On September 11, 2001, Islamic terrorists killed 3,000 innocent people — most of them at the World Trade Center in New York. Now a pro-terror Imam wants to build a massive mosque at Ground Zero. The mosque is scheduled to open on September 11, 2011. It sounds like a bad joke but it’s not funny. It’s real.

The city of New York is too concerned with political correctness to challenge the outrageous plan. The city’s leadership would rather have a monument to Islam built at the site of an Islamic mass-murder than appear to even the smallest sliver of society to be anti-Muslim.

So the National Republican Trust PAC — a conservative advocacy group — wants to run an advertisement bringing attention to the case. The spot is just one minute long and directly challenges the plan. NBC and CBS have rejected the ad because some Muslims might be offended by apparent ambiguity.

“An ad questioning the wisdom of building a mosque at ground zero would meet our issues of public controversy advertising criteria. However, this ad which ambiguously defines ‘they’ as referenced in the spot makes it unclear as to whether the reference is to terrorists or to the Islamic religious organization that is sponsoring the building of the mosque. Consequently, the ad is not acceptable under our guidelines for broadcast.”

A CBS official, Marty Daly, also rejected the ad, according to emails shared by NRT PAC executive director Scott Wheeler.

First of all, the ad makes it clear that “they” references Islamic extremists. Most of the spot consists of video showing terrorists and other Islamic extremists. Second, why does it matter? Again, the Imam behind the mosque is himself an apologist for Islamic terrorism. Does NBC really care if he and his organization are offended?

Like the city of New York, NBC and CBS are more concerned with being politically correct than helping to make sure the memory of 3,000 murder victims isn’t trampled upon. What a sad state of affairs.