No need to get snippy about it. It looks more like the Washington monument than it does a minaret. That was the poster's point and my point in reply.
I agree. I just tire of all the people who do say it's crazy to see symbolic representation because they're demanding literal interpretation. So the star has to be an exact star or it doesn't count. Artists and architects don't work that way, especially if it's a potential political problem and they really want to get their concept past the jury.
It seems like the intent here was to envelop the area an a peaceful embrace of Islam, one that the architects thought was sufficiently abstract and secularized as to not be offensive, to heal the differences between America and Mecca.
Think of the immediate and overwhelming negative reaction if Lebeskind proposed a crescent building of glass for the Ground Zero Memorial Gardens. But somehow it's ok for Paul Murdoch to build a red crescent in Shankesville?