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Bloomberg bans clergy at 9/11 memorial, but promotes mosque at Ground Zero

Posted on August 28, 2011
by creepingsharia

Holding Muslim prayer dinners at Gracie Mansion is ok, but non-Muslims praying at the 9/11 anniversary is not. via Wall Street Journal: Clergy banned from NYC’s September 11 ceremonies:

Prayer and religious leaders have been left out of New York City’s official ceremonies observing the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, reports the Wall Street Journal.

“As the city of New York prepares to remember the 10th anniversary of 9/11, religious leaders are raising concerns over the lack of clergy participating in the anniversary events,” observes Eric Marrapodi, co-editor of CNN’s “Belief Blog” on the Internet.

Fernado Cabrera a New York City councilman and the pastor of New Life Outreach International church in the Bronx, told Marrapodi that he was ”Utterly disappointed and surprised,” over the decision. He has started a petition on Facebook to change that.

Bill Donahue of the Catholic League rejected the mayor’s office explanation of potential controversy over who would get to pray, saying such issues are sorted out all the time for presidential inaugurations and other major events.

“What [the mayor] did is what he often does, which is to make autocratic decisions,” Donahue said. “I don’t think this is something that will sit well with New Yorkers.”

Would the controversy Bloomberg sought to avoid be that an imam would have to be included despite the fact that Muslims planned and carried out the attacks on America on 9/11, and Muslims throughout the Islamic world – including in America – cheered the attacks?

Bloomberg, who makes money selling sharia finance products and spearheaded a drive for the Ground Zero Mosque, has also banned first responders from the tenth anniversary of 9/11. Anger: First responders, clergy excluded from 10th anniversary ceremony:

Following New York City’s announcement that 9/11 first responders will not be invited to the 10th anniversary ceremony, law enforcement officers, firefighters, paramedics, and other volunteers continue to voice their anger and disappointment. In addition, religious leaders in New York City are requesting Mayor Mike Bloomberg to rescind his ban and allow Catholic priests, Jewish rabbis and Protestant ministers a role in the ceremony at ”Ground Zero.”

“Among the honored dead are men and women with whom I’ve worked,” said retired police officer Edie Rojas. “For days after the World Trade Center collapsed, I attended funerals of our honored dead… men from the bomb squad, emergency services, people who were family. And now I’m told I’m not invited?”

“Mayor Bloomberg will be a prominent figure at the 9/11 anniversary. Excuse me! He wasn’t the mayor in 2001,” said an angry First-Grade Detective from the NYPD who spoke on condition of anonymity.

“Actually, the Mayor, President [Barack Obama] and most of the ‘honored guests’ had nothing to do with 9/11 except they give speeches and talk about tolerance towards Muslims, as if we are children,” said the decorated police detective.

A former police officer who responded to the disaster in Manhattan added, “Some of the most important people working that day were the police and fire chaplains who not only prayed and comforted the injured, but also physically helped us in our search and rescue operation,” said retired Officer Benjamin Rodriquez. “They should be allowed to lead the attendees in prayer.”

According to a press statement from the Mayor’s office, New York City officials have promised to hold a ceremony at a later date to honor the 91,000 or so first responders and volunteers who helped in the preliminary search and rescue efforts and the subsequent cleanup in the ensuing 10 months.

“I’m angry about the fact they’ve invited celebrities and political figures to this event, but the real heroes are told they’ll have a ceremony of their own at a later date. That’s like being told at a wedding that you’re seated at the children’s table,” said a New York firefighter who lost a relative on 9/11.

“It just doesn’t mean as much, it means less if it’s not on September 11, and this doesn’ t change the fact that we were not invited to the actual ceremony,” said Katie Jarvez, a first responder from lower Manhattan.

More from the BeliefNet link above:

“Do you remember what things were like in the hours and days following the 9/11 terrorist attacks? Evidently New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg does not,” writes Ken Klukowski in the Washington Examiner. “While the smoke was still rising against a clear sky over Manhattan, Pennsylvania, and Washington, people were flooding to churches across the country and prayer groups spontaneously organized in neighborhoods, schools, and workplaces.”

Days later, recalls Klukowski, President Bush spoke at a national memorial service at our National Cathedral, and clergy of various faiths offered prayers in conjunction with the president’s remarks. And a televised interfaith service was held in New York City, attended by thousands.

However, it won’t be that way on the 10th anniversary, apparently, according to Klukowski:

Yet on the tenth anniversary of 9/11, Bloomberg has decreed that clergy will be excluded from the 9/11 memorial ceremony. Bloomberg—who has a record of hostility toward social-conservative issues – especially Christian issues – says the memorial schedule is too busy to allow prayer.

Bloomberg’s sad exclusion of all prayer and clergy from the 9/11 ceremony is also illustrative of something much broader: political correctness increasingly means intolerance and exclusion of Christians from public life in our society. We see this in bans on prayer at veterans’ funerals in Houston, as well as in criticism of Governor Rick Perry’s day of prayer event.

Ironically, this is what the 9/11 terrorists – jihadists completely intolerant of others’ beliefs – were seeking. And America’s deep, vibrant faith stands against all this. For all these reasons, leaders of our historic faiths must be prominent in any 9/11 memorial service.

In 2051, will 9/11 even be remembered? Will Muslims be celebrating the date at Ground Zero while non-Muslim clergy are banned from speaking? Will the call to prayer be heard at Ground Zero from mosques marking the victorious territory?

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