Posted on 12/02/2015 9:47:52 AM PST by TigerClaws
With an appraiser's scrutiny, Ed Cutting, a New York City firefighter, stared at a fine Afghan rug painstakingly hand woven in a style centuries old. Its handiwork depicted an epic scene.
He stood Saturday in a weekend flea market at Avenue A and 11th Street in the East Village, at a booth displaying rugs. Several of the rugs, in a style usually reserved for depicting landscapes or abstract tribal patterns, showed a crudely rendered interpretation of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center.
The densely woven carpet that Firefighter Cutting was staring at showed two commercial jets slamming into two tall buildings, creating fiery explosions, and little stick figures plunging headfirst. Stitched into the rug were the misspelled words ''The teroris were nhe American.''
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Firefighter Cutting sounds a tad strange to me——and getting spelling wrong in the rug enforces my feeling.
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Christiane Amanpour has a painting of 9/11 on her dining room wall. Nothing new.
I guess you mean what the fireman saw was a tad strange. Not the fireman.
If a people has an everlasting grudge (or at least it seems that way) then it’s easy to see how they justify doing such horrific things. Cross them 1000 years ago, it’s like you crossed them yesterday no matter what benefit they got from you in the meantime. (I’d like those oil fiends to ponder where they would be without all the Western business.)
Devil’s behind it, as though that is any surprise observation.
Within days after the attack, I remember seeing muslims on the NYC streets selling souvenirs with photos and engravings of the planes flying into the towers. Clocks, tshirts, posters, fridge magnets, rugs, banners. It was disgusting.
“Cross them 1000 years ago, it’s like you crossed them yesterday no matter———”
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Sounds like the Irish——champion grudge holders,and I’m Irish.
:-)
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Irish can joke about that because they don’t really, in spite of their legendary hot tempers.
“Irish can joke about that because they don’t really, in spite of their legendary hot tempers.”
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I think the ability to laugh at oneself is a lost “art”.
Seems to be less and less of it around.
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Great art, ain’t it? Where can I get a print? The Iraqi ‘artist’ is soooo talented.
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