republicans, Tea Party members, and Libertarians today, you believe that anyone who disagrees with you is a socialist, i.e. following W's dictum of "You are either with us or against us."

Wellington wrote: "Obama is bankrupting the nation and no bad guy on earth need fear him. He's pathetic."

Obama is pathetic, I completely agree. However, Bush II created the Wall Street bailouts. His tax cuts and unfunded wars created a monster deficit, with Obama following in his footsteps. And if you believe that tax cuts create jobs, read the article at the following URL from the Wall Street Journal, hardly a liberal newspaper:
http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2009/01/09/bush-on-jobs-the-worst-track-record-on-record/

Ann Coulter's criticism in this instance was confined to FOUR widows. You know this or should know it. She was disgusted by the fact that these four women were out there bashing Bush, supporting Kerry and, God forbid, if anyone should criticize them in any manner, then they were heartless. Liberals pull such crap time and time again and Coulter called them on the carpet for this. Take, for instance, Cindy Sheehan. Certainly it's deeply sad that she lost her son in the Iraq war, but liberals (and Sheehan herself) set her up as someone whom, if you dared criticize anything she said, then you were heartless. See the pattern? That's what Coulter was addressing---the deceptiveness, the hypocrisy, the sanctimonious air. And you've missed it completely.

And you didn't even faintly live up to my challenge to you to prove your contention that Bush was against establishing the facts about 9/11. His preference was for a Congressional investigation and not a special commission. Even if one would have preferred a special commission, accusing Bush of not wanting a proper investigation of the facts because he favored a Congressional commission is naive at best and dishonest at worst.

For the record, I don't believe that anyone who disagrees with me is a socialist, blah, blah, blah. What I do expect, though, is a respect for the facts. And you come up short again by referring to the Wall Street Journal article from January of 2009 which addressed how few jobs were created under the Bush Administration compared to previous Administrations. And yet you linked this, without any evidence, to Bush's tax cuts. His tax cuts, like those of Reagan and JFK's, INCREASED federal revenue. Are you aware of this? Jesus Christ, when are folks like you going to figure this out? For example, when Reagan came into office in 1981, federal revenue from income taxes was about 500 billion dollars. The top tax rate at the time was 70%. Reagan cut this to 28% and by 1989 federal revenue from income taxes was about 950 billion dollars. AND, the wealthiest 1% of Americans in 1989 were paying 26% of income taxes compared to the wealthiest 1% in 1981 paying 17% of income taxes. The reasons for fewer job creations under Bush were due to such things as the tech wreck in the NASDAQ beginning in early 2000, 9/11, and the mortgage meltdown which Bush warned about as early as 2003, as did John McCain, and both these men were accused of racism for doing so.

Would you please do more homework before making accusations? Clear enough?

Speaking for myself, I'm sick of seeing my fellow Americans play the role of permanent victims of terrorism, rather than thinking in terms of seeking effective righteous retaliation. That's what the 9/11 Memorials have come to signify to me personally. And yes, I also care about the victims. I myself worked for a company on the 82nd floor of Tower no. 2 back in the 1980s for a few years. It could have been me as a victim, if my Company hadn't layed me off.
But a few weeks after 9/11 it became evident the MSM was going to play up the victimhood syndrome to the hilt and avoid thinking in terms of retaliation. I noticed that early on, to my dismay. The victimhood role 's popularity among leftist liberals was probably uppermost in Ann Coulter's mind when she made those comments.

There is no doubt about it.

The lunatics have taken over the asylum.

Or they will unless we stop them.

Unbelievable.

Is this some sort of bad dream ?

Why did a banner ad for "singlemuslim.com" appear when I hit the 'approve signature' button?!

The events of 9/11 were horrific enough ...and now this, with muslims and their apologists exploiting the situation at Ground Zero for all its worth. The only thing islam & company know is how to be mean, hurtful and evil - and that's while they're pretending to be nice 'n peaceful!

And like others, I don't understand why the petition didn't include the grievances expressed in the video. How come? There's a total disconnect between the video and the petition.

Signed it. Also left a comment for your Mr. Bloomberg. But like others, I'm puzzled the petition didn't contain the points made in the video. Although I didn't see any muslim lonely hearts ad, thank God !

I signed Captain Burke's petition, and left this comment:

"Rebuild the WTC as it was, or taller. That would be a proper "memorial." Stop the Park51 Islamic victory monument and mosque. Impeach Mayor Bloomberg. Ask to see HIS birth certificate."

And if you want to see a dramatization of how to deal with the Islamic invasion of the U.S., read my suspense novel, "We Three Kings," on Amazon/Kindle.

I have signed the petition, from Holland.

Greetings Robert,
For your information, on the sign petition page, there is advertising banner on the top of the page for singlemuslim.com with URL http://us.singlemuslim.com !!

Is this just a coincidence ?

Mr. Spencer
Are you sure that the link is going to the right petition; a Save the Sphere petition comes up? Now I'm all for saving the sphere but I don't see how it connects to whitewashing the Muslim attack on 911.

It has been a while since I read only last 1/3 of Koran, but, isn't there something in the Koran about 7 levels of hell. I think the symbolism of 7 floors below street level may be an intentional symbol of victims in hell. I would love to know who brought in that aspect of the design. The Flight 93 Memorial was designed by someone who liked islamic design and had college connections with muslims. I think some investigation into the designer would be in order.

Next Con-job Khan will have a display that denouces Pedophiles and Pedophilia to counter that sexcapde truth about Muhammed.
CAIR and the GZ-Mosque will charge admission to a room with pictures of Pedophiles and paintings done by John Wayne Gacey as a wall houses the body parts from the vicitms of Wayne Williams killing spee in Atlanta and the unearthed parts of over 15 dismembered boys from under Gacey house.

A picture of Muhammed and a exalted and elivated Quran will be on display as well to show how tough they are on male Pedophiles and mass murderers of children.
Khan is just trying to show the peaceful side of islam
by letting the infidels see pictures of the Misunderstanders of Islam and the body parts of the slaughtered civilains by these misunderstanders.
So lets join in a have a Church show pictures of all the heroes from the Crusades that slaughtered Muslims as misunderstanders of Christianity, have pictures of all the bombings of civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan by foreign Air Forces from non-Muslim nations to show the damage by Misunderstanders of the peaceful jesus.
yes folks, Khan has just opened my eyes to how we should denouce slavery and wars, we degrade humans and put up graphic images of corpses and the murderers of slaves or even a flogging to show how much I denouce these oppressors.
A pre-Civil War pictoral of slaves in chains and being linched or burned on a cross can show how wrong it is.

Gotta love that wacky Islam that puts the MAD in MuhamMAD and the SLAM in Islam.

Self Evident wrote:

Why did a banner ad for "singlemuslim.com" appear when I hit the 'approve signature' button?!
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I know several posters above have mentioned this. I wish someone a bit more computer-savvy than myself was addressing this, but here goes.

I have noticed this phenomenon on a number of staunchly anti-Jihad blogs. My understanding is that many sites and blogs that opt—sometimes out of necessity—for low-cost hosting carry ads.

The site does not, in most cases, get to choose the ads. The ads are run automatically based on keywords—in other words, if a site is anti-Jihad, it may have the words "Muslim" or "Islam" appearing frequently.

So, if the host company carries ads such as "singlemuslim.com", the ads will appear there. This is damned annoying—not to mention incredibly ironic.

At this point, though, I just ignore such ads. All the presence of such ads tells you, to my knowledge, is that the site is running on a tight budget.

Midshipman Easy wrote:

I am a Canadian, so perhaps my opinion is only that of a sympathetic outsider...
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I don't look at it that way at all, Midshipman Easy, for two reasons.

Firstly, while 9/11 was clearly an attack on Americans—it was also, really, an attack on the whole of Dar-al-Harb—particularly the civilized West.

Attacks have been planned by Jihadists in Canada, targeting Toronto and Ottawa. This is *very* similar to 9/11, which targeted America's political center and largest city.

Secondly, besides Americans, there were citizens of fifty-three countries who died in the 9/11 attacks.

Canada lost twenty-four of her people that day.

I believe you have every right to speak out on this matter.

"Speaking for myself, I'm sick of seeing my fellow Americans play the role of permanent victims of terrorism, rather than thinking in terms of seeking effective righteous retaliation.

You're speaking my language. It's way past time to take the offensive and cancel the threat for good. It seems so many Westerners have resigned themselves and their children for generations to a shitty future of tolerating Muslim violence.

Such a huge crowd of people,protesting in a covered building will not result in anything tangible.Learn from the crowd rage of the recent Middle East uprising. Those,who have lost their sons and daughters,and relatives who lost their ner and dear ones- have the courage to come out in the streets-when Mayer Bloomberg is coming out of his office or a at public speech-tackle him-insult him in public -call him a traitor,and create a scene. Let the whole wold know we are victimised and he is the cause of it. Unless the public move in this direction,these politicians just shrug you off.Relatives of those Sept.11 victims should have the courage and guts to come out face to face and tackle these elected criminals.Mothers ,who lost their sons- have the courage to face these people right in front of a crowd and demean them. Be prepared the create a scene and get arrested.You are doing this for your lost son/daughter,and for the honour of Americans.More and more people will join you.The agitaion spreads. Unless we follow the recent Egyptian way of showing our anger, these people will just take us as " let the dogs bark,but the caravan moves on". Raise up Mothers.

Skeen

you wrote - "Rebuild the WTC as it was, or taller. That would be a proper "memorial.""

I agree.

They were beautiful buildings.


http://www.lookingattheleft.com/2010/09/remembering-and-understanding-911/#more-8504

'Remembering and Understanding 9/11'


The perfect memorial would be to rebuild the WTC, the twin towers. After all: they've still got the blueprints, surely. And they could *improve* on the design, to make it more difficult to bring them down in the same way, again; there were features of the original design that made them peculiarly vulnerable, surely that could be corrected these days.

And write into the building, in different ways, for example in the names of conference and meeting rooms, the names of those who were murdered there and aboard the planes that were crashed into them.

If the funds are hard to find in a time of economic hardship, hold a national lottery to raise the money (and open the lottery to citizens of the non-Muslim nations that had people killed there - Philippines, Japan, Korea, Australia, Canada...). That's how Australia funded a couple of huge building projects such as our Opera House. We held lotteries!

And when it is opened, a 9/11 family member gets to be the one to cut the tape, and all the families of those who were murdered get to be the first people to ride the lifts all the way to the top - where they can fly kites, or release balloons, or doves, or paper planes, or toss confetti and flower petals to the four winds, in memory of their loved ones. And let the guy who did the 'Two Towers - I walk' string his wire again, if he's still around, and still game, and do the walk again.

Dumbledore's Army wrote:

The perfect memorial would be to rebuild the WTC, the twin towers.
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I agree with you and Skeen, DDA. But what's planned for the site is actually not bad at all. Here's a picture of the planned Freedom Tower:

http://www.tropolism.com/07wtc2.l.jpg

The controversial memorial garden lies at the base.

The original Twin Towers rose to a height of 1360'. There are planned observation decks at this height. The Freedom Tower *will* be taller than the old WTC, and will rise to a height of 1776’.

I don't think that number is accidental—the United States declared her independence in 1776.

http://nyc-architecture.com/?p=600

The iconography is a bit muddled, and I would have preferred that they rebuild twin towers—but in general I think this is quite positive—*especially* when you consider how wrong this could have gone. Overall, a fitting tribute, as long as we can keep Jihadists and their appeasers and apologists from hijacking the memorial.
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Think of this–a foreigner spends six years plotting what he considers "the [artistic] crime of the century", evades WTC security, uses fake IDs and fake workers to gain access to the buildings, goes to great lengths to blend in so he will not be questioned or stopped, and perpetrates a highly illegal act.

Was this 9/11, or the previous bombing in 1993?

Not at all. This was Frenchman Phillip Petit's lovely walk on a wire between the Twin Towers. A lot of people don't realize that Petit's act *was hardly authorized*.

Petit *was* arrested. In fact, he surrendered to the police himself.

But here is a description of the "crime", from one of the arresting officers, Sgt. Charles Daniels:

"I observed the tightrope 'dancer'—because you couldn't call him a 'walker'—approximately halfway between the two towers. And upon seeing us he started to smile and laugh and he started going into a dancing routine on the high wire....And when he got to the building we asked him to get off the high wire but instead he turned around and ran back out into the middle....He was bouncing up and down. His feet were actually leaving the wire and then he would resettle back on the wire again....Unbelievable really....Everybody was spellbound in the watching of it."

The officer—while concerned—is also quite clearly *delighted*. All charges against him were later dropped. His "community service" consisted of putting on a show for children in Central Park.

When asked why he did the stunt, Petit would say, "When I see three oranges, I juggle; when I see two towers, I walk."

Of course, the existence of the iconic Twin Towers had a rather different effect on vicious Jihadists, who couldn't wait to bring them down, while murdering as many of their occupants as possible.

Thank you for posting that video of Phillip Petit's feat, DDA.

The documentary film "Man on Wire" by UK director James Marsh won the Academy Award for Best Documentary in 2008.

There is also a delightful children's book, "The Man Who Walked Between the Towers" by author and illustrator Mordecai Gerstein from 2007. This book won the Caldecott Award. You can find it here:

http://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Walked-Between-Towers/dp/031236878X

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