Anti-Park51 protestors, including firemen, cops and family members of 9/11 victims, convened near Ground Zero on Monday, Aug. 22 to rail against the nonprofit’s potential application for another government grant.
The group has applied for a $5 million Lower Manhattan Development Corporation grant last November.
s outrageous that my tax dollars would go to fund the mosque,” said Firefighter Tom Guarnieri, quoted by the Epoch Times. “If they were able to provide proof beyond a doubt that this money is not tainted in any way… and nobody that is involved with the organization has any links to terrorism, then by all means they are entitled to their mosque. This is the United States of America.”