It points towards Mecca (Flight 93 memorial)

Politicalities ^ | Sept 11,2005 | Jonathan Haas

[BigSkyFreeper]

I'd spend more time persuading the parents and victims families who approved of this memorial. Screw the leftist nutjobs, they're beyond help.

[freepatriot32]

i give it one hourafterits dedication beforeitis burned totheground as well it should be

[King Prout]

which FReeper would that be?

[azhenfud]

I believe the employment of a crescent of any fashion is an insult to those who died and to their families on 9/11 since the official islamite symbol is a crescent.

The Architect's license to practice ought to be revoked - especially if he lies and denies any connection. It's an obvious deliberate insult to those who perished there.

I'm now gonna even be opposed to crescent rolls.

Islam is the true embodiment of evil and epitome of human suffering and oppression.

[Earthdweller]

Hey TereZZZZZa..what's next?

2010 Breaking News.....Lefties reconstruct Lady Liberty in an attempt to save their sorry arses from Islamofascists. (To heck with the rest of us)

[Earthdweller]

Here is the leftie spin on the Embrace of the crescent...

"When it comes to a memorial, all mankind sympathizes," he said." The idea of the Crescent of Embrace, Murdoch said, is to be a gesture of healing and bonding.'"

Baloney!!

If it's meant for "bonding and healing" where is the symbol of the Cross next to it?

[Eagle Eye]

ping

[Cool Multiservice Soldier]

This is infuriating beyond words.

[Jeff F]

The architect is on record saying "The reason the circle of trees is not completed, (Murdoch) said, is because it was severed by the path of Flight 93."

But this is simply more proof of this guy being full of it. A plane flying from Shanksville, PA to DC is traveling southeast. Why then is the severed portion of the circle of tree oriented northeast and (golly gee, what a coincidence) why is the severed path oriented precisely in the direction of Mecca?

I think Murdoch shares the sensibilities of the composer Stockhausen who once described the WTC bombing as "the greatest work of art ever". His monument is really a sort of celebration of this great "work of art".

I suspect that a part of him also thrills in subtly making fools of the flight 93 families along with all the rest of us who have not reached his sublime level of artistic refinement. Basically we are all being punked.

[Yaelle]

I have a friend in public art, as left as left can be, quite famous in her field, and every piece of one of her "works" has to be explained, as layers upon layers of symbolism have been put into it deliberately by her. She had to do something for a Nestle owned firm and deliberately put in some oblique references in stone about how Nestle gave powdered milk to breastfeeding third world mothers to get them hooked on their product. These artists excel at BS-talk to get their bids accepted, but they are devious and have their own agendas (besides just sucking off the taxpayer's teat).

[Yaelle]

I heartily agree with you. Contemporary art is bleak and the worst of it is in the public art sphere these days. The smoothest talkers get the bids. It's all in the BS, just like with used car dealers.

We need to immortalize the strengths, the unique strengths, of these people. They saved everyone in the Capitol. They saved people in towns underneath their flight. They gave their absolute ALL to save the innocent people on the plane.

They saved the people on Richard Reid's (shoebomber) plane with their example. They saved people on FUTURE flights with terrorists, who will fight back now, forever.

Their memorial should focus on that. Not on death.

They say that when you save a man, you save a world. What about an image depicting an airplane aloft with a thousand perfect tiny Capitol buildings on its wings? That's just an idea off the top of my head, and it's better than what that whole committee came up with.

Each of the human beings inside the Capitol, from janitor to Senator, may have a world of descendants since 2001, thanks to the brave people on this flight.

[spycatcher]

New post with big graphic

http://www.dailypundit.com/newarchives/004398.php

[StAnDeliver]

"It is going to come down to designer intent. And I don't know how we determine that."

I do. The Park Service and Murdoch are subpoenaed to a Congressional Inquiry.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Jack of all Trades]

mark

[Wolverine]

bump and thanks!

[ebiskit]

Hey Dumb-Arse. . .

It does 'open towards Mecca'. . . in exactly the opposite direction. The Earth is not flat moron.

btw... are u a troll?

Deets

[King Prout]

ebiskit,

who are you to pop in out of nowhere and address anyone as a "dumb-arse" and "moron" and "troll"?

D-fendr and I disagree on this design, and have done so amicably. I believe he is mistaken to wave off four odd similarities between the design and Islamic symbolism, but have felt no need to resort to foul ad hominem attacks. He believes I am seeing intent where there is none, and yet has not felt compelled to insult or deride my analysis.

So, again, where do you get off jumping in the way you have done?

[King Prout]

how about a tower built out of 44 stainless-steel columnar elements, each column capped with a fist-shaped capital, with the tower itself capped with a "digitus impudicus" which, naturally, should face Mecca.