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.
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.
5 responses so far ↓
1 Debbie // Nov 13, 2008 at 3:41 pm
Thanks for spreading the information. It seems that interest in this has really dropped off with the election season and the economic woes. I still feel it is very important.
It’s the principle. If we let this slide, what happens when the next challenge comes along?
2 hotoffthepress2 // Nov 13, 2008 at 3:42 pm
Glad to help, Debbie!
3 Paul W in Manila // May 13, 2009 at 1:45 am
Is it possible that instead of pointing towards Mecca, if one stands at the entrance facing the “embraced” arms, you do in fact have your back to Mecca.
I think turning one’s back on Mecca, as one contemplates the bravery and deaths upon Flight 93, is a very subtle nuance which you have entirely missed.
Perhaps you might now consider closing your misdirected campaign.
4 hotoffthepress2 // May 13, 2009 at 5:25 am
Paul — You are, in fact, misdirected. Get educated.
5 MediaMike // May 22, 2011 at 12:26 pm
Actually, what I find appalling, is that anyone believes that Flight 93 was crashed in Pennsylvania! This man’s son is not buried at this location, as it was all a ruse, and no plane of any kind hit the dirt at Shanksville, a missile, maybe, but not a plane – no seats, no fuselage, no tail, no bodies, no luggage, no titanium engines, nothing. If this man’s son was killed that day, he’s buried somewhere that only Dick Cheney and a few of his Democrat and Republican cronies know about.
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