7/30/2008
For Immediate Release
Press Release
July 30, 2008
I am the organizer of the Stop the Memorial Blogburst, which is simultaneously posted by the evergrowing numbers of bloggers that participate every week.
Here are the bloggers who are participating as of this writing:
Over 90 different bloggers are posting our exposes on the Flight 93 Memorial every week. Google the title of any of our blogbursts and you will find 3 to 6 full pages of links.
(Actually 7 this week, but many of the links disappear from the listings over time.)
The blogbursts have been written mostly by Alec Rawls, the author of “Crescent of Betrayal“, and blogger at Error Theory. Each and every blogburst is not only thoroughly documented, they contain links to source documents, and many of our blogburst participants are inveterate fact-checkers who will follow the links and make sure that the information is sound.
Starting from the source documents, I have personally verified several of the most damning factual claims about the crescent design.
1. I verified that the giant crescent in the original Crescent of Embrace design points to Mecca. This is how I did it: I entered the latitude and longitude of the crash site into the Muslim prayer-direction calculator at qibla.com. Then, I printed out the resulting Mecca direction graphic, placed it over the site plan on my computer screen, and observed that the qibla line split the crescent almost exactly down the middle, with one crescent arm on each side.
2. I personally verified that a crescent that Muslims face into in order to face Mecca is called a mihrab, and is a key mosque feature. It’s easy to do that; Google the Prophet’s mihrab in Medina, or the mihrab of the Great Mosque in Cordoba Spain. These two famous mihrabs are both crescents that Muslims face into to face Mecca. Geometrically, the Crescent of Embrace is an equivalent structure.
3. I verified that there are 44 translucent memorial blocks along the flight path. I opened up the design drawings and counted them! The Sacred Ground design page shows 43 translucent marble blocks, built into the memorial walls that follow the flight path down to the point of impact. The Entry Portal design page shows another translucent panel at the upper tip, where the flight path symbolically “breaks the circle.” It is the huge glass panel that dedicates the entire site.
More facts that are easily verified can be found at the Proof of Betrayal page at www.CrescentOfBetrayal.com.
This design should be scrapped because it violates the single requirement that the park service had on this design; to leave the landscape untouched. There is a plan in place to DRAIN THE WETLANDS to accommodate this design. No other entry in the design competition did this.
The public law for the Flight 93 Memorial excludes the terrorists from the definition of passengers and crew; and are not to be honored.
These are just a few of the reasons why another design should be chosen to honor our heroes.
Cao
Cao’s blog
Http://caosblog.com
July 30th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
Great work Cao. Mr. Burnett and I will look forward to handing out your statement to the press when we hold our press conference in Somerset on Saturday!
July 30th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
Thanks, Alec! I am disappointed that I will miss yet another opportunity to meet Tom Burnett Senior, you and the rest of the people who will be joining you in Pennsylvania on Saturday! Godspeed to all of you.
August 2nd, 2008 at 11:01 pm
MASH Statement for Flight 93 Memorial Protest Rally
My fellow anti-Islamofascists!
Unfortunately, for security reasons, we are unable to make public appearances. That’s why I asked my friend Alec Rawls to read my statement on behalf of Muslims Against Sharia.
Islamic fundamentalists have been waging a terror campaign for half a century. At first, it has largely gone unnoticed. Marine Barracks, PanAm 103, First WTC Bombing, Khobar Towers, African Embassies, USS Cole were nothing more than distant incidents for most Americans. On September 11, 2001 it hit home. If most of Americans of the last generation remember where they were when Kennedy was shot, we all remember where we were when the second plane hit. And we knew: we are at war. We can call it the War on Terror, the War for the Free World, the War with Islamic Fascism, it doesn’t really matter. We all know who the enemy is. It’s Islamic radicals who are guided by the ideology of Islamic supremacy. Just as Nazis were guided by the ideology of Aryan supremacy. The only difference is that Gihadis consider it their religious duty to impose Islam all over the world and many of them yearn to die (and kill) for Allah. They use lines from the Koran such as “kill them [infidels] wherever you find them” or “slay the idolaters wherever you find them” as their guiding principles. I won’t get into lengthy theological explanation whether or not those lines are taken out of context or whether or not they only apply to specific historical events; it doesn’t matter. What matters is that Islamic fundamentalist believe that killing or subjugating infidels is their religious duty and they act accordingly. Some of you may be surprised why a Muslim would be speaking so harshly about his coreligionists. May I remind you, that Islamic radicals murder more Muslims than Christians, Jews, Hindus and everybody else combined. Gihadis may hate you for being infidels. But they really hate us for not following their demented dogma. And our attempts to reform Islam do not earn us much love either.
I would like to address the issue of Islamic symbolism in the proposed design. The shape of the “broken circle” resembles a crescent moon. So does the shape of the tower. Crescent moon is the most recognizable Islamic symbol. When we pray, we face Mecca and Mosques are traditionally built to face Mecca. The case could be made that the proposed design is aligned in North-Easterly direction, which corresponds with Qiblah, a direction to Mecca. Conventional wisdom would dictate that since Mecca is located to the South-East of Somerset, Qiblah cannot possibly have a North-Easterly direction. This assumption would be correct if you’re using a flat map. However, if you take a globe, place pins on locations of Somerset and Mecca, and connect those pins with a string, you’ll see that string at the base of Somerset pin points North-East. This symbolism may not be noticeable to a non-Muslim, and it is also possible, but likely improbable that the designer is ignorant of its significance. The proposed design would be perfect for EgyptAir 990 memorial. But for United 93 memorial, it is simply unacceptable.
On September 11, 2001 Americans came together. Conservatives and Liberals, Democrats and Republicans, Left and Right. We came together… For about two weeks. Then most of us fell back into complacency and political correctness. The very fact that Islamic symbolism is considered to be included in the memorial to the victims of Islamic terrorism proves it better than anything else.
In 2001 Islamofascist terrorists hijacked Flight 93 murdering 40 people on board. There were no Muslim people on that flight. There were Islamofascist terrorists. What possible reason could be there for including anything Islamic or anything even resembling an Islamic symbol into Flight 93 Memorial? Inclusion of Islamic symbols memorializes murderers who brought down the plane and is tantamount to spitting in the faces of victims and their families. United Airlines Flight 93 was hijacked in 2001. Let’s not allow hijacking of Flight 93 Memorial in 2008. We, as Americans, owe it to the heroes of Flight 93!
Khalim Massoud
President
Muslims Against Sharia
http://muslimsagainstsharia.blogspot.com/2008/07/rally-this-saturday-stop-crescent.html
August 3rd, 2008 at 10:02 am
Thank you so much for leaving that here, Khalim. I will turn it into a blog post as well. What a powerful statement you have made!
Whether you are related to Ahmed Shah Massoud or not, I smiled and continue to smile when I see your name is Khalim Massoud.