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I can't say this was too surprising, but now, Barack Obama has come out on the side of imam Feisal Abdul Rauf and his company of thugs who're building the mosque near Ground Zero.

Here is the press release from 9-11 Families for a Safe and Strong America to this act of defeatism by the would-be president:

9/11 Families Stunned by Presidents Support of Mosque at Ground Zero

New York, NY, Aug. 14 — Barack Obama has abandoned America at the place where America’s heart was broken nine years ago, and where her true values were on display for all to see. Since that dark day, Americans have been asked to bear the burden of defending those values, again and again and again. Now this president declares that the victims of 9/11 and their families must bear another burden. We must stand silent at the last place in America where 9/11 is still remembered with reverence or risk being called religious bigots.

Muslims have worshipped in New York without incident both before and after the attacks of 9/11. This controversy is not about religious freedom. 9/11 was more than a “deeply traumatic event,” it was an act of war. Building a 15-story mosque at Ground Zero is a deliberately provocative act that will precipitate more bloodshed in the name of Allah. Those who continue to target and kill American civilians and U.S. troops will see it as a symbol of their historic progress at the site of their most bloody victory. Demolishing a building that was damaged by wreckage from one of the hijacked planes in order to build a mosque and Islamic Center will further energize those who regard it as a ratification of their violent and divinely ordered mission: the spread of shariah law and its subjugation of all free people, including secular Muslims who come to this country fleeing that medieval ideology, which destroys lives and crushes the human spirit.

We are stunned by the president’s willingness to disregard what Americans should be proud of: our enduring generosity to others on 9/11–a day when human decency triumphed over human depravity. On that day, when 3,000 of our fellow human beings were killed in barbaric act of raw religious intolerance unlike this country had ever seen, Americans did not turn outward with hatred or violence, we turned to each other, armed with nothing more than American flags and countless acts of kindness. In a breathtakingly inappropriate setting, the president has chosen to declare our memories of 9/11 obsolete and the sanctity of Ground Zero finished. No one who has lived this history and felt the sting of our country’s loss that day can truly believe that putting our families through more wrenching heartache can be an act of peace.

We will honor the memory of our loved ones. We will protect our children, whose lives will never be the same. We will not stand silent.

Let's not forget that the State Department under Obama has been employing Rauf as a diplomat, something that they must quit doing. Obama's dhimmified statement shows exactly why we cannot stand silent in the war against Islamofascism.

Polls have shown that almost 70 percent of Americans oppose the mosque at Ground Zero, which just shows how Obama is turning a deaf ear and a blind eye to public opinion.

Update: FOX News reports that Obama's misguided statement has created another election year debate subject. And Sarah Palin has written her own response to Obama (via The Weekly Standard), noting how the mosque builders have even rejected the NY governor's offer of another place to build it. Marco Rubio also notes how Charlie Crist, the dreadful governor of Florida, came out in support of Obama and Bloomberg on the issue.

Others on the subject include Doug Powers, Doug Ross, Non Stop Site, Fire Andrea Mitchell, Rhymes With Right, Smart and Silly, Coalition to Honor Ground Zero, Hot Air, Suzy Rice, Political Junkie Mom, Nice Deb, The Weekly Standard, Power Line (plus, this and this), American Kafir, Freedom's Lighthouse, Big Government, Right Pundits, Commentary, Ed Driscoll, Big Journalism, Jihad Watch, Maggie's Notebook, Jumping in Pools, Red State, Atlas Shrugs, Freedom Eden.

Labels: anti-americanism, dhimmitude, islam, jihad, political corruption, State Dept, terrorism, United States