American hero.
(Daily Caller) — Construction worker and lifelong New Yorker Andy Sullivan has taken opposition to the Park51 mosque — slated to be built next to Ground Zero — into his own hands. Sullivan has led the call to get his fellow construction workers to lay down their tools and boycott construction of the mosque.
Sullivan, a witness to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, was shocked to discover that a mosque was going to be built over-looking the site of the World Trade Center carnage — the result of an attack perpetrated terrorists who claimed to be acting in the name of Islam.
When it became clear that there was little institutionally that could be done to stop it, Sullivan started the 9/11 Hard Hat Pledge, getting his peers to refuse to work on any aspect out the mosque.
“[The pledge] was done out of desperation,” Sullivan said Tuesday on Freedom Torch. “Ever since the whole thing about the mosque came on the scene I was very concerned but I thought that between the community groups and our elected officials that this thing would be cut off at the head and we would not have to worry about it. Low and behold, how badly I was wrong. . . . So we were running to catch up to fight this thing.”
Sullivan said there was not much he could do other than take his opposition to the streets.
“I’m done with courts, done with hearings, and votes I am just going to go to the guy or girl I work with and say, ‘excuse me how do you feel about this issue, and if you feel like I do would you stand by my side and support not doing any work or contributing anything to the construction of that mosque in that location?’” Sullivan said. “And it was like I tapped into something that was really buried in the American psyche and all I did was unearth it and it went wild.”