Minnesota man upset about 9/11 memorial (Tom Burnett Sr)

KSTP.com ^ | 9/10/07 | Yelena Kibasova

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

A Minnesota man is upset over a memorial being built for those who died on United Flight 93.

Tom Burnett Sr. said the proposed memorial is full of Islamic symbols and does not want his son’s name to be a part of it. His son, Tom Burnett Jr., died aboard flight 93 when it crashed in Pennsylvania.

Tom Burnett Sr. said the memorial looks like a giant mosque with Islamic symbols such as a crescent shape around the point of impact that looks similar to the crescents featured on flags of heavily Islamic countries.

The superintendent of the memorial said such claims are based on faulty assumptions. Paul Murdoch, the architect of the memorial, explained in a letter that "the design will continue to develop."

Tom Burnett Sr. said the architect has changed the design several times to camouflage the symbols.

"I see what I saw in August 2005," he said. "It's still there and it's tainted beyond the point where we can do anything but throw it out and start over."

If changes aren't made, Tom Burnett says he will demand that his son's name be taken off of the memorial.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Link to video report with Tom Burnett Sr at link.

[Old Sarge]

If it's a Leftists/Muslim memorial, then maybe we can trash it
the same way they trashed ours!

[bajabaja]

First the artist says the claims are based on faulty assumptions but that the design is developing.

Does anyone local have a picture of this “developing” memorial?

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Ping....

[xcamel]

see:
http://michellemalkin.com/2005/09/10/flight-93-memorial-seeing-is-believing/

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Not sure where the "tower" is located in this rendering.

[shankbear]

Anything with any resemblance to a mooselimb symbol should be destroyed. The faux religion of hate cult should be buried forever.

[stainlessbanner]

Link to a blog that shows the proposed design. Same picture as the video link above.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

WTF was the “designer” of this memorial thinking?

And WhoTF hired this eejit??

[SGCOS]

I thought this was cleared up ~2 years ago, and was put to rest.....The memorial has been brought back up again?

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Yep, this is today’s news.....

[bajabaja]

Thanks for the information and links. It is the NAME of the memorial, “Crescent of Embrace” that is key here. What person with an ounce of historical or religious knowledge would use that symbol in the name of such a memorial?

At first I thought the father was stretching it, but now, with the name and the picture together, yeah, this is like putting a swastika in Auschwitz. Maybe I will get banned for that one, but heck, the logic fits.

[mockingbyrd]

disguisting....and to think that they figure we’re all too blind to see.

[Red Boots]

I thought this was taken care of a few years back, but perhaps its back on the drawing board. In that case, I vote that freepers and others buy a lot across the street, and make a real memorial. Everyone can go there, and totally ignore the offical one.

[Ukiapah Heep]

He has every reason to be upset. I am too.

[kactus]

A sculpture of Eleanor Roosevelt had to be redesigned because the woman wore “politically incorrect” fox furs. Now the sculpture wears a boring coat. So we rewrite history for modern “correctness”.

This memorial appears to be a symbol. Not a real memorial. So find a new designer!!! A red crescent shape doesn’t cut it!
The families need to be on board for any design selected!

[in the Arena]

Murdoch is an idiot...

[xcamel]

Did anyone notice the points of the crescent point toward Mecca?

[MarineDad]

Hopefully, they're not the only things pointed that way...

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

That has always been a bone of contention.....

[MarineDad]

Disgusting pandering to ragheaddism, believing it will accomplish "healing," or "understanding," or "mutual respect," or some such PC crap.

SOB designer ought to be strung up on a mosque or an outhouse...

...they both have his beloved crescent moon at the top!

[xcamel]

see:
http://www.zombietime.com/flight_93_memorial_project/mz936ie.jpg

much more at that site...

[MarineDad]

Very interesting graphic! Thanks for directing me to it!

That accursed memorial's orientation is good enought to use for targeting, let alone pandering.

I vote for the former...

[Finalapproach29er]

Unfrickin believable.

These bastards rape us and we say thanks in our memorial.

I’m sick of diversity!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[pandoraou812]

IMHO he needs to be replaced with someone who will build a fitting memorial. The families of the dead victims should have a say in what is going to be built. A Crescent is in poor taste and insulting to the victims. Shaking my head again...

[IronJack]

The irony is that the muslime are the first to pout when they see a Coke can or a candy bar that has something vaguely approximating the Arabic chicken scratchings for "Allah" or "Mohammerhead." We're constantly condemned as "insensitive" for allowing such blasphemies on commercial products. Yet these same filth go wide-eyed and blind when their putrid symbol defiles this holy ground.

A more disgusting race of people I cannot imagine.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Political correctness is going to get us all killed.

[RDTF]

we’ve all been saying that for years

[Fred Nerks]

and the fact that the lake in the memorial site almost fits the outline of the kabba in mecca is just a coincidence...

[TheThinker]

For those of you who would like to sign a petition to oppose the building of this “memorial”, here is the link:

http://www.petitiononline.com/NOCRSCNT/petition.html

[ashtanga]

Didn’t the US outlaw the practice of Shinto after the fall of Japan in 1945? No, this has nothing to do with the designs on this building, or perhaps it does.

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