Imam Feisal Rauf Says That With Bin Laden Death Time to Heal; Freedom Watch Case Against GZ Mosque Proceeding
(New York, New York, May 5, 2011). Today, President Barack Obama will visit with 9/11 victims’ families and lay a wreath at Ground Zero in the wake of the death of Osama Bin Laden. He and many Muslim leaders, in what is obviously a coordinated public relations effort, have called this a time to heal.
By giving Bin Laden a Shariah law Muslim burial at sea and by not releasing the photos of his demise, the President has shown great sensitivity to the Muslim culture and religion. Now is the time for the President to show similar sensitivity to those who died and were seriously injured at 9/11, and it is thus time for him to withdraw his support for the Ground Zero mosque.
Vinny Forras, the brave First Responder who almost died at 9/11 and who is fatally ill as a result of chemical and other poisoning, has brought a class action suit against the Ground Zero mosque and its Imam Rauf, in order to stop this new provocation from being built as planned. The case is not an attack on Islam, but rather is based primarily on a nuisance cause of action; namely that it will be a magnet for more terrorism in New York City. The prospect of more terrorism is particularly apparent, by the Obama administration’s own admission, in retaliation for the death of Bin Laden.
Today, Vinny Forras and his lawyer Larry Klayman respectfully call upon President Obama to exhibit the same degree of courage he displayed in ordering the Bin Laden mission and withdraw his support for the Ground Zero mosque. To build this structure would not only heighten the risk of additional terrorism, but would open the wounds of 9/11. “If this is a time to heal, as both Imam Rauf and the President claim, then the Ground Zero mosque must not reopen the wounds of 9/11,” stated Mr. Forras.
For an interview with Mr. Forras and/or Mr. Klayman, please contact 310-595-0800 or email leklayman@gmail.com. See also www.freedomwatchusa.org and unmasquethemosque.com.