Posted on 04/27/2010 8:05:26 AM PDT by LottieDah
Jon Stewart, the host of Comedy Central's Daily Show, has been not-so-quietly waging war with Fox News for years -- and recently he's been turning up the heat. His most recent battle with the News Corp. (NWS)-owned network hinged on an airing of Fox & Friends, which two weeks ago asked (more than once) whether the crescent-moon shaped logo that the White House used during a nuclear security summit was some sort of Islamic image.
As the New York Times recently reported, Stewart had his staff call the White House to ask just that, and lo and behold, discovered that there were no Islamic ties after all. In fact, the White House told the Daily Show staffers that the image was based on the Rutherford-Bohr model of the atom. Of course, Stewart proudly reported this news on his show on April 14.
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If Obama's staff want to draw partial electron orbits that look like crescents, well perhaps that's the way they appear in Islamic physics books.
According to Link 2 the significance of the circle within a circle to Muslims is that the outer circle represents Islam and the inner circle represents the earth. In other words, the outer circle represents Islamic domination of the planet.
As Link 2 shows, the circle within a circle symbolism has been used by various Muslim groups over the years. Americans might not recognize what it symbolizes, but those Muslim groups would. Similar comments can be made about the image in post 62.
Are the Islamic aspects of these Obama images inadvertent? Perhaps, perhaps not. Inappropriate? Yes.
Did I insult anyone with my observation?
You don’t have to get nasty about it.
You just made yourself look like an Obummer-Bot is all.
The graphic is clearly not intended to represent any ‘atom,’ or they would have used the D.O.E. Logo. It is a crescent pure and simple.
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