On 9th anniversary of 9/11, anger and grief swirl in the air amid mosque, Koran burning controversy.
That feeling quickly changed to rage when the second plane screamed from off camera and into the tower. I can still taste the realization that it was no accident but a cowardly attack on the U.S.A.
The story below brings back some of that anger, and rage for me......
Saturday, the nation marks the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks - divided over a proposed mosque near Ground Zero and incensed by a preacher bent on burning the Koran.
The calls for unity and somber reflection of commemorations past have been replaced by fierce, politically-fueled debates over religious freedom and free speech.
Quote from the article:
| Plans to build an Islamic center two blocks from where the Twin Towers once stood have ignited anger in the streets of lower Manhattan, pitting 9/11 survivors against each other - and unleashing an ugly wave of Islamophobia across the country. Fanning the flames of religious bigotry was Florida pastor Terry Jones, whose threat to torch Islam's sacred book today touched off angry riots in Muslim Afghanistan and endangered U.S. forces fighting there. Jones last night sent word via another fiery evangelist, K.A. Paul, that there would be no book burning. Nobody could say for certain if Jones, a high school classmate of right-wing radio jock Rush Limbaugh, would keep his word. The firebrand preacher arrived at LaGuardia Airport around 11 p.m. after a flight from Orlando and was immediately engulfed in a phalanx of Port Authority police. Dressed in a black Harley-Davidson |
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