Muslim Groups Complains Town’s 9/11 Memorial is Offensive Because it Mentions Islam


The Islamic Organization of the Southern Tier is upset because the town of Owego is dedicating a memorial to the lives lost in the 9/11 attacks that contains the worlds “Islamic terrorists.”  The town’s leadership has chosen to tell this group to take a hike.  Here’s the whole text that appears on the monument:

On September 11, 2001, nineteen Islamic terrorists unsuspectedly boarded four airliners departing East Coast airports to hijack the planes and carry out a series of coordinated attacks against the United States.

This is a tribute to all who lost their lives that day and to all the heroic sacrifice of all who rushed to help.

As Americans, we honor their memory by living our lives in freedom. We will never forget.

The Islamic group has written to the city’s officials to complain about the use of the word “Islamic” on that memorial. In a victory in the battle against political correctness, here’s how the town’s leaders replied:

Town Supervisor Donald Castellucci told local Fox 40: “I don’t live in a politically correct world. I live in a historical fact world and cross-terrorism, whether it’s American, homegrown, Christianity, Islamic, you call it what it is. And, we don’t whitewash things, especially here. And, we think we’ve done the accurate citing of what happened.”

Now we recognize that there are many theories supported by reputable individuals and organizations that have grave questions about what really happened on that awful day. And that’s well worth the vigorous debate that is still on-going.

But that’s not the point here.  This is part of the battle against political correctness, and for the ability to exercise freedom of speech, even if some powerful interest group gets offended.  And for that we salute the leadership of Owego, which isn’t going to let political correctness interfere with their efforts to honor those who died that day.

Source:  Personal Liberty



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