Bob McCarty Writes

Just over 13 months ago, I published my first post about the controversy surrounding the Flight 93 Memorial.  On Nov. 21, 2007, I published an update on the project purported to honor the passengers who gave their own lives to prevent Islamic terrorists from flying a passenger aircraft into the nation’s capitol.  Today, thanks to Debbie at Right Truth, I became aware of a new video, It Points to Mecca (below) which makes the strongest case yet for the argument that the National Park Service’s Flight 93 Memorial Project actually does more to honor Islamic terrorists than it does to memorialize American heroes about United Flight 93.

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Posted on YouTube yesterday, the video begins with an appeal to the American people by Tom Burnett Sr., a man who lost his son, Tom Burnett Jr., in the crash near Shanksville, Pa.

Burnett Sr. implores people to help him in his effort to stop the NPS from planting a giant Islamic-shaped crescent atop his son’s grave.

The half-mile wide crescent, originally named the “Crescent of Embrace,” points almost exactly to Mecca. That makes it a “mihrab,” a niche or chamber in a mosque indicating the direction of Mecca.  Some mihrabs are shaped like a pointed arch, but the most-often-seen mihrab is shaped like a crescent.

A second typical mosque feature is the 93-foot-tall Tower of Voices which, Burnett notes, looks like a minaret and has a crescent on top. These and a host of other Islamist- and terrorist-memorializing features remain completely intact in the so-called redesign.

The design is called the “Circle of Embrace” now.  According to the NPS Flight 93 Memorial Project website, however, the circle is still broken and in the exact same places as before. The unbroken part of the circle, what symbolically remains standing in the wake of 9/11, is still a giant Islamic-shaped crescent, still pointing to Mecca.

If, after watching the video, you find yourself appalled by the current design of the Flight 93 Memorial Project, share this post with everyone you know — including your members of Congresss — and encourage them to do the same.  As you share it, include a message that the current memorial needs to be scrapped in favor of one that pays tribute ONLY to the American heroes aboard United Flight 93.

Thanks in advance for your support of this worth effort.