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June 2010
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The Honorable Michael Bloomberg

Mayor
The Honorable City Council Members

City of New York

36 West 44th Street Suite 707

New York NY 10036

Dear Mayor Bloomberg and Members of City Council

Beach and the Commonwealth of

We the citizens of the City of Virginia Virginia birthplace of our great nation
are strongly opposed to the plan to build amosque at the very site where Islamist jihadists destroyed the World
Trade Center and took the lives of nearly 000 people on September 11
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We strongly opposed to the grotesque symbolism represented by the building of this mosque at Ground Zero
are

We especially appalled that those promoting this disrespectful idea for this mosque have designated its grand
are

opening date for September 11 2011 the tenyear anniversary of the worst domestic terrorist attack in U S history

the families
We are deeply disturbed by the insensitivity exhibited by Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf and his supporters to

that Islamists and their allies

of the victims of the 9
11 jihadist attack We find it grossly hypocritical repeatedly
lecture Americans about the need to be sensitive to Muslims yet Imam Rauf and his allies exhibit the ultimate
display of intolerance and insensitivity through their disgusting proposal to build a mosque at Ground Zero

about 11 including
9 his that
We are highly offended by the views Imam Rauf has expressed conspiratorial theory
Muslims did not perpetrate the 9 11 attack and that America
s policies were partly to blame for the attack Such

11 and those who cherish their memory

views are a slap in the face to the victims and families of 9

We find it repulsive that Imam Rauf and his followers and supporters would seek to build a mosque near Ground
Zero while simultaneously promoting the same Sharia ideology that the 9
11 hijackers embraced as justification

for their act of unconscionable murder The irony and disrespect this exhibits is an indignity to the victims their

families and all Americans

Therefore of respect to the families of the 1

out 9 1 victims and their memory we strongly urge the elected officials

of theCity of New York to oppose thebuilding of this mosque at Ground Zero and urge them to insist that Feisal

Abdul Rauf and his followers look elsewhere to carry out their plans

Sincerely

2401 COURTHOUSE DRIVE VIRGINIA BEACH VIRGINIA 23456