9/11 Families Outraged by Plans to Build Mosque Next to Ground Zero, Rip Muslim Group for “Trying to Rewrite History”

From Weasel Zippers:

It’s absurd when an Islamic group thinks it’s a good idea to build a giant mosque next to Ground Zero, but it’s a hundred times worse when they claim it’s “meant to heal the wounds of 9/11.” Why don’t they just spit on the victims graves while they’re at it?…

FOX NEWS- Outraged family members and community groups are accusing a Muslim group of trying to rewrite history with its plans to build a 13-story mosque and cultural center just two blocks from Ground Zero, where Islamic extremists flew two planes into the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001

“This is a place which is 600 feet from where almost 3,000 people were torn to pieces by Islamic extremists,”said Debra Burlingame, whose brother died in the attack on the Pentagon that day.

“I think that it is incredibly insensitive and audacious really for them to build a mosque, not only on that site, but to do it specifically so that they could be in proximity to where that atrocity happened,”said Burlingame, who is co-founder of 9/11 Families for a Safe and Strong America.

….Rauf insists the effort is meant to help heal the wounds of 9/11, “We’ve approached the community because we want this to be an example of how we are cooperating with the members of the community, not only to provide services but also to build a new discourse on how Muslims and non-Muslims can cooperate together to push back against the voices of extremism.”

But Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, president of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, says there are more productive ways to fight Islamic extremism.

“Even when they have the resources, they are using it for a place of worship, a cultural center for organizations,” he said. They are not using it for a counterterrorism research center.