Flight 93 memorial: blogburst for 7/23/08

This week, Alec Rawls of Error Theory focuses on some of the most annoying aspects among all the offensive memorial plan features. If you’re one of those people who’s not convinced, who thinks that we’re just making a mountain of a molehill, then you need to view the design features Alec details in today’s blogburst installment. These aspects of the design convinced me a while back that the disturbing Islamic imagery and character of the memorial plan could not have been fortuitously accomplished. I will not elaborate because Alec’s fair presentation throughout the series needs no clarification or amplification. See for yourself.

Far as I’m concerned, proof positive of Islamist sympathies on the part of the project’s supporters is their incessant need to explain things to us, as Islam itself is continually explicated for us ignorant unbelievers. Like Islam and Islamic terrorism, the memorial design provides us with so many unfortunate misconceptions and silly misunderstandings, don’t you know. We poor dimwitted dullards require education and illumination, both in Islam and in art. We’re just letting our prejudices cloud our understanding and appreciation of culture, of beauty, of the sacred. But fear not. Our intellectual and moral superiors will clear the air for us.

As for the design’s much-trumpeted aesthetic achievements, blow on this: Great art does not require a user manual. Crescent of Embrace, Circle of Embrace, Tower of Voices, Sacred Ground—this crap is simply unctuous and unimaginatively contrived with all the iconic hallmarks of New Age, multicultural, Islam-is-peace, diversity training hooey. It’s as repulsive aesthetically as it is conceptually.

Anyway, architect Paul Murdoch and his supporters missed a page in the manual. I remain unconvinced that Islam is peace.

So I’m certainly not yet ready to buy that Islamic jihad can be translated into peace and understanding.

9/11 date to be placed as star on crescent and star flag

Not all of us can make it to Pennsylvania next week to help Tom Burnett Sr. stop the re-hijacking of Flight 93, but if anyone needs another reason to try . . .

The crescent memorial to Flight 93 will have the 9/11 date inscribed on a separate section of Memorial Wall that is centered on the bisector of the giant crescent, in the exact position of the star on an Islamic crescent and star flag.

Check it out. As can be seen on our blogburst logo, there will be a copse of trees that sits roughly between the tips of the giant crescent (roughly in the position of the star on a crescent and star flag). That is the Sacred Ground Plaza, which sits just above the crash site. Inside the Sacred Ground Plaza is a two-part Memorial Wall that follows the flight path down to the point of impact:

Elevation view of Memorial Wall. (Click picture for larger image. Source document here.)

The lower section of Memorial Wall (on the left) contains forty “translucent marble” blocks, inscribed with the names of the 40 murdered heroes (including Tom Burnett Jr.)

Next there is a gap marked “trail,” then the separate upper section of Memorial Wall has three more translucent blocks, inscribed with the 9/11 date. (There is one more translucent block on the flight path: the huge glass block that dedicates the entire site. It sits at the upper crescent tip, at the end of the Entry Portal Walkway. That brings the glass block count to 44, equaling the number of passengers, crew, AND terrorists.)

The path that divides the wall into two parts can be seen on the Crescent of Embrace site plan:

Purple: the path that divides the Memorial Wall into separate upper and lower sections. Aqua: the separate upper section of Memorial Wall, inscribed with the 9/11 date. Red arrow: the centerline of the giant crescent (points to Mecca).

Just by looking, you can see that the upper section of the Memorial Wall is centered on the bisector of the giant crescent, placing it in the exact position of the star on an Islamic crescent and star flag. (Click picture for larger image.)

The date goes to the star on the Islamic flag. The date goes to the terrorists.

Just one of many Islamic and terrorist-memorializing features in the planned memorial, and all of it remains completely intact in the Circle of Embrace redesign, which only disguises the giant crescent with a few irrelevant trees.

August 2nd

At about 1PM (when the Memorial Project meeting lets out) Mr. Burnett and Alec Rawls will host a press conference and a rally outside the Somerset County Courthouse, where the meeting will be held.

Saturday evening we will have dinner someplace that can be flexible about our numbers (probably a big buffet-style restaurant). Sunday morning we will visit the crash site. (Alec is making arrangements with the Park Service now, in case we get a large turn out.)

The only reason to try to make it to the meeting itself (10AM-1PM) is if you want to sign up to speak during the public comment period at the end. Otherwise the meetings are pretty dreary.

The larger purpose is to make a statement to the national news outfits that Mr. Burnett’s presence will likely bring. (Fox News gave Mr. Burnett some nice coverage a couple months ago.) A substantial rally—hard as it will be to achieve out in the hinterlands of Pennsylvania—would help the cause.

For many of us, Somerset is a long way to go to make a statement, but the crash site is well worth visiting in its own right. If you’ve been thinking about making the trip, the weekend of August 2nd would be the time. It is a chance not just to pay a visit, but to honor in some small way the heroes of Flight 93 by following their footsteps and tackling our own hijacker.

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