Please check out my June op-ed on this issue and why building this mosque is absolutely the wrong thing to do and totally disrespectful to both the victims and survivors of the 9/11 attack.  Then, you can follow along as the debate heated up over the summer.

I've been attacked time and again by Liberals who don't understand my personal connection to 9/11, and their arguments consist of "why should you care, you're not a New Yorker!"  To that I answer, this is not merely a New York concern.  This is an American concern, and one on which the people have spoken loud and clear:  a supermajority of Americans OPPOSE the construction of a mosque on our near Ground Zero.  Yet once again, Democrat leaders are determined to thwart the will of the people in pursuit of their own political agenda.

Please read the following article by a British writer who clearly sees the U.S. making the same terrible mistakes in dealing with Islam that the U.K. has already made:   Ground Zero Mosque Hurts Islam.

More from 9/11 Families below...

I stand strongly with 9/11 Families in their reaction to Obama's betrayal:

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.