The audacity of this man is beyond the pale. His total belief in multiculturalism and his fear of Islam combine to insult the tens of thousands of first responders and clergy, making the memorial to 9-11 so much the sham. Bloomberg believes that if he has only Christians or Jews to give an invocation, Muslims and their lapdogs will get angry, possibly leading to violence and we just can't have any of that. The disconnect between what is right and what is convenient is staggering, Bloomberg takes his fear of Muslims and projects it upon the people, giving them nothing useful to think about but increasing their own misgivings about Islam and Muslims ten-fold.
I understand the refusal to allow a local imam or cleric to say an Islamic prayer, after all we were attacked by Islam on 9-11. But to take it to the level that any prayer will upset someone is outrageous and dangerous. The tragedy of 9-11 is an American experience, uniquely ours and a integral part of our culture now and for years to come. The idea that we should bend to another religious sensibility for the sake of "getting along" makes no sense, and to do so dilutes the deep connections we all have to a milestone of history.
Islam has but one connection to 9-11, that of the perpetrator. In no way should their feelings, sensibilities or beliefs intrude into our remembrance and in no way should they be allowed to be a part of our collective grieving. Also, Islam in no way should influence how we remember 9-11 or what we do and say on that day, the only part Islam needs to play is that of the enemy who, on a beautiful September day removed our blinders and let us see what is really behind the "religion of peace".
Mayor Bloomberg is a travesty to the ideals and values of America, may his reign end quickly.
Here are two articles, read them sitting down.
From RightSideNews August 29
Bloomberg Bans All Clergy from 9/11 Ceremony
New York mayor Michael Bloomberg has rightly come under withering criticism for banning all clergy and all prayer at this year’s 9/11 commemoration ceremony. It is inexcusable for the mayor to ban prayer at a solemn event of this magnitude, a tragedy that deeply affected all Americans. The faith of millions of Americans in God sustained them on that day and the days that followed, and churches were packed the Sunday following 9/11 with people looking to their pastors for spiritual comfort and guidance.
So why would Mayor Bloomberg stick his thumb in the eye of every believing American? His ban contravenes all of American history, in which political leaders have persistently turned to prayer in moments of crisis, beginning with the first session of the Continental Congress that gave us the Declaration of Independence. His ban on prayer is both misguided and politically stupid. Why would he do it?
Here’s my suggestion. Multiculturalism has so infected Mayor Bloomberg’s view of America that if he allowed anybody to pray he would feel compelled to include a Muslim imam on the platform, praying a Muslim prayer and invoking the Muslim god at whose direction the 9/11 hijackers killed 3000 Americans in cold blood.
He knows the American people would never stand for that. But if he held the ceremony and allowed only Christian pastors and Jewish rabbis to pray, he’d get hammered by secular fundamentalists, muliticulturalists and Muslim advocates for playing favorites.
Better, he thought, to outrage the vast majority of Christians who believe in Jesus than to offend his tiny, fringe-dwelling winger-left fan club.
So his bottom line apparently is this: If Muslims can’t pray, nobody gets to pray.
As an aside, the mayor’s bloviation about the government not playing favorites when it comes to religion is just bilge. He’s clearly playing favorites, and his favoritism is heavily stacked toward Muslims. He is vigorously defending the building of the offensive Ground Zero mosque while his administration at the same time is doing everything in its power to keep the Orthodox church that was destroyed on 9/11 from being rebuilt.
But there is no cultural, historical or constitutional reason why clergy participation on 9/11 should not be reserved for Christians and Jews. This is for one simple reason: this nation was founded on the Judeo-Christian tradition and on faith in the God revealed in the Old and New Testaments. It has always been this God to whom Americans have turned in times of danger, and there is no reason why this God should not be the God to whom prayers are offered on 9/11.
Muslims, meanwhile, pray to a different god. Their god, they insist, has no son. The God of Christians, of course, does have a Son. Paul frequently opens his epistles by making it clear that the God to whom he prays is the “God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ” (2 Cor. 1:3), to distinguish the God of the Scriptures, the true and living God, from all the Roman gods.
This God, the Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, is the God to whom the Founders prayed. It is this God who is the source of “the Laws of Nature” and is in fact “Nature’s God.” This God is the “Creator” who is the source of our “unalienable rights.” They even dated the Declaration of Independence from the year of Christ’s birth, and referred to him in so doing as “our Lord.”
So can public officials restrict public prayers to prayers directed to the God of the Founders? Absolutely. In fact, you can’t get any more American than praying to the same God to which they appealed as the “Supreme Judge of the World.”
It’s a travesty that Mayor Bloomberg is so confused and clueless about America’s history, and so confused and clueless about the threat Islam poses to the West, that he seems to think that if everybody can’t pray, nobody gets to pray.
It’s time to get completely over this mindless obsession with diversity and return to the faith of our Founding Fathers. And the time to start is with this year’s 9/11 ceremony.
Next, the first responders take a hit...
From Technorati.com August 21 by Scott Hewitt
9/11 First Responders Not Invited to Tenth Anniversary Ceremony
For those that may not know of Father Mychal Judge, he was the first officially recognized fatality of terrorist attacks in New York City on Sept. 11, 2001. He was killed when the South Tower of the World Trade Center collapsed just before 10:00 that morning as he was reportedly praying for the safety of first responders among others.
I prefer to believe that Father Judge is not rolling over in his grave these days.
I say that because of recent reports that those very first responders for which Father Judge prayed that morning are apparently not invited by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg to the World Trade Center site to commemorate the 10th anniversary of 9/11, citing “space constraints.”
As a result, I offer the following memo to Mayor Bloomberg: Are you fucking kidding me? Space constraints? Really? Exactly how far up your ass have you planted your thumb, you wretched little prick?
I must not have been paying attention when news of this situation originally broke. When my dad told me about it, I admittedly thought he either misread something online or that there was more to whatever he might have seen on TV about it. I figured that a corrected version of the story would be reported somewhere. Maybe if I clicked my heels twice and said, “There’s no place like home,” whatever Twilight Zone we were in would vanish.
This story had to be a mistake.
Unfortunately, it actually is no mistake, and Bloomberg has specifically not invited the surviving 9/11 first responders to Ground Zero for the 10th anniversary memorial service.
To make up for it, the city of New York announced early last week that “they’ll be invited to a private ceremony on a different date.”
The New York Daily News then reported on Friday that “they will be permitted to watch the remembrance on video screens installed at nearby Zuccotti Park” according to Bloomberg himself the day before.
Well, gee whiz, Mr. Mayor. That’s mighty generous of you, boy howdy. There’s sure as hell nothing nicer than making the surviving men and women whose jobs were to, without hesitation, run into the very face of danger and rescue scores of people inside those buildings watch the ceremony on a video screen from a park almost a quarter of a mile away from the actual site.
Just to sugar coat things a little more, a spokesman for the mayor, Andrew Brent, said that “given the space constraints, we’re working to find ways to recognize and honor first responders, and other groups, at different places and times.” Hell, why don’t we just wait until February 2 and have all the first responders gather in Punxsutawney, Pa. so we can honor them and Punxsutawney Phil at the same time?
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