REPLACE IT WITH 9/11 WAS AN INSIDE JOB….
[9/8/16] A group of Muslims in the New York town of Owego are upset by a new 9/11 memorial honoring those who died at the hand of Islamic terrorists on Sept. 11, 2001.
Members of the Islamic Organization of the Southern Tier took issue with the fact that the memorial refers to the attackers as “Islamic terrorists” — a phrase they believe encourages hatred toward Muslims. Instead, the group asked that the monument say either “terrorists” or “al-Qaeda terrorists.”
But the request is not being met with positive responses from city officials.
“They want us to change the word from ‘Islamic Terrorist’ to either ‘terrorist’ or ‘Al Qaeda terrorist,’” City Manager Donald Castelluci told Fox News columnist Todd Starnes. “I sent them back an email saying I disagreed with their premise 100 percent.”
The city manager added that he has no intention to change the inscription on the memorial, telling WICZ-TVthat he doesn’t live in a “politically-correct world,” but rather lives in a “historical fact world … Whether it’s American, homegrown, Christianity, Islamic, you call it what it is. And we don’t whitewash things, especially here.”
The full inscription on the memorial reads:
On September 11, 2001 nineteen Islamic terrorists unsuspectedly boarded four airliners departing east coast airports to hijack the planes and carry out a series of coordinated attacks against the United States. This is a tribute to all the lives lost that day and to the heroic sacrifice of all who rushed to help. As Americans, we honor…CONTINUE READING