[Sisku Hanne]

A poster on Little Green Footballs found anti-Bush postings by this Murdoch guy online. He's an LA lefty. I'm not so sure it's a coincidence. He's awfully vehement about not changing anything in the design.
How hard would it be to plant sugar maples instead of red maples so the "crescent" was orange or golden? The fact that he seems unwilling to even consider the emotional reaction in so many people(including the committee) makes me believe he's just another Sheehani.

[Jeff F]

Incredible. The design even includes a smaller group of trees to represent the star that accompanies the crescent moon.

A quick lookup and I see that the following Islamic countries have seen fit to honor the crescent moon and star(s) design by featuring it in their flags:

Azerbaijan, Kazakstan, Malaysia, Maldives, Pakistan, Singapore, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Algeria, Angola, Mauritania, and Tunisia.

Here is Pakistan's flag:

[lentulusgracchus]

A poster on Little Green Footballs found anti-Bush postings by this Murdoch guy online. He's an LA lefty. I'm not so sure it's a coincidence. He's awfully vehement about not changing anything in the design.

That about does it for me.

Change the design, and while you're at it, fire the designer, just on general principle. And make sure privately, one-on-one, that he gets it that we got it, and that's why he's canned: for being a Left Coast smartass.