Posted by
Bob Siegel on Friday, October 30, 2009 5:24:22 PM
Peter Gadiel's son Peter was killed in the World Trade Center on 9/11. Gadiel wants to put up a plaque memorial in his home town of Kent, Connecticut saying, "Murdered by Muslim terrorists."
Now take a wild guess about how the city council responded. In the words of Kent selectman, Ruth Epstein, who helped vote the idea down, "We perceive ourselves as a very warm, loving town. To disparage any one ethnic group is just against everything that we stand for here."
Putting aside the fact that a father should be able to memorialize his own son any way he wishes, there is this other big elephant in the room: The words on the plaque are true!!! Will it offend Muslims? I'm sure it will, but one would think they'd be a lot more offended that 3000 Americans were murdered in the name of their religion and feel bad that this poor man had to put up any plaque at all.
Well, never mind. I have the perfect solution, one that might satisfy Mr.Gadiel and satiate our appetite for Political Correctness at the same time. Write on the plaque: "Murdered by Muslim terrorists, but remember, Christianity did the same kinds of things 1000 years ago during the Crusades."
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