SIOA Rally Calls for Halt to Plans for Ground Zero Mosque

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NEW YORK, May 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The human rights group Stop
Islamization of America (SIOA) is hosting a rally at Ground Zero to protest the
construction of a mosque at the site of the Islamic terror attack that brought
down the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001. SIOA is one of America's foremost
organizations defending human rights, religious liberty, and the freedom of
speech against Islamic supremacist intimidation and attempts to bring elements
of Sharia to the United States.

Join SIOA's Facebook page here.

Victims of 9/11 – those who lost family or friends, or who were injured on
that day – are especially invited to attend the rally.

The SIOA No 9/11 Mosque Rally will be at Ground Zero on June 6 at 12 noon.
Supporting groups (partial list): ACT for America (ACT Manhattan chapter); Z
Street; Freedom Defense Initiative; No Mosque at Ground Zero; Faith Freedom
International; Stuart Kaufman; American Bulldogs; VAST; and the Center
for Security Policy.

SIOA executive director Pamela Geller commented: "What could be more
insulting and humiliating than a monster mosque in the shadow of the World
Trade Center buildings that were brought down by an Islamic jihad attack?
Any decent, American, Muslim or otherwise, wouldn't dream of such an insult.
It's a stab in eye of America."

"We chose June 6 as the rally date," Geller explained, "because it's D-Day.
In 1944, Americans acted against the evil of Nazism. Now it is time for
Americans to stand up against the evil of Islamic jihad terrorism and Islamic
supremacism."

Said Geller: "The only Muslim center that should be built in the shadow of
the World Trade Center is one that is devoted to expunging the Koran and all
Islamic teachings of the violent jihad that they prescribe, as well as all
hateful texts and incitement to violence."

Speakers at the No 9/11 Mosque will include Nonie Darwish, ex-Muslim and
author of Now They Call Me Infidel; Simon Deng, the Sudanese ex-slave
and campaigner for human rights for Sudanese Christians; James Lafferty of the
Virginia Anti-Shariah Task Force; and Anders Gravers of Stop Islamisation
of Europe (SIOE). Hosting the event are Geller, the popular blogger and
columnist who publishes the acclaimed AtlasShrugs.com blog, and SIOA associate
director Robert Spencer, the bestselling author and director of JihadWatch.org.
Geller is the author (with Spencer) of The Post-American Presidency: The
Obama Administration's War on America (Foreword by Ambassador John Bolton),
coming July 27 from Simon & Schuster.

As a manifestation of Islamic domination and expansionism, mosques have
frequently been placed on the sites of the holy places of other religions. The
Al-Aqsa Mosque, built on top of the Temple of the Jewish people, which is
located in Jerusalem, is the most famous example. Many famous churches have been
turned into mosques, including the Aya Sofya Mosque in Istanbul, which until the
Islamic conquest of Constantinople of 1453 was the grandest church in
Christendom. The Umayyad Mosque in Damascus was, before the Islamic conquest,
the Church of St. John the Baptist. Historian Sita Ram Goel has estimated
that over two thousand mosques in India were built on the sites of Hindu
temples.

Rally speakers and participants will stand with those who lost loved ones on
9/11, and call for an end to plans for this mosque that insults the memory of
those who died on that day.

Ground Zero mosque imam Feisal Abdul Rauf has blamed the West, rather than
Islamic jihadists, for terrorism on several occasions. He has said, according to
Australia's Sun-Herald, that "the U.S. and the West must
acknowledge the harm they have done to Muslims before terrorism can end." On
another occasion he said that "Western active involvement in shaping the
internal affairs of Islamic societies have contributed to the creation of
terrorism done in the name of Islam."

Abdul Rauf has also called Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams'
endorsement of the implementation of Sharia courts in Britain "forward thinking"
– despite Sharia's denial of basic freedoms including the freedom of speech,
freedom of conscience, and equality of rights of all people before the law.

More at the Wall Street Journal here.

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