Tancredo Up In Arms Over The Flight 93 Giant Mosque Memorial

Colorado Representative Tom Tancredo wrote a letter to Park Service Director Mary Bomar regarding the Flight 93 Memorial today, I should say disgrace of a memorial.  Alec Rawls, the one person dynamo regarding the planned giant mosque they call the Flight 93 Memorial received a copy of the letter from Tancredo himself:

November 5, 2007

The Honorable Mary A. Bomar
Director
National Park Service
U.S. Department of Interior
1849 C Street NW
Washington, DC 20240

Dear Director Bomar,

I
am regrettably writing you in reference to the proposed memorial to
commemorate the victims of Flight 93 which crashed in Pennsylvania on
September 11, 2001. As you may know, I contacted Director Mainella in
late 2005 about my concerns with the design.

The appropriateness
of the original design, dubbed the “Crescent of Embrace,” was
questioned because of the crescent’s prominent use as a symbol in Islam
— and the fact that the hijackers were radical Islamists. As I pointed
out in my September 2005 letter, the use of the crescent has raised
questions in some circles about whether the design would make the
memorial a tribute to the hijackers rather than the victims whose
mission the flights passengers helped to thwart.

When I received
Director Mainella’s response to my letter on October 6, 2005, I was
pleased to read her assurance that the advisory committee and the
architect were amenable to “refinements in the design which will
include negating any perceptions to the iconography.” I was also
pleased to learn that the name of the memorial was to be changed.

Unfortunately,
it appears that little if any substantive changes to the most troubling
aspect of the design — the crescent shape — have been made. This deeply
concerns me. As I told Director Mainella in 2005: Regardless of whether
or not the invocation of a Muslim symbol by the memorial designer was
intentional, I continue to believe that the use of this symbol is
unsuitable for paying appropriate tribute to the heroes of Flight 93 or
the ensuing American struggle against radical Islam that their historic
last act has come to symbolize.

I remain committed to ensuring
that this memorial is a powerful symbol for the whole nation and a
testament to the courage and will of the passengers of the flight — as
I am sure you are. And while I regret having to contact the Park
Service again about this issue, I sincerely hope that you will direct
the committee to scrap the crescent design entirely in favor of a new
design that will not make the memorial a flashpoint for this kind of
controversy and criticism.

Thank you in advance for your assistance.

Sincerely,

Tom Tancredo, M.C.

I have plenty about this disgrace on my earlier posts:

Flight 93 Memorial
Flight 93 Memorial, Update
Flight 93 Memorial, Update II
Flight 93 Memorial, Update III
Crecent of Betrayal Almost Complete
Flight 93 Family Member Against Memorial
More Flight 93 Memorial Lunacy

But the long and the short of it is that the damn thing is a crescent.  Those who designed the thing beg to differ but if it walks like a duck and it quacks like a duck…then its a friggin duck.  Who in their right mind can look at that design and NOT see a crescent.  A symbol that should not be a part of a memorial for those who were the first to fight back in this war on terror.

Thank you Tom Tancredo and some special thanks to Alec Rawls for his hard work on this matter.  In fact, listen in on the G. Gordan Libby show tomorrow to here Alec:

I will be on G Gordon Liddy’s radio show
tomorrow morning (Tuesday) from 11-12 Eastern, talking about the many
Islamic and terrorist memorializing features in the planned memorial.
The show should be a blockbuster.

Tom Burnett Sr. is going to call in. Tancredo or his press secretary Mac Zimmerman may call in. And YOU can call in:

1 800 GGLiddy

Streaming audio and broadcast stations here. Podcasts here. For the full exposé, see my Crescent of Betrayal free download until the print edition of the book comes out in February.

Curt

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