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Father of 9/11 Victim Fights to Have ‘Murdered by Muslim Terrorists’ Inscribed on Son’s Memorial
KENT, Conn. — Peter Gadiel wants everyone to remember his son, James, who was killed during the September 11 terrorist attacks.
And he also wants people to remember how he died: “Murdered by Muslim terrorists.”
But town officials claim the truth somehow harms their imaginary “very warm, loving town” and that it would somehow “disparage one ethnic group…”
For Gadiel, any tribute to his son would be woefully incomplete without those words.
“I think it’s important, because I think there’s a nationwide effort to suppress the identity of the people who were involved in the attacks,” Gadiel told Fox News. Continued beneath the fold>>
Cartoon Rage: Two Arrested in Chicago for Plotting Jihad Terror Against Danish Newspaper
Cartoon Rage Update. “US charges two over ‘terror plot,’” from the BBC, October 27 H/T JW
Two men in the US city of Chicago have been charged with planning attacks on foreign targets, the US justice department has said.
David Coleman Headley, 49, and Tahawwur Hussain Rana, 48, were both arrested earlier this month.
Among their alleged targets was a Danish newspaper that printed a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed in 2005, sparking angry protests from Muslims.
Prosecutors say Mr Headley travelled to Denmark twice to plan an attack.
The justice department said it had uncovered “a serious plot against overseas targets”.
Mr Headley, who changed his name from Daood Gilani in 2006, was arrested on 3 October as he was about to travel to Pakistan.
He has been charged with “conspiracy to commit terrorist acts involving murder and maiming” outside the US and also with conspiracy to provide material support for the attack.
Prosecutors allege he visited the Copenhagen and Arhus offices of the Jyllands-Posten newspaper, which printed the cartoons, for surveillance purposes.
The charge sheet alleges he also travelled to Pakistan to meet members of the Islamic militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba….
Continued: Murdered by Islamic Terrorists
Eight years ago, 23-year-old James Gadiel worked for Cantor Fitzgerald on the 103rd floor of the World Trade Center. He died when a hijacked plane crashed into the North Tower.
For years, Gadiel’s hometown of Kent, Conn., has wanted to honor the young man with a memorial plaque next to its town hall. But the tribute has hit a snag because James’ father wants to include the phrase, “Murdered by Muslim terrorists,” under his son’s name.
For Peter Gadiel, it is a central fact of the Sept. 11 attacks that is often left out.
“It isn’t just overlooked, it’s suppressed,” Gadiel said. “It’s simply wrong to imply that people just died. The buildings didn’t just collapse, they didn’t just fall down — they were attacked by people with a specific identity, a specific purpose.”
Town officials call the phrase too controversial for a small town memorial, and they recently voted against erecting the plaque if Gadiel insists on the language.
“We perceive ourselves as a very warm, loving town,” said Ruth Epstein, a Kent selectman and one of two town leaders to vote the plaque down. “To disparage any one ethnic group is just against everything that we stand for here.”
Epstein noted that other Sept. 11 memorials, like the one at the Pentagon, don’t mention Muslim terrorists, and she said she does not want to alienate any members of her small and close-knit community. (the Pentagon is already in a state of full blown dhimmitude, and totally infiltrated with Muslims/ed)
“We have at least one Muslim family living here with children and it — it would be just awful to have them see something like that,” Epstein told Fox News.
But for Gadiel, it’s an important message that he insists be present on any tribute to his son.
“Muslims have to acknowledge that it was their co-religionists who committed this act in their name,” he said. “I am offended that unlike so many others, they refuse to acknowledge that it was their people who did this.”
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Ruth Epstein. Enemy of America. Wants to get you and me killed. Naive idiot who runs her fool mouth about things she doesn’t have the courage to investigate…like Islam.
Good on this brave , honourable father standing up for the truth in the face of oppression and endless lies.
Well done, Peter Gadiel!!! A brave and honest man who is not afraid to speak the truth that many others, as plain as daylight, simply refuse to see!!
I hope all goes well with your legal battle, as to put it quite simply, your son and 3500 other innocent victims were murdered by muslims. Not extremists, not fanatics or any other fancy word that the media seems to bandy about in the name of political correctness (we’re all capable of extremism these days according to the papers, don’t ya know), they were normal, every day followers of islam.
I don’t need to tell people who read this site to wake up, the very fact you are here is great testament to the good work that the Sheik and others who work on this site do!
James Russell Lowell wrote in 1844:
“They enslave their children’s children who make compromise with sin”.
This woman (Epstein) is just colluding to supress a truth that like the suppressionof any truth merely hides its reality for a moment in time.
The harvest is reaped by the next generation and the one following, just so that Epstein et al can feel comfortable and pretend that things are OK after all.
Again from James Russell Lowell: “Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong foever on the throne.”
But for a season only
This father needs cultural sensitivity training. Send him to a university (any one, there’ll all the same!) for an intensive course.
“Murdered by Muslim terrorists,” the very idea. We know the men who did this were anti-Islamic extremists.
Maybe he could put “murdered by those who misunderstood Islam and were alienated and radicalised by the racist imperialist colonialist West, especially America and Israel.”
There, that sounds much better.
MASH message for Peter Gadiel:
Dear Mr. Gadiel,
You said: “Muslims have to acknowledge that it was their co-religionists who committed this act in their name.” We couldn’t agree with you more. Please know that there are Muslims who are disgusted with Kent officials’ cowardice. Without acknowledging what happened on 9/11, there is no way forward. Germany acknowledged the Holocaust and other atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis in WWII and Germans became a better people for it. We would like to add our voices to your demand that “Murdered by Muslim terrorists” be added on your son’s memorial plaque.
Respectfully,
Muslims Against Sharia
http://muslimsagainstsharia.blogspot.com/2009/10/father-of-911-victim-fights-to-have.html
Cassandra – you would almost certainly get a job as speech writer for obamamesiah, :-)))
Muslims against Sharia – keep up the good work – we need the good guys to take center stage and push the “animals” into the pit.
Hi MASH.
Just an idea but I think that if you wrote to the respective Kent officials that would help Mr. Gadiel quite a lot. Maybe you’d like to think about doing that?
cheers
kaw
Great job, MASH!!