Memorials were held Saturday to mark the ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Here in New York, Mayor Mike Bloomberg spoke at Ground Zero.

Mike Bloomberg: “We have returned to this sacred site to join our hearts together with the names of those we loved and lost. No other public tragedy has cut our city so deeply. No other place is as filled with our compassion, our love and our solidarity. It is with the strength of these emotions, as well as the concrete, glass and steel that is brought in day by day, that we will build on the footprints of the past the foundation of the future. At this time, please join us and all New Yorkers in a moment of silence.”

The weekend was also filled with protests in support and against a proposed Islamic cultural center in Lower Manhattan. Participants in the anti-mosque protest include members of the far-right wing British organization English Defense League and the right-wing Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders who opposes Muslim immigration to Europe.