That Building IS Ground Zero

To all those putrid shills and apologists for the stealth jihadists behind the ground zero islamic supremacist mosque, that building IS part of ground zero. The wreckage from one of the planes that was flown into the World Trade Center smashed into The Burlington Coat Factory. As to that despicable punk Pelley from 60 Minutes who denied the building for the proposed mosque was ground zero and chastised Pam Geller for truthfully referring to it as such, as well as that filthy slob Bob Beckel, both shills for jihad, they need to hear the story of this former marine from New Rochelle, Peter Parente, who was at the site just days after 9/11.

New Rochelle Marine Disputes Defenders of ‘Ground Zero’ Mosque in New York City

Submitted by Robert Cox, New Rochelle Talk

(NEW ROCHELLE, NY) — The ongoing debate over the controversial Islamic community center and mosque planned for the site of what was to have been a Burlington Coat Factory retail outlet in lower Manhattan, has left Peter Parente frustrated. Parente, 42, a U.S. Marine honorably discharged in 1993, was part of the small team of construction workers assigned to clear plane wreckage from the building located at 45–47 Park Place in the days after 9/11.

Sitting at the kitchen table in his modest three-bedroom home in the Halcyon Park section of New Rochelle, Parente is uncomfortable talking about the proposed community center and mosque. He said that his service in the United States Marines was dedicated to defending the Constitution and the American way of life, and while he recognizes the First Amendment right of the organizers to build a mosque on the site, he struggles with coming to peace with the plan. But his eyes light up and there is no hesitation when asked about proponents of the mosque who dismiss critics by claiming that the building is not really that close to Ground Zero.

“I was there”, said Parente. “I smelled death. I tasted death. It was in the air that we breathed as we worked. Don’t tell me that the building is not near Ground Zero. It was all around us.”

On September 11, 2001, United Airlines Flight 175 struck the South Tower of the World Trade Center. A part of the plane’s landing gear and fuselage came out the north side of the tower, crashed through the roof of the building at 45–47 Park Place and down through two floors before becoming embedded in the ceiling of the third floor of what was a five-story building.

It was that piece of wreckage that first attracted Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, 61, the man behind building the proposed 13-story Islamic community center and mosque, to the site. The presence of Park51 “where a piece of the wreckage fell sends the opposite statement to what happened on 9/11″, Imam Feisal told the New York Times last December before the controversy began.

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