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Flight 93 marker design picked
Pittsburgh Post Gazette ^
| September 8, 2005
| Paula Reed Ward
Posted on 09/08/2005 8:36:43 AM PDT by GodBlessUS
Edited on 09/08/2005 8:44:54 AM PDT by Admin Moderator.
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To: GodBlessUS
Actually, the symbol for Islam is a crescent and star.
But you are correct. The use of a crescent is a little too close to the symbol of Islam for my liking.
The designers should have recognized this and further more, the jurors should have seen this as well.
To: Jeff Gordon
A gesture of surrender. Tell that to our troops risking and giving their lives for you.
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posted on
09/08/2005 8:51:05 AM PDT
by
Coop
(www.heroesandtraitors.org)
To: Jeff Head
Admin pulled this thread for whatever reason when I tried to answer yer post. Never are all the people pleased with a design yet a Crescent shape is too much in this case......close the circle completely or get a chainsaw and fix it at oh dark thirty.....
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posted on
09/08/2005 8:51:21 AM PDT
by
Squantos
(Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet. ©)
To: chris_in_nj
The fact that you have not lost perspective is a tribute to the good job your father did in raising you. I guarantee that he's proud of you. And so am I.
I'm sorry for your loss.
To: GodBlessUS
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posted on
09/08/2005 8:52:23 AM PDT
by
Andy from Beaverton
(I only vote Republican to stop the Democrats)
To: ladtx
Why not the "Swastika of Embrace" Holocaust Memorial.
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posted on
09/08/2005 8:52:57 AM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: GodBlessUS
No matter what your personal trainer told you,
jumping to conclusions is not an aerobic exercise, and crescent rolls are not inherently evil.
Islam doesn't have a patent on the crescent.
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posted on
09/08/2005 8:54:54 AM PDT
by
Corin Stormhands
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To: nuffsenuff
That's not the type of crescent that it the symbol for Islam, though. In what sense? it just the same as a cross in many form is seen as Cristian symbol
To: ladtx
The model shows a
RED Crescent which IIRC is the exclusive domain of ISLAM
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posted on
09/08/2005 8:56:15 AM PDT
by
xcamel
(Deep Red, stuck in a "bleu" state.)
To: Corin Stormhands
Islam doesn't have a patent on the crescent. And the swastika was a Hindu symbol for a thousand years before the Nazis appropriated it.
Still, a swastika themed memorial to the holocaust would be considered, by most, to be a poor selection of a symbol.
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posted on
09/08/2005 8:57:11 AM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: tophat9000
The memorial is just a semi-circle.
The Islamic crescent has a specific shape.
To: GodBlessUS
I think this may be much ado about nothing, but that model is so crappy that it's impossible to tell what the thing will actually look like.
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posted on
09/08/2005 8:59:01 AM PDT
by
Sloth
(Archaeologists test for intelligent design all the time.)
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To: dead
And the swastika was a Hindu symbol for a thousand years before the Nazis appropriated it. Well, thank you for that well reasoned argument Mr. Godwin.
This is a non-issue.
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posted on
09/08/2005 9:00:22 AM PDT
by
Corin Stormhands
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To: GodBlessUS
It looks more like a raspberry croissant, the symbol of France! Outrage!Mmmmmmmm, croissant!
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posted on
09/08/2005 9:01:01 AM PDT
by
Revolting cat!
("In the end, nothing explains anything!")
To: nuffsenuff
To: Corin Stormhands
I didn't think you could address the point, Miss Direction.
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posted on
09/08/2005 9:01:34 AM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: Coop
I see it's official name is supposedly "Crescent of Embrace." I think whoever chose that name should change it,I agree.
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posted on
09/08/2005 9:01:37 AM PDT
by
ladtx
( "Remember your regiment and follow your officers." Captain Charles May, 2d Dragoons, 9 May 1846)
To: GodBlessUS
I'm not going to get worked up over this.
It's a non-starter for me.
Can we, as conservatives, please not become hyterical ninnies like the looney left? Please?
To: Radioactive
You don't have a clue. Watch The Flight That Fought Back on Discovery Channel at 9pm on 9/11.
The Tin Foil Hat crowd will be proved wrong....again.
Chris Driscoll
Son of Pat Driscoll, Flight 93 passenger
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