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Flight 93 victims honored with Muslim Crescent?
WorldNetDaily ^ | 9/10/05 | WorldNetDaily

Posted on 09/10/2005 1:14:53 PM PDT by wagglebee

A Pennsylvania pastor is fighting the newly approved design of the Flight 93 National Memorial, contending its crescent pattern is a symbol of Islam.

Rev. Ron McRae, head of the Bible Anabaptist Church near Jerome, Pa., about 55 miles from Pittsburgh, said a private group he formed might go to court to block the "Crescent of Embrace" memorial designed by Paul Murdoch Associates of Los Angeles.

"This is a memorial to the terrorists who killed those people, not a memorial to the folks who died there innocently," McRae told the Tribune-Democrat newspaper in Johnstown, Pa.

McRae of Conemaugh Township, Pa., is director and founder of the Lancaster-based Street Preachers Fellowship.

The heart of the memorial is a mile-long semicircle of red maples surrounding the place near Shanksville, Pa, where the flight's 40 passengers and crew were killed when the hijacked plane plunged into the ground Sept. 11, 2001.

The designer maintains he used the term crescent only in the architectural sense of a curved line.

"This is not about any religion per se," Murdoch told the Tribune-Democrat. "It's a spiritual space, and a sacred place, but it's open to anyone."

But McRae vows to fight it.

"They wouldn't dare put up the Ten Commandments or the cross of Christ, but they're going to put up a red crescent," he said. "We're not going to stand idly by and allow this to happen."

Several weblogs raised similar concerns about the design.

Charles Johnson at Little Green Footballs asked: "Is this a coincidence, an example of amazing cluelessness, or something more deliberate?"

Ed Morrissey at Captain's Quarters said, "Can you imagine the outcry from the multiculturalists and the ACLU had the design incorporated a cross or a Star of David in honor of the victims? Why should we tolerate the Crescent that, inadvertently or deliberately, honors the terrorists?


Model of Flight 93 memorial


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"They wouldn't dare put up the Ten Commandments or the cross of Christ, but they're going to put up a red crescent," he said. "We're not going to stand idly by and allow this to happen."

I have a feeling that the heroes who brought down the plane would want to see this travesty burned to the ground.

1 posted on 09/10/2005 1:14:54 PM PDT by wagglebee
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To: wagglebee

I would say that anything that could be twisted into a cresent would be in bad taste.

Give the trees a few years to grow and then take an arial picture in the fall. That picture would be all over the Arab world mo-ricky-tick.


2 posted on 09/10/2005 1:18:53 PM PDT by PeteB570
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To: wagglebee

The heroes of that flight do not deserve this slap in the face.


3 posted on 09/10/2005 1:20:42 PM PDT by softwarecreator (Facts are to liberals as holy water is to vampires.)
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To: All

http://www.timesleader.com/mld/timesleader/12596768.htm

Posted on Fri, Sep. 09, 2005

"Preacher vows fight over Flight 93 memorial design"

Associated Press

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "SOMERSET, Pa. - A Somerset County preacher vowed to fight the design of the Flight 93 National Memorial, insisting that the crescent pathway used in the design is a symbol of Islam.

"This is a memorial to the terrorists who killed those people, not a memorial to the folks who died there innocently," said the Rev. Ron McRae, leader of the Bible Anabaptist Church near Jerome, about 55 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.

"The crescent is as much connected to Islam as the cross is to Christianity," said McRae of Conemaugh Township, also listed as director and founder on the Web site of the Lancaster-based Street Preachers Fellowship.

McRae said the group may go to court to try to block the "Crescent of Embrace" memorial designed by Paul Murdoch Associates of Los Angeles. The design centers around a mile-long semicircle of red maples surrounding the point of impact, where 40 passengers and crew were killed when the hijacked plane crashed near Shanksville on Sept. 11, 2001.

Though not accepted by all Muslims, the crescent moon and star is an internationally recognized symbol of Islam and appears on the flags of many Muslim nations."


4 posted on 09/10/2005 1:21:48 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: wagglebee
This is what happens when our government insists that our enemies (who are trying to kill us) are members of a "religion of peace."

When the bullcrap starts at the top, don't be surprised how far it splatters when it rolls downhill.

5 posted on 09/10/2005 1:22:07 PM PDT by Prime Choice (E=mc^3. Don't drink and derive.)
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To: wagglebee
the "Crescent of Embrace" memorial designed by Paul Murdoch Associates of Los Angeles.

"This is a memorial to the terrorists who killed those people, not a memorial to the folks who died there innocently," McRae told the Tribune-Democrat newspaper in Johnstown, Pa."

"Makin' a list. Checkin' it twice."

Now where's my little black book..... P A U L M U R D O ... etc...

6 posted on 09/10/2005 1:23:04 PM PDT by Lester Moore (islam's allah is Satan and is NOT the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.)
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THIS IS NOT A MISTAKE

THIS IS 100% INTENTIONAL

I BET THIS WAS SUBMITTED AND APPROVED BY THE BLAME AMERICA FIRST CROWD.

THIS IS DISGUSTING.


7 posted on 09/10/2005 1:23:24 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE!)
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To: wagglebee
Time to get involved in public "art".

1. Who is paying for this thing?

2. Whose land is it going on?

3. How can the families of the victims be educated?
8 posted on 09/10/2005 1:23:42 PM PDT by InABunkerUnderSF (San Francisco - See It Before God Smites It.)
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To: longtermmemmory

Unbelievable! The UN would likely want to make this a World Heritage site and demand we keep those trees protected.


9 posted on 09/10/2005 1:25:21 PM PDT by kcar (theUNsucks.com)
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To: wagglebee
Hitler had a monument of larches grown in the shape of
of a swastika..in order that it could be seen plainly from
the air..

This crescent is to be made of 'red' maples...its a red crescent...and seen from the air appears to mark the spot
where the flight ended the lives of all aboard...thanks
to Muslims..and their supporters among us..

Regardless of whether or not the 'artist' intended this
it is what it is...and many will find it offensive...

I'm sure the Muslims will find this most encouraging.. a sign from allah....

I say let the victims kinfolk have their say...

10 posted on 09/10/2005 1:26:44 PM PDT by joesnuffy
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To: wagglebee

Contacts:

Paul Murdoch Architects
5150 Wilshire Blvd., #504
Los Angeles, CA 90036

323-931-2271/p
323-931-9203/f

info@paulmurdocharchitects.com

http://www.paulmurdocharchitects.com/

http://www.flight93memorialproject.org/


11 posted on 09/10/2005 1:29:47 PM PDT by InABunkerUnderSF (San Francisco - See It Before God Smites It.)
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To: wagglebee

This is a joke, right? How have the families of those heroes on board that plane allowed this to happen?


12 posted on 09/10/2005 1:29:58 PM PDT by Peach (South Carolina is praying for our Gulf coast citizens.)
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To: wagglebee
Some people really need to get a life. So what do we do now ban Crescents? No more Crescent rolls, New Orleans the Crescent City destroyed....coincidence? I wonder.
13 posted on 09/10/2005 1:30:41 PM PDT by Valin (The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.)
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To: wagglebee

http://www.flight93memorialproject.org/contactus.asp

Let the National Park Service know how we feel about this outrage:


By Phone
Superintendent - Flight 93 National Memorial
(814) 443-4557

By Fax
(814)443-2180


14 posted on 09/10/2005 1:31:25 PM PDT by jimbo123
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To: wagglebee

The families of Flight 93 need to stand up. The designers and the committee that approved the design need to be told exactly where to stick it.


15 posted on 09/10/2005 1:32:32 PM PDT by billnaz (What part of "shall not be infringed" don't you understand?)
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To: wagglebee

This is disgusting. I'm not sure contacting the architects - the idiots who thought this up - will work. Is there anybody else we can contact?

I am totally aghast. Why memorialize the killers? I honestly can't think of a more inappropriate memorial.


16 posted on 09/10/2005 1:33:06 PM PDT by livius
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To: wagglebee

Look like this is Teresa Heinz' doing...


http://www.flight93memorialproject.org/competition_overview.asp

The Flight 93 National Memorial Design Competition has been funded through the generous support of the Heinz Endowments and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.


17 posted on 09/10/2005 1:33:12 PM PDT by jimbo123
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To: Prime Choice

This is what happens when our government insists that our enemies (who are trying to kill us) are members of a "religion of peace."

Right like these guys.


India town buries U.S. Muslim soldier slain in Iraq
Reuters ^ | 9/4/04
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1477079/posts

"I Punched Saddam in the Mouth"
River Front Times ^ | April 13, 2005 | CHAD GARRISON
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1391805/posts#6


18 posted on 09/10/2005 1:33:31 PM PDT by Valin (The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.)
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To: jimbo123

Thanks! I'm writing to the Park Service. Is there anybody else in charge of this?


19 posted on 09/10/2005 1:34:00 PM PDT by livius
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To: Valin

You're trying to make exceptions seem like the rule. Get over it already, chump.


20 posted on 09/10/2005 1:34:42 PM PDT by Prime Choice (E=mc^3. Don't drink and derive.)
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