Haven’t been able to find out ANYTHING about Murdoch beyond the standard eco-friendly, multiculturalist drivel on his architecture firm’s website.

The only actual Muslim connection I know about is that he was a classmate of the Muslim architecture professor from MIT who lied to the Park Service, telling them that since the giant crescent does not point exactly at Mecca (it is off by less than 2 degrees) it cannot be considered a mihrab (the Mecca-direction indicator around which every mosque is built).

Throughout most of Islam’s 1400 year history, they had no accurate way to determine the direction to Mecca, and exact orientation on Mecca was never even a consideration. This expert on Mosque architecture would know this better than anyone. The fact that he was both a Murdoch classmate, and lied to cover up Murdoch’s mihrab, suggests that the two are in cahoots, which suggests that Murdoch was able somehow to rig the Park Service investigation into the accusations against him.

Some details about the phony Park Service investigation here.

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don bear,

Drag lines are pieces of digging equipment used in mining etc. They have long cables with big scoops on the end.

They are in the photographs in the post.

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Has anyone looked into the connections that I think have to be there between Murdoch and islam?

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragline

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I don’t understand what “drag lines” are. Could someone explain?

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John:

If you want to ask some pointed questions, feel free to call the Memorial Project office in Somerset PA: (814) 443-4557 .

You could try asking them WHO “broke the circle.” This is the official reason the Project gives for why the drag lines were removed: they do not fit the Paul Murdoch’s circle-breaking, crescent creating theme:

“National Park Service Deputy General Superintendent Keith Newlin said the National Park Service has a tendency to preserve landscapes and key elements of memorial sites if it will help people understand what happened there. The draglines weren’t in the airplane’s flight path, though they have been used as a reference point to explain the plane’s trajectory to first-time visitors.” (Somerset Daily American, 4/16/2008.)

In Paul Murdoch’s explanation, it is the flight path that breaks the circle (a Christian symbol, signifying the rising sun: the reason churches are built facing east) and turns it into a giant crescent (a Muslim symbol, signifying the crescent moon, to go along with their lunar calendar).

So WHO breaks the circle. The terrorist obviously. We couldn’t charge our Flight 93 heroes with breaking our Christian circle, or even a Kumbaya type humanitarian circle. It is the terrorists who broke the peace.

I’d like to hear the Project spokesmen answer why they are happy to depict the terrorists turning our peaceful circle into a giant Mecca oriented crescent, but they won’t talk to me.

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can someone give us the names of the people who picked this guy and who are approving the final desogn?

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