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April 09, 2008
Call for Congressional Investigation of Islamic Symbolism in the Flight 93 Memorial
Many features of the chosen Flight 93 Memorial design are intolerable:
1. THE GIANT CRESCENT. The centerpiece of the original “Crescent of Embrace” design was a giant red Islamic shaped crescent. Every particle of this original crescent design remains completely intact in the so-called redesign, which only added a few irrelevant trees. The giant crescent is still there.
2. IT POINTS TO MECCA. The giant crescent points to 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 Flight 93 Memorial is on track to become the world's largest mosque.
3. THE ISLAMIC SUNDIAL. The minaret-like Tower of Voices is a year-round accurate Islamic prayer-time sundial (one of many typical mosque features that are realized in the crescent design, all on the same epic scale as the half mile wide central crescent).
4. THE 44 BLOCKS. There are 44 glass blocks on the flight path, equaling the number of passengers, crew, AND terrorists.
Intentional or not, these features are entirely unacceptable. This travesty must stop and investigations must begin.
There is a Petition:
Online petition: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/HonorFlight93/
Sponsor of Petition:
Tom Burnett Sr. (father of Tom Burnett Jr., murdered on Flight 93)
Other sponsors of the Petition:
Alec Rawls
Bill Steiner
Lt Col. Harry Beam U.S. Army Ret.
Fran Bevan
From Tom Burnett Sr:
Dear Fellow Americans:
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.
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. If you want to do more, feel free to forward or post this appeal.
For those who are not familiar, the original “Crescent of Embrace” design was laid out in the crescent and star configuration of an Islamic flag:
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 giant crescent and star flag is still there!
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. Worst of all, the Memorial Project refuses to confront voluminous evidence that the Islamic symbolism IS intentional.
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!
When TWO airplanes fly into the World Trade Center, even the most naïve person has start taking the possibility of intent seriously, but not the Memorial Project. The Islamic symbolism in Flight 93 Memorial goes on and on, but the Park Service refuses to be concerned.
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. (That’s right: the crash site is the star on the crescent and star flag.)
Along the flight path are to be placed 44 translucent blocks, equaling the number of passengers, crew, AND terrorist
Left image: The Memorial Wall, traces flight path just above the point of impact. The white line at eye level is a set of 43 glass blocks, 40 to be inscribed with the names of my son and the other passengers and crew, and three (on the near side of the gap) to be inscribed with 9/11 date. Right image: At the upper crescent tip, at the end of the Entry Portal Walkway, sits a huge glass block, the 44th glass block on the flight path. It marks the spot where, in the architect’s description, the terrorists broke our humanitarian circle, turning it into a giant (Islamic shaped) crescent. Inscription: “A field of honor forever.”
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.
We need to get the word out: the Flight 93 Memorial has been re-hijacked, and this time the whole nation is aboard. We have to get up out of our seats and stop this abomination!
Sincerely,
Tom Burnett Sr.
Northfield Minnesota, March 2008
Online petition: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/HonorFlight93/
Wild Thing's comment........
The terrorists had years to plan. The passengers; mere minutes. The terrorists presumed all the weak Americans aboard the various flights they hijacked could be cowed with box cutters and fake bombs. When those cowards targeted United Flight 93 their presumption didn't serve them well. They tangled with the wrong bunch of Americans.
We will never forget the heroism, of Todd Beamer, of Jeremy Glick, Mark Bingham, and Tom Burnett, and of flight attendants CeeCee Lyles and Sandy Bradshaw.
"The first American flag flown by the patriots of the early Revolutionary War was not the Stars and Stripes but a banner showing a coiled snake, with the inscription DON'T TREAD ON ME. America's latest war for freedom did not begin with a speech by George W. Bush or a cruise-missile attack on a terrorist-training camp in Afghanistan. It began with a group of citizen soldiers on Flight 93 who rose up, like their forefathers, to defy tyranny. And when they came storming down the aisle, it wasn't the Americans who were afraid."
9:03
United Airlines Flight 175 crashes into the South Tower of the WTC. United warns pilots to "Beware cockpit intrusion." One of the two pilots simply typed, "Confirmed."
9:27
United Flight 93 checks in with Cleveland flight control with a jaunty, "Good Morning."
9:28
Cleveland control hears screams and scuffling over the radio channel. Asks if somebody called and gets no answer. One minute later, a controller hears a pilot yelling, "Get out of here! Get out of here."
9:30
Passengers are herded to the back of the plane. One terrorist, with a red box strapped around him, guards them. They immediately start phoning loved ones and discussing amongst themselves what to do. Who are these "weak and impudent" American infidels?
Jeremy Glick, a 6-foot-1 220-pound NCAA Judo champion.
Tom Burnett, a take-charge kind of guy who was a college quarterback.
Todd Beamer, a college point guard known as a "gamer," the team member who makes the winning play.
Mark Bingham, 6 feet 5, had played rugby on a championship team at Cal (once arrested for tackling the Stanford mascot at a football game!) Lou Nacke, 5 feet 3 and 200 pounds, was a weightlifter with a superman tattoo on his shoulder.
Rich Guadagno, trained in hand to hand combat.
William Cashman a former iron worker and paratrooper with the 101st Airborne.
Alan Beaven, 6 feet 3, a rock climber and former Scotland Yard prosecutor
Flight attendant CeeCee Lyles had been a detective with the Ft. Pierce, Florida police force.
Linda Gronlund, a lawyer, had a brown belt in karate.
Lauren Grandcolas had organized a skydiving expedition. On her fridge she had a note, GET BUSY LIVING OR GET BUSY DYING.
There was even a pilot among them:Don Greene, who, with the right instructions from ground control might have been able to land the Boeing 757.
9:36
United Flight 93 makes a hairpin turn west of Cleveland and heads southeast toward, D.C.
Deena Burnett was preparing breakfast for her three girls in San Ramon, CA when the phone rang. It was Tom. He told her they were being hijacked and told her to call the authorities. Deena called the FBI. She was on the phone with them when her call waiting beeped. This time Tom told her the hijackers were in the cockpit. Deena told Tom about the World Trade Center.
Jeremy Glick called his wife Lyz. He described "three Iranian-looking men" wearing red headbands and said they had a bomb. Lyz panicked for a moment when she heard the word 'bomb." For several minutes husband and wife said "I love you" over and over. Jeremy asked Lyz if it was true, as other passengers were saying, that the WTC had been attacked. Lyz told him about it. Lyz asked Jeremy if the hijackers had machine guns. "No machine guns, just knives."
Todd Beamer's call, at 9:45, was routed from an Airfone to operator Lisa Jefferson at GTE's Customer Center in Oakbrook, Illinois. Lisa and Todd were all business until the plan lurched and bobbed (some speculate the terrorists, knowing the passengers were up to something, were attempting to knock them off their feet and frighten them). For a moment his composure cracked, "Jesus we're going down." Then he steadied. "We're coming back up." "Lisa," he said suddenly. "Yes?" responded Jefferson. "That's my wife," said Beamer . "Well, that's my name, too, Todd." "Oh, my God. [pause] I don't think we're going to get out of this thing. I'm going to have to go out on faith." Jefferson tried to comfort him. Todd made Jefferson promise to call his wife if he didn't make it home. He told her about his little boys and the new baby on the way. Then he said the passengers were going to try to jump the hijackers. "Are you sure that's what you want to do, Todd?" "It's what we have to do." He asked her to pray with him.
Sandy Bradshaw's husband, Phil, could hear a group of men reciting the 23rd Psalm in the background. "Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil." Sandy told Phil, the flight attendants were filling pots with hot water to throw on the hijackers. "It's time to go now, we're running up to first class."
CeeCee Lyles was telling her husband, Lorne about the situation. They were saying their good-byes when suddenly Lorne heard screaming, and CeeCee yelled, "They're doing it! They're doing it!"
Tom Burnett called Deena for a fourth time. "We're going to do something," said Tom. Deena pleaded with him to sit down and not draw attention to himself. "If they are going to run this plane into the ground, we're going to do something." Deena told him she loved him and asked what else she should do. "Just pray, Deena, pray." He hung up.
Todd Beamer and Lisa Jefferson prayed the Lord's Prayer. "Jesus help me!" he said, then Jefferson heard him recite the 23rd Psalm and say, "Are you guys ready? Let's roll."
"Beginning at 9:57 the cockpit voice recorder began to pick up the sounds of a death struggle. There is the crash of galley dishes and trays being hurled, a man's voice screaming loudly. The hijackers can be heard calling on each other to hold the door. One of the passengers cries out, "Let's get them!" More crashing and screaming. In a desperate measure to control the rebellion, a hijacker suggests cutting off the oxygen. Another one tells his confederates to "take it easy." The end is near. The hijackers can be heard talking about finishing off the plane, which has begun to dive. The hijackers cry out, "God is great!" The cockpit voice recorder picks up shouting by one of the male passengers. It is unclear whether the passengers have breached the cockpit or are just outside the door. Eyewitnesses on the ground in Somerset County, PA, saw the plane rocking from side to side as it plunged to earth. United Flight 93 was about 20 minutes from the Whitehouse when it crashed.
On September 15, Lisa Beamer and Lisa Jefferson had a tearful conversation. Jefferson told Beamer that her husband had been calm and matter-of-fact. Lisa Beamer was relieved; she had not wanted her husband to die in terror. Actually, Todd had been afraid. They all had been deathly afraid. More than once, he cried out for his Savior. But Beamer, like so many other passengers and crew aboard United Flight 93, overcame his fear. They did not wait to die. They went out fighting and by doing so they may have saved countless others and spared the Whitehouse from death and destruction. And the fifty foot crater United Flight 93 left in that PA hillside was the first strike of our new war on global terrorism.
Lisa Beamer found this Teddy Roosevelt quotation on a piece of paper at the bottom of the in-box on Todd's den office:
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena . . . who strives valiantly, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in worthy causes.
When you go to the site for the Petition there are also many articles listed on the left side of the site that you can also read more about this.
There is something very sick happening in our country when this kind of thing would even be thought of and to see it actually being considered and happening is disgusting beyond words.
Islam followers attacked us, killed Americans and we are to allow a Memorial that favors there DAMN cult, the death cult of Islam???????????
We are so screwed!
....Thank you RAC so much for sending this to me!
Posted by Wild Thing at April 9, 2008 12:55 PM
Comments
Those glass blocks for the terrorists are going to be removed and replaced with quickset ... by someone.
Posted by: Kristopher at April 9, 2008 01:36 PM
Something is badly wrong in America. We have the valorous, like those crew and passengers on Flight 93. We also have the looney, cowardly, weak, indecisive like those who approve of this ridiculous memorial design. And, those with the same failings who have let a hole exist at Ground Zero in NYC instead of rebuilding the World Trade Center.
The poor quality of the three presidential candidates tells me these situations will not be rectified soon. We are still going to be saddled with a lack of strong leadership at the top.
America is going to have to rely on leadership from the bottom up, like the leadership on Flight 93 and the leadership in the American Revolution.
Posted by: TomR at April 9, 2008 02:23 PM
This is a BIG slap in the face to the families of those who died on Flight 93.
This PC crap is going to have to go OUT the window.
I don't care if you think I'm not PC, because I'm not. I calls 'em as I sees 'em.
They could have done much better.
Why are we just lying down and taking the beating from those Islamic facists who would have us dead?
I'm 'bout ready to start smacking faces.
Posted by: Lynn at April 9, 2008 04:33 PM
What the hell is wrong with the people of Pennsylvania who once produced some of our greatest heroes and leaders? Pennsylvania gave us great people like:
Benjamin Franklin
James Buchanan
Winfield Scott Hancock
Major General Smedley Butler
General of the Army George C. Marshall
Daniel Boone
Instead we now get people like Murtha. Furthermore what is wrong with the rest of the nation that will honor those butchering murderers like the mohammedan terrorists of 9-11-01 by erecting such an obvious Islamic symbol? Is Pennsylvania a new caliphate? We have a festering national cesspool along the Potomac and an international one along the East River. The sacrifices and memory of the Amercans on flight 93 are tarnished by the blatant insult to them and this country.
Posted by: Jack at April 9, 2008 04:35 PM
Jack, if Obama wins Pennsylvania you may have a point about the Caliphate.
I don't know how much the people of Pennsylvania have to do with the monument construction, but if it got out that this is what is happening I am sure there would be an uproar.
You mentioned Winfield Scott Hancock, ironically he had a twin brother Hilary Baker Hancock. So maybe we are doomed.
I sure hope not for Pennsylvania's sake.
Posted by: Mark at April 9, 2008 07:58 PM
The invasion of the United States by Islamists and the spreading of the Caliphate is moving full speed ahead. The National Park Service is the prime driver of what is still a Crescent of Embrace oriented to Mecca as the Flight 93 Memorial.
Some more background how devious and arrogant this effort is.
memorial honors the islamic murderers (don't miss this graphic proof)
http://www.crescentofbetrayal.com/proof.htm
FLIGHT 93, RE-HIJACKED (Mark Steyn commentary)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1483702/posts
Just so everyone is clear on what is happening.
Muslims declare sovereignty over U.S., UK
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=56503
Islamic Minnesota Charter School is Sponsored by Al-Qaeda/HAMAS Charity
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/2008/04/islamic_minneso.html
Posted by: Les at April 9, 2008 08:55 PM
This is SICK! Would the USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor have a RISING SUN design? Would the US Normandy Cemetery in France have a Nazi Swastika design? This is SICK and IN YOUR INFIDEL FACE bullshiite !!! "WE THE PEOPLE want some *ss and we want it NOW!!!!
Posted by: darthcrUSAderworldtour07 at April 10, 2008 12:24 AM
Kristopher, thanks, I sure hope they get rid of all of this and the idea.
Posted by: Wild Thing at April 10, 2008 01:02 AM
Tom, I think so too, I wish I knew what I could do to help make things different.
Posted by: Wild Thing at April 10, 2008 01:05 AM
Lynn, I agree so much. I am about to burst!
Posted by: Wild Thing at April 10, 2008 01:09 AM
Jack, what really upsets me is when this was presented as an idea, where was the outrage. I mwean if someone was presenting this to me as an idea, I would be so angry. I would fire the person that came up with the idea not just say no way.
If this happened back after Pearl Harbor? OH my gosh all of the USA would be furious.
Posted by: Wild Thing at April 10, 2008 01:13 AM
Mark, I am not sure, it would only be a guess, but I would think they would know in Pennsylvania. I would want it in all the papers. I have seen this before about this last year I think, but I thought they had given up on it. Now I see they are still wanting to do this. sheesh
Posted by: Wild Thing at April 10, 2008 01:15 AM
Les, thank you so much for putting those links here. It just makes me so sick, so totally sick to my stomach.
Posted by: Wild Thing at April 10, 2008 01:16 AM
Darth, exactly!!!! This would never have happened back then, NO way. ALL of America would be outraged.
Posted by: Wild Thing at April 10, 2008 01:18 AM
~AA11~ >>>>> North Tower @ 08:46 on 9-11-01
~UF175~ >>>> South Tower @ 09:03 on 9-11-01
~AA77~ >>>> Pentagon @ 09:35 on 9-11-01
~UF93~ SAVED the US CAPITOL on 9-11-01
Impact Shanksville Pennsylvania @ 10:10
19 evil Islamofascist terrorists butchered the flight crews and passengers, and murdered 2,996 innocent Americans and foreigners (120) in three hours and in three states... during Operation Holy Tuesday and in the name of Allah Ackbar!
Posted by: drstrangeloveb52isok at April 10, 2008 02:24 AM
drstrangeloveb52isok, thanks and your right. The heros on the flight saved the US Capitol.
Posted by: Wild Thing at April 10, 2008 02:40 AM
"This is why we preserved the UNION at Gettysburg from July 1 - July 4, 1863?" - Union General George G. Meade (Located to the east of Shanksville Pennsylvania / ~UF93~)
"This is why we fought for our independence and froze our *sses off..." - Continental Army General George Washington, December 1776 at Valley Forge... Located to the east of ~UF93~ !
WELCOME TO THE KEYSTONE, ER CALIPHATE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA?
Posted by: 2bornot2b? at April 10, 2008 03:49 AM
well it is like anything else, the people in Pennsylvania don't have a lot to say about what is going on.
sort of like the immigration fiasco The American People know all about it but can do little. Whoever, wins in November is going to grant amnesty and there won't be thing one we can do about it.
Posted by: Mark at April 10, 2008 12:00 PM
