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| "Redesigned" Flight 93 Memorial: Still Islamic |
| 2005-12-01 |
| The redesigned flight 93 memorial, announced today, still contains all of the features that made it a terrorist memorial. Architect Paul Murdoch's infamous red crescent is still there, still planted with red maple trees, still inscribed in the exact same circle as before, and with the same two crescent tips still intact. Thus the crescent bisector defined by these crescent tips is also the same as before. It still points almost exactly to Mecca, making the crescent a Mihrab (an Islamic prayer station, where the believer faces into a crescent, towards Mecca, to perform his ritual prostrations). The design still incorporates a separate upper terrorist-memorial wall, centered precisely on the red-maple crescent. There are still 44 translucent blocks on the flight path to the crash site, matching the total number of dead, instead of just the forty translucent blocks that are dedicated to the forty murdered Americans. Lastly, the Tower of Voices part of the memorial is still an Islamic prayer-time sundial. |
| Posted by:RG |
| #6 Mannlicher-Carcano rifles Always wondered if there was some symbology associated with that weapon, ie., cheap Italian rifle, a mob hit, etc. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2005-12-01 18:54 |
| #5 I'd like to see ed's design come to fruition...in fact, I'll donate money toward it. Who is the muslim calling shots on this design committee? |
| Posted by: milford421 2005-12-01 18:45 |
| #4 If they build that piece of crap with even a hint of Islam in it, I'm pretty certain their design will be "altered" after its completed. If that's what they are wishing for, I suggest they won't be disappointed--Americans have limits as to what they will put up with. |
| Posted by: Crusader 2005-12-01 12:55 |
| #3 I concur. Enough of this crap. The need to expunge all trace of the murderers' symbols is crystal clear. Should we have a billboard for Mannlicher-Carcano rifles erected across from the Eternal Flame in Arlington? After enough of this bull's pizzle I am now also in the camp of having an Iwo Jima style monument showing the heroic passengers engaged in their struggle to avert what could have been a monumental travesty. The loss of life in New York was profound, make no mistake about that. However, if an airliner had been slammed into the Capitol Dome or White House, this would have been a penultimate victory for the terrorists. They, truly, would have stabbed into the heart of America in a most vivid way. That the passengers of Flight 93 prevented this merits them more than some tainted design which is all too easily misconstrued by those who connived against us. Scrap the entire design and start over. Preferrably, with constant input from the families off all those who were aboard Flight 93. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2005-12-01 12:40 |
| #2 time to establish the names of the elected officials stupid enough to sign off on this an make examples out of them. |
| Posted by: 2b 2005-12-01 12:31 |
| #1 Time to kick Paul Murdoch in his dhimmi balls and start over. I recommend a statue of the flight 93 passengers choking the shit out of the hijackers. |
| Posted by: ed 2005-12-01 10:35 |