"The ninth anniversary of 9/11 was commemorated in Lower Manhattan today with a solemn ceremony of reflection and remembrance, but the focus and tone shifted as demonstrations for and against a planned Islamic cultural center and mosque got underway nearby.
The Rev. Terry Jonessaid he had "totally canceled" his plans to burn copies of the Quran in Gainesville, Fla., but the rancorous anti-Islam mood he espoused was evident near ground zero. Shortly after the memorial service for victims killed there, a man from North Carolina burned pages of the Quran, and another protester from Pennsylvania tore out pages of the Islamic holy book and coaxed the anti-mosque protesters to buy it as "toilet paper."
"Muslims will never be American citizens, they don't fit, they don't assimilate," said one elderly protester from Illinois, who declined to give her name. "Let's call a spade a spade: I want them out, not in."
"They are so many religious crackpots here calling themselves red-blooded Americans," said Bill Steyert, 67, a Vietnam War veteran representing "Veterans for Peace" at the pro-mosque rally. "If they truly believed in the Christ, then they would love their neighbors." "
--Tone shift
I hate that all this b.s. is going on...its SO disrespectful and ignorant. These people are taking the focus off of what is really important about today, and thats remembering and paying your respects to those who lost their lives and who served to protect our country after 9/11...not about demonstrating more acts of hate and intolerance. And I'm with Seyert on this one. Just had to put that out there.
Twin Towers Tribute of Lights, simply amazing. I love this.
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