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Flight 93 Blog Burst: Muslim Outreach
Posted by Raven on July 10th, 2008
Muslims can earn goodwill by helping to stop the crescent plot
Al Qaeda’s 9/11 sneak attack cast suspicion on all Muslims. After the hijackers hid amongst us, pretending to be trustworthy friends while plotting acts of war, how can we know that other Muslims are not doing the same?
American Muslims could undo much of this suspicion by helping to expose the terrorist memorial mosque that architect Paul Murdoch is trying to plant on the Flight 93 crash site.
Non-Muslim Americans can tell themselves that the Mecca orientation of the giant crescent is esoteric or unimportant (even if they go by semi-Islamic sounding names like Allahpundit), but every Muslim will instantly recognize this orientation as the central symbol of Islam.
Other Americans can also get confused about the direction to Mecca, thinking that the northeast facing crescent memorial CAN’T point to Mecca because Mecca is south of us. Not American Muslims, who all know that the shortest-distance direction to Mecca is to the northeast, since the overwhelming majority of them face this direction for prayer:
A person facing into the Crescent of Embrace (which remains completely intact in the “broken circle” redesign) will be facing almost exactly at Mecca (the Muslim “qibla,” or prayer direction.)
Similarly with the Tower of Voices. Unbelievers can look up the minaret-like Tower and not recognize that the crescent projected against the sky is an Islamic crescent, but every Muslims will instantly recognize its specifically Islamic geometry (covering about 2/3rds of a circle of arc, with a circular inner arc):
Flight 93 tower, left. Uppsala mosque, right. Crescent topped minarets are a familiar sight in much of the Islamic world (including Sweden).
If American Muslims DON’T help to stop this al Qaeda sympathizing architect from building an Islamic memorial to the 9/11 terrorists, when many who are less familiar with Islamic symbolism are stepping up, what will it say about their loyalties? How can these fellow countrymen claim to not warrant the suspicion that al Qaeda has cast onto all Muslims if they will not help stop an al Qaeda attack that is more easily recognizable to them than to anyone else?
On the other hand, if American Muslims DO step up and expose this al Qaeda sympathizing plot against their new homeland, it will demonstrate that they ARE trustworthy friends.
This loyalty to America is what is what the rest of America wants to see. Is it what our Muslim countrymen want?
EVERYONE is encouraged to please sign our petition against the crescent mosque, and please come to Somerset PA on Saturday August 2nd to help Tom Burnett Sr. protest the crescent design.
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July 10th, 2008 at 9:17 am
I’ve read HotAir for quite a while. For what it’s worth, Allahpundit is an atheist.
July 28th, 2008 at 11:10 pm
Hey! I’m an American Muslim living in NC. I was born and raised here and I’m as patriotic as you are. My parents were born and raised here… and THEIR parents were too… The first thing I’d like to say about this is that it’s the first time I’ve heard anything about the 9/11 memorials even HAVING crescents! You should not assume that we all know this and we’re just sitting back chuckling about it. Most people probably don’t know what the proposed memorials look like. You are right that we pray facing Northeast. You are right that the crescent is typically accepted as an Islamic symbol worldwide. I don’t see how that has any connection to AlQaeda however. I find it ironic that the architect has a crescent that “points” (not sure how a crescent can point in any one direction as it has two points) toward Mecca, but rather than assuming conspiracy wouldn’t it be wise to ask first? If it was an ignorant mistake, you have just demonized the man to the point that I wouldn’t be surprised if some redneck didn’t shoot him for it. I think rather than asking people to come “tackle the terrorist” you should have them “ASK the ARCHITECT” and request that he change the shape to a square or V and to have it face a direction other than Northeast. How’s that idea? Talk about extremists. Grab a mirror bud.