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. [history]
There's one on this thread.
That's a great catch.
I was willing to regard the crescent design as a simple blunder on the part of the designer, but you are of course correct: "tower of voices" is simply another way of saying "minaret".
Christian cross can be very generic and so can the Islamic crescent...you don't need the star... if you check out Islamic flag you see crescent in all shapes and form with and with out stars..
I thought the Islamic counterpart of the Red Cross is the Green Cresent. Islamic nations will not permit the Red Cross in because even if we have forgotten the original meaning of the cross, they haven't. And the cresent is loaded with Islam, in this country and elsewhere.
Sorry for your loss.
I'm also sorry that the crescent design was chosen.
I am happy that you think it is a beautiful tribute. I must disagree, however, and find it troubling that a widely recognized symbol of Islam was chosen to be a key feature of the memorial.
Perhaps it wouldn't bother me so much if it wasn't named as a crescent, and the color chosen wasn't red. It would still bother me.
I hope that it is changed. I will go so far as to voice my opinion to those who I think can make a change happen.
If it turns out that it remains unchanged, then I will certainly not be visiting it or supporting the building of it with my pocketbook.
I wish something would have been chosen that did not have this element of controversy in it.
However it turns out, I hope that the memorial gives you whatever comfort a memorial can provide.
Is everyone blind? The design includes a clear star formed by a collection of carefully planted trees right where you would expect it to be.
I'll bet that the Tower of Voices which is made up of forty aluminum wind chimes and surrounded by a set of concentric semicircular "resonating rings" will sound strangely like the resonate echoing calls to Islamic payer from a minaret. And golly gee, what a coincidence that will be.
YOu are absolutely correct. Leftists are amazing.
If the crescent is built, and Osama Bin Laden publicly thanks the state of Pennsylvania for honoring his fallen comrades with a symbol of Islam, how will the state respond?
Solemn, wistful wind chimes will not invoke memories of the bravery of the plane's resisters. Where's the "Let's Roll!" spirit?
Jeff,
One could assume that as much time, effort and money has gone into this design that it is indeed intentional
What the intention was is debatable but the intention was to create a crescent which is arguably Islam's top symbol since the Mohammed first sprang forth from Moon worshipping.
Insensitive to me.
Something nationalistic would have been much preferred.
Monuments to heroes are no longer really monuments. They are abstract art with a theme related hopefully to the act.
The Wall was largely scorned at first.....
I'm sorry for the loss of your father. I too think it is a beautiful tribute. I like that there are bells. In my mind it represents forty people that could not be silenced. It is a wonderful tribute to your father and the other passengers. Forty angels getting their wings.
http://www.khow.com/mpdownload/9-14_sandydahl.wma
(Windows Media Player)
She says the memorial design should go on as planned. None of the families members of the folks who died in the crash object to design either.
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