Cordoba mosque protest rally Sunday near Ground Zero

He continued by saying that the mere prospect of the Ground Zero mosque is insulting. “I think it is a stick in the American people’s eye and they’re just twisting it to see how much we’ll take. If they have sympathy, then they would be building it somewhere else.”

“These groups and people come out every year on 9/11 to honor and pay respect to the site, but this time we are coming out with an added purpose, to demonstrate that, ‘no, no, no, we are not going to cede this hallowed ground to people who want to take the country down,’” Burlingame said. “And if our leaders in Washington don’t get that, the people that they are supposed to serve certainly do.”

According to Gilinsky, some of the confirmed speakers at the rally include Tim Brown (a 9/11 firefighter), Debra Burlingame, Dr. Herbert London (president of Hudson Institute and a neighborhood resident), Simon Deng (former Sudanese slave and human rights activist), Roy Innis (chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality), and James Lafferty (chairman of the Virginia Anti-Shariah Task Force).

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