Posted on 09/25/2011 3:08:07 PM PDT by Starman417
Alec Rawls, who has been working with Tom Burnett Sr. to stop the Crescent of Embrace memorial to Flight 93, explains the circumstances (related by Mr. Burnett in 2008, but not published until now).
Mr. Burnett had been telling his fellow design competition jurors that the crescent is a well known Islamic symbol. In addition to the giant central crescent (now called a broken circle) Tom also objected to the minaret-like Tower of Voices. "I made a point at that meeting," says Mr. Burnett, "to tell people that we have an Islamist design here that can't go forward, please, stay with me."
One of the left-wing design professionals on the jury, Tom Sokolowski (then director of Pittsburg's Andy Warhol Museum) thought that objecting to the crescent shape, just because it happens to be used by Muslims, was anti-Muslim bigotry. In a rude attempt to shut down criticism, Sokolowski actually called Mr. Burnett "asinine" for objecting to the huge Islamic-shaped Crescent. (Sokolowski would later repeat this performance to the press, calling a local preacher "asinine," "small minded," "bigoted," "repellant," and "disgusting" for protesting the Crescent design.)
It was in this atmosphere, charged with universal awareness amongst the jurors that the giant crescent was indeed a well-known Islamic symbol shape, but also charged with uncertainty as to whether people would be allowed to mention this fact, that another family member, Sandra Felt, started to explain what she liked about the Crescent design. She liked the "embracing" nature of it, says Mr. Burnett. She liked the way it "reached out..."
At which point another family member "lost it" (Mr. Burnett's description), screaming in agony: "I don't want to reach out to those people! THEY MURDERED MY DAUGHTER!"
The Park Service claims it "lost" the minutes
This extreme level of conflict on the jury over perceived Islamic symbolism should have come out years ago. The jury included a designated, non-voting, minutes taker. This was not supposed to be a private deliberation. These were volunteer citizens, doing the people's business, and the jury minutes were supposed to be made available to the public.
The Memorial Project and the Park Service claim that the minutes were "lost." No doubt, but that doesn't mean the loss was accidental, and defenders of the Crescent design had good reason to make the minutes go away. Any faithful record would have been explosive, revealing these fierce objections from multiple Flight 93 family members to the blatant Islamic symbolism in the Crescent design.
The ballot wasn't supposed to be secret either, but the Park Service refuses to account for what they claim was a 9 to 6 tally in favor of the Crescent design. What does 9 to 6 even mean on what was a ranked vote amongst three designs? Did every ballot that did not rank the Crescent last get counted as a vote in favor?
The whole thing is fishy, and there is one most obvious reason why the defenders of the Crescent might want to keep the vote details hidden. The seven family members on the jury were outnumbered by eight academics and design professionals. Thus all six of the votes against the Crescent could have come from the kin, with only Sandra Felt voting for it. This is more than just possible. It is likely.
Another mother of the murdered said only that she agreed with Mr. Burnett, and he thought that the other two men amongst the family members (Gerald Bingham and Ed Root) were on his side as well, though both have since spoken out against his ongoing effort to rescind the chosen design. Bingham and Root are angry at the anguish that the families are still being put through over the memorial design, but could such men have voted for the Crescent in the first place, in the face of that mother's anguished cry?
A vicious left-wing ideologue like Sokolowski, yes, but it seems almost inconceivable that family members could vote for a design that other family members saw as a tribute to the terrorists, or at the very least, as reaching out to Islam. Since Bingham and Root are willing to speak out, can they please tell us whether they voted for the Crescent? If they didn't, then the vote amongst the family members was at least 5 to 2 against.
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Try it without the unnecessary apostrophe:
dhimmis.
“Roundup’’? Not a bad idea.
There was some controversy about the World Trade Center memorial as well. The WTC memorial was supposed to have content of American history, a whole series of negative episodes of American history. I don’t know if the plans were finally reversed. I wonder if both memorials were conjured up by the same people. Are lefties taking over the government agency that oversees national monuments?
Someone should place a large cross there.
ROUNDUP!
Good thought.
“The country is infested with enemies of Western civilization,” and Christianity. Addition by wita.
Any Islamic reference, however slight, should not be authorized or allowed in any memorial related to 9-11. It should be regarded as a slap in the face to those still suffering from the terrorist atrocity and murder of so many Americans, as well as the same to every red blooded American citizen. That goes quadrazillion for a mosque near the site in NY city.
JMHO!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry
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I found those to be very necessary in a sarcastic sense.
Need more HEAT!
At some point it is going to come down to us or them, because it is already that way for them.
“The Crescent of Embrace.”
Good God, what are these people thinking?
Not trying to be funny, but how about “The Crooked Cross of Care” at Auschwitz or Dachau?
Idiots all.
I found those to be very necessary in a sarcastic sense.
I’ll just bet you did! LOL! Of course they didn’t wrap
when I looked at them so I had to scroll right to see them
all, and believe me I looked at everyone of them.
lol.
I don’t understand why they didn’t wrap but next time I will use space and paragraph tags.
We Americans didn’t make any noise about this so the little Mecca is being built in Shanksville just like the Mosque at ground Zero.
Let’s just say I am glad I made myself (and husband, etc) visit the memorial FINALLY, before the “official” 1 opened. Very late, but better than making it seem I condone the travesty.
Might want to go for a D-9 CAT rather than a backhoe. You’ll be done much more quickly and thoroughly. And you may as well get one lined up, because I believe the people in charge of the project have completely SOLD OUT to the ragheads. Why else would they even give a nano-second’s thought to a design that even REMOTELY hinted at anything muslim?!
Daisy Khan must be the grand dame of New York social life, everybody seems to want to be close to Daisy. Wow! I wondered who was the Muslim expert who gave the builders all the detailed information about Islamic symbolism—none other than Daisy and Imam Raub. I don’t know if this is a fact that it makes sense if Daisy Khan has been invited to put in her two cents regarding Ground Zero.
The Andy Warhol organization must be in New York City since Warhol lived there. This is probably the center of this plot. It figures that Khan and Raub would insinuate themselves into the building of the two monuments to bring peace, joy and brotherhood between Muslims and Americans. (barf)
The NYC arts scene is loaded with homos and other leftists so I would imagine that they would be some of the top insiders when it comes to anything that have to do with arts, monuments or whatever.
I think a movement should be started that everyone refuse to contribute even one penny to the Flight 93 memorial site until this design choice is reversed. No money should be invested or contributed until and unless another design that is not a crescent is chosen. Let them have their damnable design, but only the design on paper, no design on the site, because no one will contribute to their abominable cause.
You are aware that it already started in force, right?
Now a wrecking crew would be needed.
"Embrace" is an interesting choice of word. Muslims from North Africa all the way to Thailand use this word, even if they know very little English. From Algeria to Cambodia, "have you decided to embrace Islam?" is a question that is asked just before you are put on the to-behead list.
This is an extremely offensive concept for a memorial. Why are Americans doing this to themselves?
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