"It's a very touchy thing because they want to do this on sacred ground," said Dave Kaiser, 38, a blaster who is working to rebuild the World Trade Center site.
"I wouldn't work there, especially after I found out about what the imam said about U.S. policy being responsible for 9/11," Kaiser said.
The grass-roots movement is gaining momentum on the Internet. One construction worker created the "Hard Hat Pledge" on his blog and asked others to vow not to work on the project if it stays on Park Place.
"Thousands of people are signing up from all over the country," said creator Andy Sullivan, a construction worker from Brooklyn. "People who sell glass, steel, lumber, insurance. They are all refusing to do work if they build there."
"Hopefully, this will be a tool to get them to move it," he said. "I got a problem with this ostentatious building looming over Ground Zero."
Louis Coletti, president of the Building Trades Employers' Association, said unions have not yet taken a "formal position" on Park51, but he understands why members would be hesitant to work there.
"It's a very difficult dilemma for the contractors and the organized labor force because we are experiencing such high levels of unemployment," he said. "Yet at the same time, this is a very sacred sight to the union guys."
"There were construction workers killed on 9/11 and many more who got horribly sick cleaning up Ground Zero," Coletti said. "It's very emotional."
19 comments:
Building this place for the muslims
is one of Obama's solution to unemployment. That's really bad , not sick , just really bad. The hard hats are doing a good thing , they will have a lot of support.
How quickly some forget , the enemy is close by.
I am ignorant when it comes to the Muslim prayer time, but at prayer time isn't there (a signal), (hum noise) put out on loud speakers that could be heard for blocks and blocks? If so, then wouldn't this be distracting to the city, especially to ground zero, and especially during remembrances of people lost during September 11?
If this is wrong, I apologize for not knowing and if it is right, maybe this is another way of rubbing Americans' noses on territory where so many people of different cultures lost their lives?
Regardless of anything else, when push comes to shove true AMERICANS will stand together against a bunch of muslims and muslim lovers. Great article to read, makes me proud!!!!!
Hard hats are union, who controls the union.
9:08 dumb@$$. Apart of the hysteria that is ripping this country apart. Where is there a shred of evidence that Obama had anything to do with these plans. Oh thats right, the crazies on the right and left don't need evidence.
And to all the conservative muslim haters. It was mighty funny that you guys were cheerleading Bush's drive into Iraq saying that we needed to bring Democracy to those peace loving muslims who only need to get out of that dictatorship. Now you swear all muslims are out to kill non-muslims. Get a grip. Spend some time outside of the KKK lodge and you will see that anyone who tries to paint an entire group with a single stroke is wrong 9.9 times out of 10 (I am aware of the irony in the last phrase)
The unions will bus in muslim workers...Just watch.
This is exactly what it has always taken in this country. The working class Americans taking a stand against our limp wristed, double talking politicians, who are only interested in the special interest groups who support their piggy banks and private pay-offs (aka speaking engagements, usually to the tune of million$ after they leave office). They conveniently forget the voters that they were elected to represent. Obama, Bloomberg, two liberal ass kissers of a collective group that murdered thousands of Americans. It doesn't take a very big brain to see where politicians true allegiances lie. They are American traitors to the memories of murdered Americans. The ONLY people in this country that have any real right to show forgivness or tolerance for a muslem mosque are the surviving families of those killed on 911. NO one else. And I've not seen any of them take that stand on any of the news media yet. If this doesn't polarize those middle of the road Americans, still standing in our country, then nothing will. A mosque built with arab terrorists money, anywhere near the twin towers makes me mad as hell. FedG
11:22 just got my vote.
If the ground two and a half bloocks away from the site is so sacred, why is the strip club allowed to remain there?
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9:08 dumb@$$. Apart of the hysteria that is ripping this country apart. Where is there a shred of evidence that Obama had anything to do with these plans. Oh thats right, the crazies on the right and left don't need evidence.
And to all the conservative muslim haters. It was mighty funny that you guys were cheerleading Bush's drive into Iraq saying that we needed to bring Democracy to those peace loving muslims who only need to get out of that dictatorship. Now you swear all muslims are out to kill non-muslims. Get a grip. Spend some time outside of the KKK lodge and you will see that anyone who tries to paint an entire group with a single stroke is wrong 9.9 times out of 10 (I am aware of the irony in the last phrase)
11:22 AM
What a liberal moron.
Hey guess what you wet pants liberal. This country would be much better off today if David Duke was the president!!
Ride up into Delmar and check out Marcelis sign in front of the tracks by his fruit and veggie stand, "remember 911 watch where you spend your money" Delmar liqours foreign owned now,ha,ha...
11::22, you're a muslim loving, obama backing jack*ss...did you catch the irony in that moron?!?
11:22 you are the same poster over and over on this forum. NO ONE believes the pro muslim nonsense that you are spreading anymore. America is opening its eyes to what is really going on and this mosque controversy is bringing it to light.
9:19
They call it "The call to prayer" I believe its 5 times a day. There are many towns in Michigan that have been made to allow them to air this screeching over loud speakers.
11:22
I find it ironic you bring up the KKK. Are you saying the KKK is like Islam? Maybe you should do a little more research on the cult they call islam. They have to be told when to pray, how to wipe their behinds, what foot they have to step into the bathroom first with, and oh yeah not to make friends with the infidels. I beleive the verse even says to "smite them above their neck". Go right ahead and befriend them and you will be beheaded! Don't believe me.... ask Daniel Pearl.
11:58
That is actually a little funny. Have you seen how they build things in Muslim countries? When was the last time you actually saw a muslim on a job site. They will probably just bus in Mexicans.
11:22 Also, your continual insults of the people who disagree with your pro muslim rant are sad and say a lot about you. KKK lodge, beer drinking in a tree stand etc...can't you come up with anything better.
11:22
It is true that average Americans are becoming increasiingly arrogant and hate-filled regarding Muslim people in genearal. I am convinced this is so because of the Main Stream Media's slanted point of view. No effort has been done to investigate the many crimes committed against the American people in the past 10 years.
Americans are being conditioned towards racist and bigotted against Muslim populations in specific. In addition we are becoming very racist regarding the Latino population which has been encouraged to invade our Country. No effort has been made to investigate the unarmed (armed?) invastion of our southern border.
The media is helping the governemnt to accept the decline of our Nation. The elites have left us behind and are in fact imploding the once-great-nation that was America.
11:22
You are the dumba$$!
Islam is not a religion. Islam is a way of life including a religion, a goverment, a set of laws, and a military objective.
Muslims are slowely moving into this country not to assimilate, but rather they are here to FORCE their a$$ backward way of life upon all of us.
You are just plain stupid and you remind me of the B movie character that says "don't shoot the monster it just dosn't understand" as the character walks toward the monster and procedes to get shredded!
You are a fool of the worst kind! A willing fool!
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