To be honest, I'm not sure what to think of the whole crescent deal. Maybe it is pro-terror, maybe it isn't.
But I definitely oppose this memorial on the grounds that it's architecture is ugly new age horse apples and that it doesn't memorialize the heroism, courage, and bravery fo flight 93.
I see this memorial and its themes and concepts and instead of feeling the pride, honor, bravery, and patriotism of the heroes of flight 93 I felt nothing. And that really cheeses me off. this is a war memorial for crying out loud! You can't have weepy/huggy sentimental saccharine malarkey in a war memorial! I don't like the Freedom tower but it is 500 times better than this "Crescent of Barf." It's ugly but it's got freedom in its name, it's 1776 ft high, and it's got a sword pointing into heaven. Man I see that tower and it's themes and I feel everything that stupid memorial doesn't give me.
I think that the best way is not to scream at murcdoch or rendell, dept. of the interior or any of those guys about the "crescent of islam" aspect. A lot of Americans, although anti-terror are not anti-Islam. If you make it an issue about Islam you get two reactions. One is that the families simply won't care about the crescent aspect. They'll probably see it as just a crescent and disregard it. Worse, they will not like the anti-Islam aspect and oppose us tooth and nail as racist/discriminating maniacs.
More importantly, we would be opposing the wishes of the 93 families. If we just scream and yell, the libs will spin it to make us look bad. I can see the headlines now...
"RADICAL EXTREMIST RIGHT WING RACISTS OPPOSING WISHES OF FLIGHT 93 FAMILIES!!!!!!"
The best way is to convince the families of flight 93 heroes that our guys and gals deserve a hell of alot better than this and emphasize not the crescent of islam but it's themes and architecture. This will definitely get more people on our side.
Get the ACLU involved. They oppose church and state, right?
Using a religious symbol would appear to fall in their outrage list. Oh wait, it wasn't a cross. Nevermind.
But I definitely oppose this memorial on the grounds that it's architecture is ugly new age horse apples and that it doesn't memorialize the heroism, courage, and bravery fo flight 93.
Agree!