May 20, 2010
To the Editor,
Please advise your readers that they may sign a petition against the construction of a 13 story Mosque and Islamic center 600 feet from Ground Zero.
Here’s the link to the website with the petition.
By 9:00 May 20, nearly 10,000 people had signed this petition in the twenty hours since it was launched. The email I received says, “Imagine the American response in 1950 if the Japanese government sought to erect a shrine to its World War II Emperor in Pearl Harbor, right next to the sunken wreckage of the USS Arizona.
“Less than nine years after the worst terrorist attack on American soil in our history, an imam who blames America for the 9/11 attack wants to construct a 13 story mosque and Islamic center 600 feet from “Ground Zero.”
“What’s more, he wants to unveil it to the world on September 11, 2011—the ten year anniversary of that horrific jihadist attack.
We need a tidal wave of public opinion to flood New York officials telling them that allowing a mosque to be built at ground zero is a slap in the face of the thousands of families who lost loved ones in that jihadist attack.
“This is why ACT! for America launched a nationwide petition yesterday that we will deliver to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, urging him and other New York officials to oppose the building of this mosque in this location.
“There are many other places such a mosque could be located.”