Hey Mommy, how was your commute today?

If you are in favor of the 13-story mosque @ Ground Zero, you can skip this post. - Tish


February 26th 1993, 9/11 and the bombings in London (while vacationing with my husband) in 2007 changed my life & thinking forever, (i.e. Embrace the wonderment of everyday because it could be your last). Some of my earlier posts captured those experiences, but this is what's on my mind today:

For years, on my way to work @ my job at ADP Brokerage Services Group I literally walked past the make-shift mosque one floor up from the Chinese restaurant in Journal Square, Jersey City as I headed to-and-from the NJ Path Train station. This mosque was used as a camouflaged safe house by Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman to inspire young men - who worshipped HIM daily - to want to murder all of us.

During many morning commutes, the blind Sheik sat a mere arms-length from me on the wall in the open Square surrounded by dozens of these young adoring followers dressed in traditional white garb as they waited for others to arrive by Path Train.

In 1993, they blew a 10-story gaping hole inside the World Trade Center using a bomb placed in a U-Haul truck they had rented from a gas station at the foot of the Bayonne Bridge in New Jersey. Only 6 dead & 1,042 injured, so they vowed to come again. On September 11th, 2001 - others finished the job.

This week, the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission voted to put a 13-story mega-mosque-monument at the foot of that place where 9/11 hijackers murdered nearly 3,000 of my fellow commuters. Muslims aren't destroying America. Our blood drips from the hands of the self-absorbed children of the Greatest Generation whose attack on our country from within is fueled by their devotion to insane political correctness run amok.

- Make no mistake, I respect all religions and I have a long past performance history of embracing diversity in all its forms. I could not succeed in my work or life if this was not the case. Having said that, I vote they build a mosque - the same 13-story mosque - build it anywhere, but no - not there. Not here - not in the shadow of Ground Zero.

The 9/11 Families and the eye witnesses of this tragedy and enormity of horror have no chance of ever fully recovering from this day until the day we die, so we can't allow people - who defy transparency from around the globe - to use this sacred ground to mock us with grandeur.

My prayer for the next generation is that they can commute to their jobs in peace and always make it home to their kids.

"Hey Mommy, how was your commute today?"

"It went great, but I hope you know how happy I am to be home with you!"

"Now - Which is it: Chinese food or Pizza Express?"


Respectfully submitted,
Tish


PS - That Terrorist Attack Everyone Forgot: And who was the Mastermind - Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman from that make-shift mosque in Jersey City - (I'll never forget. - Tish)

From Wikipedia

The 1993 World Trade Center bombing occurred on February 26, 1993, when a truck bomb was detonated below the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. The 1,500 lb (680 kg) urea nitrate–hydrogen gas enhanced device[1] was intended to knock the North Tower (Tower One) into the South Tower (Tower Two), bringing both towers down and killing thousands of people.[2][3] It failed to do so, but did kill six people and injured 1,042.

The attack was planned by a group of conspirators including Ramzi Yousef, Mahmud Abouhalima, Mohammad Salameh, Nidal A. Ayyad, Abdul Rahman Yasin and Ahmad Ajaj. They received financing from Khaled Shaikh Mohammed, Yousef's uncle. In March 1994, four men were convicted of carrying out the bombing: Abouhalima, Ajaj, Ayyad and Salameh. The charges included conspiracy, explosive destruction of property and interstate transportation of explosives. In November 1997, two more were convicted: Yousef, the mastermind behind the bombings, and Eyad Ismoil, who drove the truck carrying the bomb