From August 19 - 22nd I was on a pilgrimage. I was one of @ 1000 motorcyclists who participed in the America's 911 Foundation Memorial Ride which is "about remembering the heroes, volunteers and victims who lost their lives on September 11, 2001 and since."

This was the tenth annual ride, and we rode to Shanksville, Pa, the Pentagon, and Ground Zero in New York City, the sites of the worst attacks on American soil in our history. We would do @900 miles from Thursday through Sunday.

At 4:45 on Thursday morning (day 1), I rode to the firehouse in Floral Park, NY to meet several buddies from the Patriot Guard, and members of the Floral Park Fire Department to ride to White House, NJ where we were to meet with other groups on the way to Somerset, PA, where we would spend the night. There were 13 of us, who set out. One of the riders from Floral Park is the chief of the fire department, Ken Fairben, who lost his son Keith on 9/11 at Ground Zero. It took months to find Keith's remains and, when they finally found him he was holding the body of an older woman, whom he had died trying to rescue. Ken correctly states that his son didn't just die, Keith was murdered. And Ken is dedicated to keeping alive the memory of his son, and the others who were murdered on that day.

The reigning Miss USA has come out against the Ground Zero mosque, saying "it shouldn't be so close" to Ground Zero.

The 24-year-old Rima Fakih, is the first Muslim winner of the Miss USA contest and is preparing for the Miss Universe Pageant, scheduled for Monday in Las Vegas.

"I totally agree with President Obama with the statement on Constitutional rights of freedom of religion," Fakih told "Inside Edition" in an interview that will air tonight.

"I also agree that it shouldn't be so close to the World Trade Center. We should be more concerned with the tragedy than religion."

Anthony Weiner’s opponent, Bob Turner, on the Ground Zero mosque:

The construction of the Cordoba House mosque at Ground Zero is a perfect example of the lack of true leadership and judgment in our nation today. The events and rhetoric regarding its construction polarizes our city, as salt is being rubbed in the wounds of millions who have been personally affected by the 9/11 tragedy.

A person does not have to know someone who was murdered at the Trade Center on this unforgettable day to understand the tremendous pain and rage that so many people feel about 9/11. For Imam Faisel Abdul Rauf and his supporters to erect a 13 story mosque in the shadow of Ground Zero is not just an act of insensitivity, it is an absolute affront to those who perished that day. There has been no outreach to the families and survivors of this attack prior to the decision to build and their sensitivities have been ignored.

Last week, a journalist who writes for the North Country Times, a small newspaper in Southern California, sent us an e-mail titled "Help." He couldn't understand why an Islamic Centre in an area where Adam Gadahn, Osama bin Laden's American spokesman came from, and that was home to three of the 911 terrorists, was looking to expand.

The man has a very valid point, which leads to the ongoing debate about building a Mosque at Ground Zero in New York. When we try to understand the reasoning behind building a mosque at the epicentre of the worst-ever attack on the U.S., we wonder why its proponents don't build a monument to those who died in the attack?

New York currently boasts at least 30 mosques so it's not as if there is pressing need to find space for worshippers. The fact we Muslims know the idea behind the Ground Zero mosque is meant to be a deliberate provocation to thumb our noses at the infidel. The proposal has been made in bad faith and in Islamic parlance, such an act is referred to as "Fitna," meaning "mischief-making" that is clearly forbidden in the Koran.