Hat tip: Bare Naked Islam
KENT, Conn. — Peter Gadiel wants everyone to remember his son, James,
who was killed during the September 11 terrorist attacks.
And he also wants people to remember how he died: "Murdered by Muslim terrorists."
Heroes to many Muslims
in England.
For Gadiel, any tribute to his son would be woefully incomplete
without those words.
"I think it's important, because I think there's a nationwide effort to suppress
the identity of the people who were involved in the attacks,"
Gadiel told Fox News.
Eight years ago, 23-year-old James Gadiel worked for Cantor Fitzgerald on the
103rd floor of the World Trade Center. He died when a hijacked plane
crashed into the North Tower.
For years, Gadiel's hometown of Kent, Conn., has wanted to honor the
young man with a memorial plaque next to its town hall. But the tribute
has hit a snag because James' father wants to include the phrase,
"Murdered by Muslim terrorists," under his son's name.
For Peter Gadiel, it is a central fact of the Sept. 11 attacks that is often left out.
"It isn't just overlooked, it's suppressed," Gadiel said. "It's simply wrong to
imply that people just died. The buildings didn't just collapse,
they didn't just fall down — they were attacked by people with a
specific identity, a specific purpose."
Town officials call the phrase too controversial for a small town memorial,
and they recently voted against erecting the plaque if Gadiel insists on the language.
"We perceive ourselves as a very warm, loving town," said Ruth Epstein, a Kent selectman
and one of two town leaders to vote the plaque down. "To disparage any one ethnic group
is just against everything that we stand for here."
How would Ms. Epstein feel if it was one of
her children that had been killed by these
murdering scum?
Epstein noted that other Sept. 11 memorials, like the one at the Pentagon,
don't mention Muslim terrorists, and she said she does not want to alienate
any members of her small and close-knit community.
"We have at least one Muslim family living here with children and it — it would
be just awful to have them see something like that," Epstein told Fox News.
Why? Islam never wants to take
responsibility for the horror that
is inherently found within Islam
and it's holy book, the Koran.
But for Gadiel, it's an important message that he insists be present on
any tribute to his son.
"Muslims have to acknowledge that it was their co-religionists who committed
this act in their name," he said. "I am offended that unlike so many others,
they refuse to acknowledge that it was their people who did this."
They will never acknolwedge that it was
their fellow Muslims that did this on 9/11.
That would unheard of for Islam or most
Muslims. Islam offends me. We can rest
easy in knowing that if this memorial ever
does get bulit with such words inscribed,
CAIR and the ISNA would be right there,
ready to start litigations and threats against
the town for erecting such a truthful
memorial. Islam has never been asble to handle
the truth.
