The placement of Islamic prayer rugs in front of the FDNY’s memorial plaque for firefighters killed on 9/11 has angered members who contend the Ramadan observance disrespected the fallen FDNY heroes.
SusanEdelman Last week, the FDNY Islamic Society, a fraternal group of Muslim employees –“in coordination with the FDNY and the Muslim Mayor’s Office,” officials say – hosted an iftar, an evening meal to break the daily fast during the month of Ramadan.
For the first time in memory, however, participants placed more than a dozen Islamic prayer rugs in the FDNY lobby, an unofficial photo shows – next to a large memorial plaque with the names of firefighters killed in the line of duty, including the 343 who perished in the World Trade Center terror attacks.
On an opposite wall, not shown, another plaque displays the names of 409 FDNY members who have died of cancer and other illnesses linked to the toxic smoke and dust at Ground Zero, the decimated World Trade Center site, after the terror attacks.
NYC Councilmember Joann Ariola, R-Queens, said her office has received more than 20 complaints from 9/11 first responders and relatives of FDNY members killed or sickened on 9/11. “As someone who respects the sacrifices made by all FDNY members, I believe the Muslim group involved, along with city leadership (including the Mayor), showed a real lack of sensitivity,” an active firefighter wrote.
Ariola said in a statement, “This is a building full of conference rooms and meeting spaces, and they had the entire auditorium for their event. Why, of all places, did they choose a hallway directly in front of a 9/11 memorial?” “It is a memorial, and should be sacrosanct, not a space for Muslims to congregate (many of whom would no doubt be celebrating 9/11 as a victory for Islam).
Eyewitnesses watched as dozens of people in two separate groups in Jersey City celebrated as the Twin Towers fell, according to a new report confirming Donald Trump’s much-maligned claim that “thousands” of Muslims hailed the tragedy. A now-retired police captain said he cleared a rooftop celebration of around 25 people from an apartment building with a view of the towers, according to the report. “Some men were dancing, some held kids on their shoulders,” said the captain, Peter Gallagher.
seeing this makes me glad that America has good gunlaws. if i were there i would get a couple of good guns then this shit has no place here were my people died because of them and their shitty little prophet, be shit upon his shitty head.
They love rubbing it in your face don’t they ? My his , these filth know no bounds !
Where’s Needle-man when you need him?