Petition To Remove Islamic Symbols From Flight 93 Memorial
Unbelievable…
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A group of concerned citizens has been raising alarms about the Islamic elements planned for the Flight 93 Memorial near Shanksville, Pa., for years. And a member of Congress has demanded the National Park Service make changes in its plans.
But there’s been no substantive response, and now the activists say it’s time for the American people to let officials know whether they want to pay for a memorial with a crescent that points to Mecca. The opponents say the configuration comprises a “mihrab,” the foundational point for every Islamic mosque. It also includes a tower designed like an Islamic sundial and 44 memorial glass blocks, one each for the passengers, crew and terrorists aboard Flight 93.
The new petition, promoted both online and on paper, tells the government simply to investigate the design of the memorial, which is to honor the passengers and crew members of Flight 93 who perished Sept. 11, 2001.
Authorities believe the hijackers may have planned to hit the White House or the U.S. Capitol. Three other flights hijacked that day by Islamic terrorists hit the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington, killing just under 3,000 people.
The fourth jet, Flight 93, hurtled into the ground in Pennsylvania that morning, hitting at more than 560 miles per hour and creating a 115-foot wide crater. Authorities say the fuselage was driven 23 feet into the ground.
The federal 9/11 commission found while the passengers probably did not succeed in breaking into the cockpit, the hijackers crashed the plan before reaching their goal.
The stories of the passengers’ heroism have circled the globe. A British newspaper recounted recently how Tom Burnett Jr., the father of three young daughters, told his wife Deena from an onboard telephone that he and other passengers were “going to do something.”
“Another passenger, Todd Beamer, revealed in a telephone call that passengers were planning a counter-attack. His last words, ‘Are you guys ready? Let’s roll,” would become a battle cry for Americans fighting the Taliban and al-Qaida in Afghanistan. Even President George Bush has taken to using it in his speeches,” the UK report said.
Tom Burnett Sr., who has actively opposed the Islamic symbolism and has warned the National Park Service not to use his son’s name in the memorial, told the reporter, “We ought to just throw the design out and start anew because it really dishonors those who died.”
“The planned Flight 93 Memorial contains extensive Islamic symbolism. It is an insult to my son Tom, and to the other murdered heroes of Flight 93 who stopped Islamic terrorists from destroying the White House or the Capitol that terrible September day,” he wrote.
“Please consider signing this online petition that I and some compatriots have put together. It calls for a new memorial design, and for investigation of the present design,” he said.
“For those who are not familiar, the original ‘Crescent of Embrace’ design was laid out in the crescent and star formation of an Islamic flag,” he said. “Outrage over this overt Islamic symbolism forced the Memorial Project to disguise the original crescent with a few additional trees, but every particle of the original design remains completely intact in the so-called redesign.”
“The Memorial Project assumes that any similarity to an Islamic crescent has to be unintentional. Even if it WERE unintentional it would still be intolerable, but how can anyone look at that crescent and star configuration and think that it CAN’T be intentional? That is like seeing an airliner fly into the World Trade Center and thinking that it CAN’T be intentional,” he continued.
“It turns out that a person facing into the giant crescent will be facing Mecca. A crescent that Muslims face into to face Mecca is called a “mihrab” and is the central feature around which every mosque is built. The crescent memorial will be the world’s largest mosque!” he said.
“Architect Paul Murdoch says that the crescent shape comes from the hijacked airplane breaking the circle where it crosses the upper crescent tip. The flight path then continues down to between the crescent tips where Flight 93 crashed,” Burnett said. “I don’t want to celebrate the terrorist’s circle-breaking crescent-creating feat, and I certainly don’t want my son’s name inscribed on that terrorist memorializing block count.”
The petition issues a call to state and federal lawmakers to investigate the design, and then replace it with a new design “not tainted by Islamic or terrorist memorializing symbolism.”
“We demand a fitting and proper memorial that HONORS the brave men and women of Flight 93,” the petition said.
The petition is being run online, but provisions also have been made to allow people to print out a copy and collect signatures in person. The signatures all will be assembled by the end of April to be delivered during the May 3 public meeting of the Memorial in nearby Somerset, Pa., as well as members of Congress and the Pennsylvania state legislature, organizers said.
Blogger Alex Rawls, who has been active in opposing the Islamic symbols and earlier wrote a book called “Crescent of Betrayal: Dishonoring the Heroes of Flight 93,” has documented a long list of Islamic and terrorist memorializing features in the Flight 93 National Memorial.
He also paid for a recent newspaper ad that said the Park Service is whitewashing the problems.
“The Mecca orientation of the giant crescent should have long ago been headline news across the nation, and it would have been, if not for the extraordinary measures taken by the Memorial Project and the Park Service to cover up this explosive information. Project Superintendent Joanne Hanley denies the Mecca orientation of the crescent in public: ‘The only thing that orients the memorial is the crash site,’ she told the Post Gazette,’” according to Rawls.
“It has to be exact,” Hanley told me in an April 2006 conference call, explaining why she was not concerned about the almost-exact Mecca orientation of the crescent.
Rawls also was critical of experts on which the Park Service was basing its denial.
Two academics “admit the giant Mecca oriented crescent and make the most ridiculous excuses for it. Kevin Jaques, a professor of Islamic sharia law at Indiana University, notes the similarity between the Mecca oriented crescent and a traditional mihrab, but assures the Park Service that there is no need for concern, because no one has ever seen a mihrab this BIG before,” Rawls said.
“The other [expert] is a Syrian professor of Islamic architecture named Nasser Rabbat who tells the park service not to worry about the almost exact Mecca orientation of the giant crescent because it cannot serve as a proper mihrab unless it points exactly to Mecca,” Rawls said.
But Rawls, whose documentation is posted online, said many traditional mihrabs are off in the Mecca-orientation by up to 30 degrees.
He said just as bad is the proposed 93-foot-tall tower that he described as representing an Islamic minaret.
It was U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., who has asked the Park Service to revamp a proposed memorial to the heroics of Flight 93 passengers and crew.
He said using it is “unsuitable” to use an Islamic symbol as a way to honor the Flight 93 heroes “or the ensuing American struggle against radical Islam that their historic last act has come to symbolize.”
A Pennsylvania pastor also has fought the design.
“This is a memorial to the terrorists who killed those people, not a memorial to the folks who died there innocently,” said Rev. Ron McRae, head of the Bible Anabaptist Church near Jerome, Pa., about 55 miles from Pittsburgh.
(World Net Daily)
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You have fuckin’-A got to be shitting me…
April 8th, 2008 at 1:06 pmThe only way anything Islamic can be involved in that memorial is a reminder of whodunnit.
April 8th, 2008 at 1:11 pmOh my God, this is just sad… omg. I can’t even find the words to express how angry I feel.
April 8th, 2008 at 1:11 pmEXACTLY as how EVERY Islamic extremest group WILL exploit it! Are these people fucking goofy?
Signed it and Passed it along to everyone I know.
This in no way shape or form will be viewed by them in ANY other way BUT a memorial to the terrorists.
April 8th, 2008 at 1:17 pmwho the fuck designed that vile thing?!
that person should be raked through the coals and investigated for terrorist ties.
at the least it’s a tasteless accident. at the worst its a memorial FOR the terrorists and the “brave acts of jihad against america”
screw getting it banned, lets prosecute the guy who desinged it in a military tribunal!!!
i’ll pay for the bullet!
April 8th, 2008 at 1:28 pmThis is sickening! they should put upside down crosses in the ground with each terrorists name on it across from the memorial to remind visitors of the evil that came to this country on the morning of September 11, 2001
April 8th, 2008 at 1:30 pmYunz guys,
I’ve known about this for a few years now … There HAS been a big stink behind the “scenes” … AKA, the MSM did NOT cover it … about this.
Question:
Besides the bastard hijacking murderers, where there ANY Muslims onboard (crew or passengers) Flt. 93 on 9-11-01?
Answer:
No.
April 8th, 2008 at 1:38 pmI was handed a flier about this about 6 weeks ago when in Washington DC in the shaddow of the Washington Mnmt. with the Gathering of Eagles. I thought this was a joke, but this is NOT.
April 8th, 2008 at 1:54 pmI read about this on the web a year ago.
I cannot possibly accept that all these symbols of Islamic theology ACCIDENTALLY came up with the wash!
Who the fuck is behind this moronic scheme?!
April 8th, 2008 at 1:56 pmWhy not get it over with Murdoch (architect) and put a star right in the middle like the pentogram that represents satanism and its terror-loving followers?
April 8th, 2008 at 2:07 pmWhen you are dead we’ll bury you in an ajacent field with a giant 60’s peace sign tribute to your moral relativism.
Clearly this is the work of the Democratic Party. This has the smell of Reid, Durbin, Murtha and Pelosi.
THIS IS UNBELIEVABLY TASTELESS. OBAMA
April 8th, 2008 at 2:14 pmThe National Park Service website has pictures of the design at: http://www.nps.gov/flni/parkmgmt/the-memorial-design.htm
…Denials of any Islamic symbolism: http://www.nps.gov/flni/parkmgmt/designquestions.htm
…And a letter to Tom Tancredo from “Families of Flight 93″ regarding his opposition to the design: http://www.nps.gov/flni/parkmgmt/upload/tomtancredo.pdf
Personally, the design looks to me to be a crescent and should be completely pulled from the design. Any resemblence to any symbolism, by design or accident, of the religion of terrorists must be eliminated if the memorial is to truly honor those brave souls who lost their lives.
I have therefore signed the petition and forwarded it on to those I know.
April 8th, 2008 at 2:33 pmIt is beyond disgusting that a symbol like that would even be considered. It is insulting to say the least. Whoever came up with that design needs to be deported to an Islamic country and stay there the rest of their lives. They are obviously not interested in honoring the brave and innocent people aboard Flight 93 that died. They are only interested in further marking their turf in the U.S.A. with their Tag of Terror. For the victims families to have to endure the possiblity of the current design is horrific to even consider it.
WTF??!!!!!!!!
April 8th, 2008 at 2:50 pmYou have got to be kidding. If it gets put there I will personally go and defile it.
April 8th, 2008 at 6:35 pmLike several others, I saw this quite awhile ago…I think on Michelle Malkins blog over a year ago. Back then I was infuriated, but after reading through everything it seemed like the people who were calling attention to this travesty had it under control. It appeared like they were going to get this POS homage to Islam, canned for good.
Now I see that hasn’t come to fruition yet.
All I can say is, despite having a large amount of self control / self discipline, and being able to utilize those tools in practice to show restraint, I WILL burn this f**king thing to the ground if it goes up with ANY reference to The Religion Of Piss.
April 8th, 2008 at 6:57 pmthis is jsut wrong, and I am signing the petition.
April 8th, 2008 at 7:03 pmFUCK THE TERRORISTS (ISLAM) and their enablers (DEMOCRATS/LIBERALS). This shit is beyond comprehension and by GOD if AMERICAN TAXPAYER DOLLARS ARE INVOLVED, IT BETTER BE SHIT CANNED AND REDONE AS THE AMERICAN FLAG. THAT IS THE ONLY ACCEPTABLE ALTERNATIVE TO THIS ISLAM LOVING BULLSHIT. The parks department better pull their fucking head out and get a FUCKING CLUE. LETS ROLL needs to be inscribed on the tallest MARKER ALONG WITH THE AMERICAN FLAG. Even better would be a map of the countries of the MURDERING SCUM with an mushroom cloud hovering over it.
April 8th, 2008 at 7:20 pmHow in the hell did that crap get there? These “peace-loving” ass-hats have done it to us again. Those stupid libs need to get thier heads and asses rewired and wired right. How could the parks dept allow this disgrace to go on this monmument? I have no friggin idea, but they need to stop hugging the terrorists and the trees. Everyone of those traitors need to be on the breadlines ASAFP!!!! ….and the asshat who designed this disgrace should be tried,sentenced and punished accordingly. That is blatant treason, IMHO. Shoot the bastard
April 8th, 2008 at 11:25 pmI feel sick to my stomach.. this just angers me.
May 13th, 2008 at 3:56 pm