The NY Post, Daily News, and Fox News have wedge-geed a good segment of the American public’s shorts and panties tight up the crack of their ass. I have to admit that putting a mosque several blocks from the ‘hallowed’ site of 9/11, but I’ve also felt that nothing should have been built of that ground, where so many Americans died on that fateful day.
No skyscrapers, no mosques, no nothing.
Only a flame.
Real estate prices in Lower Manhattan mandate the erection of new towers for commercial space. One Freedom Tower had been downgraded along with Freedom Fries to One World Trade. Rents will be exorbitant. Windows Of The World should have been the crowning glory, but the building’s owners are still in negotiations to award the 105th floor to the right client.
It will no be a mosque or a church or a temple.
They don’t pay taxes and New York City survives on taxes.
No income will be derived from the new mosque near the old WTC site. The strip clubs on the same street will pay more. This weekend pro and con groups demonstrated before the construction site. The NY Post acted as if this was the end of the world.
“It’s an insult to the memory of the fallen.”
Maybe.
And this morning in the diamond exchange the opinion was firmly against the mosque.
“Do you have any idea why we were attacked on 9/11?”
This was a question that I asked my older brother two weeks after the attack.
“It doesn’t matter.”
And this was everyone’s answer today.
Nine years later no one is willing to ask this question, because it has too many answers.
“The Muslims want to dominate the world.” Andy the security guard was blowing steam out of his ears. He had fought in Vietnam. We are friendly antagonists at the best of times, but this issue had him seeing red. “You’re a traitor.”
“And you’re a fucking loser.”
The lines have been drawn long in advance for this moment. He stormed off in anger and I shuddered in then horror that my countrymen can not view the attack with cold blood. I’m half-Irish. We believe in revenge. Usually against the nearest fuck. And that happened to be the Afghanis. Stupid Taliban had shelter the murdering Al-Quada.
But that had nothing to do with why we were attacked on 9/11.
That question can not be answered until people are willing to hear the question and ask why.
Maybe next year.
Until then go-go bars next to the mosque.
To the Left and Right.