This thread was never posted to suppress freedom of worship, IT IS ABOUT THE DOUBLE STANDARD that has been set by this nation to accomodate Muslims while denying the same liberties to people of other faiths.

(My friend, Dee Ann Campbell, says it best and it's exactly my thoughts, as well).
"While we should never restrict the freedom of religion in this nation, we should be more than a little outraged about this gathering and about the highjacking of our religious freedoms in general.

It is true our nation was founded on the principles of freedom, including freedom to express our faith in the public forum. Our forefathers believed in our right to believe, or not to believe, in a Higher Power that guides our destiny.

Some of our elite leftist leaders have traveled far away from the true tenets of freedom of faith. For many, that freedom to worship the God of our choosing and to express that freedom in the public square now applies to everyone except those who profess Christianity.

The double-standard is obvious. Everywhere you look, there are SPECIAL arrangements expressly to aide those who practice Islam.

Schools in other parts of the country where there are large numbers of Muslim residents are allowing students to go into a separate room prior to lunch in order to bow to the East and say their prayers.

But Christians - who by the way still make up more than 60% of the US population - cannot utter a prayer in public, much less be given special privileges at school in order to accomodate their faith. On the contrary, Christian students are told they must squelch their faith when they step foot over the threshold of the school door.

Nativity scenes and other Christian symbols have been all but banned in the public square, and monuments displaying the Ten Commandments have been relegated to a back closet of government office buildings. All the while, Muslims have special rooms set up for their expressions of faith in airports and other public places.

Even still, even with the blatant discrimination against all things Christian, and the placating of the Muslim population by those who call themselves 'progressive', those factors are secondary to the real reason why we should be outraged at the upcoming Muslim event in Washington.

We should be outraged because of the day we just observed, September 11.

Unfortunately, many of us seem to have forgotten what happened eight years ago on that date. We have forgotten how it felt to see those towers burn and fall to the ground, with 3,000 people inside. We have forgotten the sight of those souls jumping to their death from hundreds of stories up, rather than burn to death in their offices.

We have forgotten the resolve that we had to bring to justice those who were responsible, and those nations who would harbor them. We've not only forgotten the tragedy of 9/11, but we have also gone beyond that. In our quest to be the 'enlightened', modern globe-hugging American-bashing society that we are progressing rapidly toward, we have wrapped our arms around the radical Muslim world - as if we must beg for its forgiveness for all the 'atrocities' that 'forced' them to attack us on 9/11.

True enough, many Muslims are not the radical extremists who sanctioned and carried out the attack on our country. But right now, while we are in the middle of a war against radical Islam, we should be outraged at the blatant celebration of the Muslim faith in this country.

The event coming up in Washington is, quite simply, a slap in the face of the families of those heroes who died that day, and the military heroes who have died in pursuit of justice since then."

My post script to the above is, as you know, I lost a family member who is a military hero. Yesterday I received news that my first cousin, who was an FBI agent in NY on 9/11, was diagnosed last week with a rare form of cancer in his kidneys, liver, lungs and heart. He has been given ONE MONTH to live; he is one of the heroes suffering from the same type of cancer that has and is killing so many people who were exposed to the airborne substances that day. I exercise my right to be outraged at the upcoming event in Washington. Give me back my rights to have a nativity scene, to pray in public, to hear prayers at ball games, and give students back their rights to read the Bible and pray at school.

Have we forgotten? YES -- and then some.