New York Flushing Temple Service
New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn
Ganesh Temple in Flushing, Queens
The mayor condoled the deaths and expressed his sympathy for the Indians in the US. "We should be united against schemes of the terrorists," he said and asked for an international movement to fight the menace.
It was the first time the mayor visited the temple and that too on a very busy Thanksgiving Day
Christine Quinn, the openly gay City Council Speaker
New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn at the prayer service.
In a statement earlier, he said, the 'horrific series of attacks in Mumbai, reminded us that there remain dark forces in the world that think killing innocents is a way to advance an agenda.
