Ed in Az

Crescent aspect eliminated from Flight 93 memorial site

From:
Crescent aspect eliminated from Flight 93 memorial | www.azstarnet.com ®:

PITTSBURGH - Designers of a Flight 93 memorial have made a bowl-shaped piece of land its centerpiece, replacing a crescent-shape design that some critics had said was a symbol honoring terrorists, officials announced Wednesday.

Regarding the underline above... See below to see the quote from a blog, Flopping Aces, which posted a entry about critics back in Sept and listed several sites that complained of the Crescent shaped. However, now they made a bowl-shaped piece of land instead to appease those wingnut critics. See another underline below and you notice that the winning design before the change WERE selected by "victims' relatives so why can't they honor their wishes instead?

The new design for the memorial, to be built on the site of the Sept. 11, 2001, crash near Shanksville, features most of the details of the original, which victims' relatives helped select after a worldwide competition.

Now here's quote from: Flopping Aces: Flight 93 Memorial:

How in the world could the 15 people chosen to pick a suitable memorial design for the heroes of Flight 93 have picked a design that reminds EVERYBODY of the red crescent of Islam? Is this a joke?

Click the link to read more and at bottoms, there's links to various sites that whined about the shape of the memorial. Those bloggers ARE NOT relatives of those Victims that died on Flight 93! Geez!!

I shrugged and I have seen the memorial website and the "Crescent of Embrace" looks awesome! but however I can't believe those blogger posted picture the wrong way hoping to misled us to think that it looked like a crescent used by Islam or terrorist (you know a flag) when it is not!!
The Original selected design "Crescent of Embrace" can be seen at;
http://flight93memorialproject.org/docs/F93%20Board%2030x40%204-5.pdf via "Selected Design" You can compare it to those other bloggers that complained.

At http://flight93memorialproject.org/ and you can view the announcement which is a lastest project newsletter about the memorial. On page 2 of the PDF will show the revised design.

This website, http://www.zombietime.com/flight_93_memorial_project/ said

"Etaoin Shrdlu" has generated an azimuthal equidistant world map centered on the location of the Flight 93 Memorial which seems to indicate that the crescent is oriented toward Mecca.

(see the link to click to see the orienation) however it is not designer's fault, that's how the lanscape looked like before creating the crescent. should the designer orient it other way so the red area would be on top of where victims died? or orient the other way so it sort of pointed to north. But hey Victims's relatives CHOOSE it not the whole world!

Oh yeah you know that Turkey(click to see flag and read about Turkey) has a crescent flag but the nation is predominantly secular! and that the crescent (click to read more in full) shape is not actually a symbol of Islam!

However, it should be noted that the crescent was not a symbol used for Islam by Muhammad or any other early Muslim rulers, as the Islamic religion is, in fact, against appointing "Holy Symbols" (so that during the early centuries of Islam, Muslim authorities simply didn't want any geometric symbols to be used to symbolize Islam, in the way that the cross symbolizes Christianity, the menorah was a commonly-occuring symbol of Judaism, etc.). This is why early Islamic coins were covered with Arabic writing, but contained no visual symbols.

Oh well, it is too late. The change has been made and new revision is better. Now those whiners can STFU!!

Personally, I think those critics should send apologies to victims' relatives that they forced changes and that they forgot that victims are heroes which they have mocked at for no reason!

(Note: Flopping Ace has more updates on it and he's happy sheesh; )

Posted by Boult at December 1, 2005 12:50 AM