City of Gainesville to observe September 11th anniversary
Press release from City of Gainesville
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The City of Gainesville will observe the 22nd anniversary of the September 11th attacks with a ceremony in remembrance of those who lost their lives as a result of the acts of terror on September 11, 2001.
When: 8:30-9:30 a.m. Mon., Sept. 11
Where: City Hall Plaza, 200 E. University Avenue
A joint honor guard from Gainesville Fire Rescue and the Gainesville Police Department will open the event.
On this National Day of Service and Remembrance, members of the faith community will lead blessings for the departed. City leaders will ask all neighbors to honor the victims of the attacks by observing the day with acts of kindness, generosity, and service.
A moment of silence is scheduled at 8:46 a.m. (EDT), the moment when the first airplane struck the World Trade Center in New York City. In unity with ceremonies across the nation, houses of worship are asked to toll their bells at that time.
The ceremony is free and open to the public and will be recorded for later broadcast on Cox Cable Channel 12.
There were people killed at the Pentagon also. Those people were on active duty defending your freedom.
Ah yes, that day that “somebody did something” (to quote Rep. Ilhan Omar) will be how it’s remembered. Somehow I think that not all “houses of worship” will participate in the bell tolling.
Cut the crap Cataula.
“CHICAGO (Reuters) – American Muslims welcomed Osama bin Laden’s death, hoping it would help cast off a stigma attached to their community since the September 11 attacks.
“It’s the best thing that has happened. Everyone is celebrating,” said Sam Elhaf, 44, capturing the mood in Dearborn, Michigan, the largest U.S. Muslim community.
But Muslims have grown frustrated that their condemnations of bin Laden and al Qaeda have gone unheard as some Americans associate Islam with his message of violent jihad.
“It has been a nightmare to try to constantly explain to ordinary Americans that we are not associated with bin Laden. We have tried very hard to convince people that Muslims are not one monolithic group standing behind this monster,” said Imam Muhammad Musri of the Islamic Society of Central Florida.
“We were also victims of bin Laden’s ideology of hate,” he said. “The man hijacked our religion, committed crimes in the name of our religion and caused the greatest damage to the American Muslim community and Islam.”
Musri and some other Muslim leaders said bin Laden’s killing Monday by U.S. forces in Pakistan gave American Muslims and other Americans an opportunity to correct misunderstandings and bridge differences….”
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“Drivers honked their horns in celebration along the main avenue of Arab-American commerce in the heavily Middle Eastern suburb of Dearborn as news of Osama bin Laden’s death spread across the city. Yet more gathered outside City Hall, chanting “U.S.A.” and waving American flags.
“It’s a special day for us to show Americans we are celebrating, we are united,” said Ahmed Albedairy, 35, of Dearborn, who came to the U.S. from Iraq in 1996 and was one of about 20 people outside City Hall very early Monday. He said it was important to celebrate the “death of the evil Osama bin Laden” in “the center of Dearborn.”
Drivers honked their horns in celebration along the main avenue of Arab-American commerce in the heavily Middle Eastern suburb of Dearborn as news of Osama bin Laden’s death spread across the city. Yet more gathered outside City Hall, chanting “U.S.A.” and waving American flags.
“It’s a special day for us to show Americans we are celebrating, we are united,” said Ahmed Albedairy, 35, of Dearborn, who came to the U.S. from Iraq in 1996 and was one of about 20 people outside City Hall very early Monday. He said it was important to celebrate the “death of the evil Osama bin Laden” in “the center of Dearborn.”
Gosh, you believe that Reuters is anything more than Beelzebub’s mouthpiece? “Ha Ha Ha” to quote the Hellraiser pinhead, who was quoted laughing in Faith Collapsing by the group called Ministry (search youtube “Faith Collapsing Ministry”, go to 0:30)
You never fail to assault American Heroes, and insult free Americans with your signature garbage spewing!
You’re a mouthpiece for the Democrats and statements you make cannot be MIStaken for truth!
You cut and paste crap from the Mainstream Media which are controlled by the Dimwit Party (Alachua County included)!
Try walking into Dearborn MI Arab neighborhoods with a camera and you will find out how “tolerant” they are! You will get your a$$ whipped much like photo journalists did some 20 years ago at a “Muslim Only” event! What a dupe you are!
Dearborn MI Arabs have enacted Sharia Law and you would defend their right to do so!
“For years, there’s been an absolutely stupid rumor that the Detroit suburb of Dearborn, birthplace of Henry Ford, is now under extreme Muslim Sharia law.
Sharron Angle, a bizarrely ignorant Tea Party candidate, claimed this was so when she was running for the U.S. Senate in Nevada five years ago.
Two weeks ago, Jerry Boykin, an anti-Muslim former U.S. army general, did it again. Boykin, now the executive vice president of something called the Family Research Council, went on a talk show to claim that radical Muslims were so firmly in control in Dearborn that Detroit police only enter the town in emergencies.
Well, part of that is true. Detroit cops don’t go there because Dearborn is a separate city and has its own police. But Dearborn’s mayor is named Jack O’Reilly, and the city is no more under Sharia law than Roswell is under space alien law.
I don’t know if Mayor O’Reilly gets sick of explaining all this. But I know that a delightful young man named Brian Stone came up with a great way to try to laugh this nonsense away.
Stone, a 28-year-old Dearborn native, Navy veteran, and college student, has been posting pictures of himself holding a sign saying “Dearborn Sharia Law!” in front of some decidedly un-sharia landmarks in his city.
They include a strip club, a Roman Catholic school, city hall and a Honeybaked Ham store…”
Solely blaming Muslims or Arabs for 911 is akin to blaming a lone shooter for the JFK assassination, or solely blaming COVID on China, or blaming Iraq invasion on the nonexistent weapons of mass destruction, or blaming Vietnam War on the Gulf of Tonkin false flag. That’s just a few examples. We really need to start holding our own govt accountable