« More Naked Moonbats in the Snow | Main | John Edwards: Ann Coulter Is a She-Devil Who Engages in Hateful Language »
August 19, 2007
Tom Burnett Sr. Wants Son Off Profane Flight 93 Memorial
Posted by Dave Blount at August 19, 2007 1:03 PM
Tom Burnett Jr. took part in the passenger uprising that prevented Islamic terrorists from crashing United Flight 93 into the Capitol on 9/11. Yet his father Tom Burnett Sr. has asked that his name not appear on the monument being built ostensibly to honor the heroes who died on that flight.
This is understandable, in light of suspicions that the "Crescent of Embrace" (now called the "Bowl of Embrace") memorial has been designed as an open-air mosque, intended to honor the Muslim hijackers rather than the brave Americans like Burnett who rose up against them — as painstakingly documented by Alec Rawls.
The moonbat-friendly Pittsburgh Post-Gazette turns a grudging acknowledgment of the senior Burnett's objections into a hit piece on Rawls, whose attempts to derail the abomination have laid him open to slander like this:
We basically have a fanatic who has continued to undercut and violate the families and is exploiting their feelings on his own behalf.
To discredit Rawls' observation that the memorial is actually a mihrab, which points Muslims toward their magic meteor in Mecca, the Post-Gazette brings in "geospatial information sciences professor" Daniel Griffith, all the way from UT-Dallas, who astonishingly claims that everything points toward Mecca, because the Earth is round.
This is great news for British taxpayers, who will no longer have to pay to rebuild prison toilets so that they don't face toward Mecca. It will also make it easier for the staff at Club Gitmo, who have been putting arrows indicating "qibla" (the direction toward Mecca) in the rooms of vacationing terrorists.
But the publication of this revelation is bad news for anyone at the Post-Gazzette who expects grownups to take their dhimmified leftist rag seriously.
A downloadable draft of Rawls' Crescent of Betrayal is still available for free.
On a tip from Reid.
