Don’t Take Flight 93 to Mecca 5-8-08

No more do-overs for terrorist memorializing architects

Defenders of the crescent design keep accusing Tom Burnett Sr. of trying to get an improper “do over” after failing back in 2005 to sway the design-competition jury. But who is really seeking the do-over? The American people rose up in protest in 2005 when they saw that the Memorial Project wanted to plant a bare naked Islamic crescent and star flag on the flight 93 crash site:

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That uproar forced the Memorial Project to agree to redesign the memorial so that it would no longer include Islamic symbol shapes (whether they are intentional or not). But nothing significant was changed. Every particle of the original crescent design remains completely intact in the so-called redesign, which only disguised the original crescent with a few irrelevant trees, placed to the rear of a person facing into the giant crescent.

The American people caught a hijacker trying to re-hijack Flight 93, and the Memorial Project told him to go back outside and try again, which is exactly what he did. Now they accuse Tom Burnett of wanting an improper do-over?

There were dozens of articles and television segments about the crescent controversy this week, mostly in Pennsylvania, with some national news coverage by Fox News television and AP. This post is an attempt to capture the general thrust of the new wave of position statements.

The Memorial Project is inverting every moral imperative at this point, and it all comes from their fervent desire to reverse the results of September 2005. Their embrace of the crescent was rejected by America and they are determined to undo that defeat, to the point of being willfully blind to massive evidence of al Qaeda sympathizing intent.

The new face of the Memorial Project: Edward Felt’s wife and brother take the lead

Sandra Felt, one of the Flight 93 family members who helped select the Crescent of Embrace design, admits that she never paid any attention to warnings about Islamic and terrorist memorializing symbolism in the crescent design:

Sandra Felt has known for nearly three years about complaints that the design of the proposed Flight 93 National Memorial allegedly contains Islamic symbols, but she never gave them any credence.

“I don’t even think about it,” said Felt, whose husband, Edward, died on … United Airlines Flight 93.

And nobody blames her. It shouldn’t be on the Flight 93 families to investigate evidence that any one of us can easily fact check. But Sandra and her brother in law Gordon Felt, now President of Families of Flight 93, are going further, pretending for some reason that the charges people have made against architect Paul Murdoch are actually being leveled against them.

How could that be, when three of the features that our petition lists as unacceptable–the Mecca orientation of the giant crescent, the 44 glass blocks on the flight path, and the giant Islamic sundial–were not even discovered until after the crescent design was selected? Nobody blames the family members for approving design features they had no inkling were there, yet Gordon Felt says that warnings about the design are “quite hurtful, to think we would want to create a memorial to those who murdered our loved ones.”

Nobody ever suggested any such thing, but Felt is getting as much mileage as he can out of this excuse NOT to look at the facts, telling Fox News television:

I was outraged, for anyone to infer that family members who have been such an integral part of this process have in any way been involved in memorializing the murderers of our loved ones. I find it extremely offensive.

This after expressing his anger at Tom Burnett last week for Tom’s failure to submit to the Memorial Project’s “democratic process.” Tom lost the jury vote, so in Felt’s view, he is apparently supposed to shut up now. Strange view of democracy.

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4 Responses to “Don’t Take Flight 93 to Mecca 5-8-08”

  1. Christinewjc says:

    It is absolutely astounding to me that some people just shrug their shoulders about this terrible and outrageous travesty! Are people so blinded by PC that they can’t see that such symbolism would celebrate the terrorists rather than the victims?

    I sent out an email to dozens of people. Only one responded back – outraged as I am. I have a person at my blog who contends that I am spreading some dumb “conspiracy” theory about this. However, when evidence was shown to him that it isn’t just “a coincidence” that so many components of the Islamic-themed memorial are unmistakable – I received no response. People are being lulled into complacency about this – as well as about the election. The fact that Barack Hussein Obama will likely be the Democratic nominee is unbelievable to me! He has so many scandals and negatives against him that it is unconscionable to ever imagine him as president!

    Back to the topic.

    For those naysayers who seem to think the controversy over this despicable choice for a memorial isn’t important –

    Take a look at this info from another Digg user who posted it on a previous Digg submission:

    caoilfhionn on 05/07/2008
    The design is for the biggest mosque in North America by a factor of 100. One of the Islamic Scholars they’re using to make excuses for the design is R. Kevin Jaques, from the University of Indiana, who wrote a paper saying our response to 9/11 should be – submit to sharia law. He says the reason we shouldn’t be concerned is that the mihrab -which is what the giant crescent is -when you face into it, you are facing mecca – nobody has seen a mihrab this big before. A mihrab is the central feature of every mosque!

    More proof that the symbolism IS NO ACCIDENT!

    It’s dreadfully appalling!!

    Please see my blogposts:
    Islamic Symbolism in Flight 93 Memorial???

    Crescent of Betrayal Controversy

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  2. I don’t understand how they can continue with this whole thing, even if Tom Burnett Sr. is the only person that feels strongly enough to speak out about it.

    Not everything should be done democratically. If whoever voted on this were a jury, Mr. Burnett would have hung them and forced everyone to look over the evidence once again.

    It’s amazing to me that Sandra Felt can be so ignorant.

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  3. Christinewjc says:

    Charles wrote:

    “Not everything should be done democratically. If whoever voted on this were a jury, Mr. Burnett would have hung them and forced everyone to look over the evidence once again.”

    That’s an excellent point!!

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  4. Big Dog says:

    That is a real good point!