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November 6, 2007
Tom Tancredo Steps Up on Flight 93 Memorial Abomination
Tom Tancredo has stepped up to the plate regarding the appalling Flight 93 memorial that appears to be a tribute not to the heroes of that flight, but to the Islamic ideology of the terrorist maniacs they went down fighting. From a letter he wrote yesterday to National Park Service Director Mary Bomar (via Error Theory):
I am regrettably writing you in reference to the proposed memorial to commemorate the victims of Flight 93 which crashed in Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001. As you may know, I contacted Director Mainella in late 2005 about my concerns with the design.
The appropriateness of the original design, dubbed the "Crescent of Embrace," was questioned because of the crescent's prominent use as a symbol in Islam — and the fact that the hijackers were radical Islamists. As I pointed out in my September 2005 letter, the use of the crescent has raised questions in some circles about whether the design would make the memorial a tribute to the hijackers […] whose mission the flight's passengers helped to thwart.
When I received Director Mainella's response to my letter on October 6, 2005, I was pleased to read her assurance that the advisory committee and the architect were amenable to "refinements in the design which will include negating any perceptions to the iconography." I was also pleased to learn that the name of the memorial was to be changed.
Unfortunately, it appears that little if any substantive changes to the most troubling aspect of the design — the crescent shape — have been made. This deeply concerns me. As I told Director Mainella in 2005: Regardless of whether or not the invocation of a Muslim symbol by the memorial designer was intentional, I continue to believe that the use of this symbol is unsuitable for paying appropriate tribute to the heroes of Flight 93 or the ensuing American struggle against radical Islam that their historic last act has come to symbolize.
I remain committed to ensuring that this memorial is a powerful symbol for the whole nation and a testament to the courage and will of the passengers of the flight — as I am sure you are. And while I regret having to contact the Park Service again about this issue, I sincerely hope that you will direct the committee to scrap the crescent design entirely in favor of a new design that will not make the memorial a flashpoint for this kind of controversy and criticism.
As Tancredo suggests, it doesn't matter whether the memorial really was intended as a mihrab. The point is it shouldn't look like one. Let's hope his presidential candidacy allows this issue to get the attention it deserves.
Posted by Van Helsing at November 6, 2007 8:33 AM
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Tom Tancredo, the only authentic Conservative in the Presidential race. God Bless him.
Posted by: Refuter of Liberal Vermin at November 6, 2007 11:51 AM
"I remain committed to ensuring that this memorial is a powerful symbol for the whole nation and a testament to the courage and will of the passengers of the flight — as I am sure you are."
Sorry, Sen. Tancredo, but I wouldn't be so sure. Doubtless the NPS is being run by just as PC-subservient weenies and Islamofascist butt-kissers as most of the other federal agencies these days (State, ICE, DHS, etc.), hence the utter lack of substantive change in the design since the Senator's earlier letter to the NPS of 2005.
In the first part of the sentence, however, Sen. Tancredo is "right on."
I also note that the NPS Director was agreeable in '05 to "refinements in the design which will include negating any perceptions to the iconography." Once again, Senator, I take that to mean the NPS was willing to "tweak" the design, but had absolutely ZERO intention of scrapping the whole abortion as currently constituted and starting afresh (with something that would actually honor the passengers of Flight 93).
God help this nation if these Moonbats manage to get this piece of Islamic shit built on that holy ground -- We're doomed . . .
Posted by: jc14 at November 6, 2007 5:39 PM
