I have no grave site to visit, no place to bring my mother her favorite yellow flowers, no spot where I can hold my weary heart close to her. All I have is Ground Zero.
-Neda Bolourchi
Neda was born in Iran before the crazy Ayatollah took over. Thus, her family led relatively secular lives. They fled to America to escape the fanatical regime. Her mother was on United 175 when it was slammed into the World Trade Center by Muslim extremists.
She isn’t buying the argument that a monstrous mega mosque 600 feet from Ground Zero is going to somehow improve the image of Islam in America:
But a mosque near Ground Zero will not move this conversation forward. There were many mosques in the United States before Sept. 11; their mere existence did not bring cross-cultural understanding. The proposed center in New York may be heralded as a peace offering — may genuinely seek to focus on ‘promoting integration, tolerance of difference and community cohesion through arts and culture,’ as its Web site declares — but I fear that over time, it will cultivate a fundamentalist version of the Muslim faith, embracing those who share such beliefs and hating those who do not.
Peaceful Muslims like Neda Bolourchi should be speaking out. And when they do, we should give them at least as much attention as we give the radicals who want to kill us.
Muslim 9/11 Victim: Built the Mosque Elsewhere
-Neda Bolourchi
Neda was born in Iran before the crazy Ayatollah took over. Thus, her family led relatively secular lives. They fled to America to escape the fanatical regime. Her mother was on United 175 when it was slammed into the World Trade Center by Muslim extremists.
She isn’t buying the argument that a monstrous mega mosque 600 feet from Ground Zero is going to somehow improve the image of Islam in America:
Peaceful Muslims like Neda Bolourchi should be speaking out. And when they do, we should give them at least as much attention as we give the radicals who want to kill us.