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To: FJB who wrote (10165)	9/20/2007 6:28:35 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 20106

"Their grasp of military terms is not that good." how many terms do they have for 'run away' and ' I surrender' ?

To: FJB who wrote (10165)	9/21/2007 12:33:36 PM
From: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20106

Tom Burnett's 9/11 protests against the crescent memorial I missed this last week. Mr. Burnett had an op-ed column in the Somerset Daily American on 9/11. He also did a second radio interview with Pittsburgh talker Fred Honsberger. These heartfelt appeals are well worth the time. If you want to feel the loving and heroic spirit of Tom Burnett Jr., just listen to his father. It is heartening also to hear the caller with the Indian accent expressing his fury that America is allowing this desecration to go forward, but he makes a mis-statement about the 44 glass blocks that will be emplaced along the flight path. In addition to the 40 inscribed with the names of the murdered passengers and crew, there ARE to be four more, matching the number of terrorists, but they are NOT going to be inscribed with the names of the terrorists, as the caller seemed to think. What is actually to be inscribed on the four extra blocks is much worse. The plan is not just to include the terrorists. It is to champion the terrorists. Three of the blocks are to be inscribed with the 9/11 date. These are to be built into a separate section of Memorial Wall that is centered on the bisector of the giant crescent, in exactly the position of the star on an Islamic crescent and star flag. Thus the date goes to the star on the Islamic flag. The date goes to the terrorists. (All you have to do to verify this placement is connect the tips of the crescent, form the perpendicular bisector, and see that it passes through the center of the separate upper section of memorial wall.) The 44th block sits at the end of the Entry Portal Walkway, marking the spot where the flight path breaks the circle in architect Paul Murdoch's explanation, turning the circle into a giant crescent. It is a large glass panel inscribed with LAFD Captain Stephen J. Ruda's dedication: "A field of honor forever." (Scroll down to "terrorist memorializing feature #2.") Do we really want to use "a field of honor forever" to commemorate the spot where the terrorists turned our liberty loving circle into a giant Mecca-oriented crescent? Paul Murdoch is TELLING us that the theme of the memorial is the terrorists turning our circle into a crescent. How naked does he have to be about his intentions? The original Crescent as Embrace publicity shot was as naked as he could have made it, showing a bare naked crescent and star flag planted on the crash site, easily recognizable as a crescent and star flag from an airliner like Flight 93 flying overhead: Every particle of this original crescent and star structure remains completely intact in the Bowl of Embrace redesign, where it is only slightly disguised by the addition of some surrounding trees. Hearts of Steel The good news from Honsberger is that there is wide awareness in Pittsburgh now about Mr. Burnett's and my warnings of Islamic and terrorist memorializing features in the crescent design. After Tom's interview, Honsberger did a five minute interview with Pennsylvania State Senator Jane Orie, who recently joined with the Pittsburgh Foundation to raise funds for an appropriate memorial to be built. Orie says that everywhere she goes now, everyone asks her about the crescent shape and the 44 blocks, so the word is definitely getting out locally. She also assured Honsberger that the Hearts of Steel money will not be released until there is consensus on their board that an appropriate design has been selected, and she notes that Mrs. Burnett is on their board. Thus if anyone wants to donate for a memorial to be built (and a memorial most certainly does need to be built), please donate to Hearts of Steel. # posted by Alec Rawls : 9/19/2007 05:55:00 PM Trackback Comments: Being a native Pittsburger, I know that due to their/our level headedness, the PIttsburgers will not allow this memorial to be built with islamic symbolism if they have anything to say about it. # posted by Anonymous : 1:31 PM By now many bloggers are aware of the controversy over the "winning" Flight 93 memorial design, by one Paul Murdoch, a Los Angeles architect. Entitled "Crescent of Embrace", bluntly put the design emulates an Islamic crescent. See: michellemalkin.com As with many architects, Murdoch fancies himself a deep thinker, and this usually means being able to spout the latest in post-modern, deconstructionist nonsense. I believe the Architect Murdoch knows exactly what he is doing: his task was to design a memorial about an event involving suicide bombers. He may have found his inspiration in Columbia Professor Gayatri Spivak's "post-colonial" deconstruction of terrorism. Professor Spivak has offered her views on both the concept of "deconstructive embrace" and in a notorious speech at Leeds University in 2002, "deconstructed" the concept of suicide bombing. An excerpt from her speech at Leeds: "Suicide bombing -- and the planes of 9/11 were living bombs -- is a purposive self-annihilation, a confrontation between oneself and oneself, the extreme end of autoeroticism; killing oneself as other, in the process of killing others... the destruction of others is indistinguishable from the destruction of the self...Suicidal resistance is a message inscribed in the body when no other means will get through. It is both execution and mourning, for both self and other. For you die with me for the same cause, no matter which side are you on. Because no matter who you are, there are no designated killees [sic] in suicide bombing....there is no dishonor in such shared and innocent death." [Quoted in The New Republic, July 29, 2002, p.9] She continues: "The ideal relation to the Other, then, is an 'embrace, an act of love'.... Such an embrace may be unrequited, as the differences and distances are too great, but if we are ever to get beyond the vicious cycle of abuse, it is essential to remain open-hearted; not to attempt to recreate the Other narcissistically, in one's own image, but generously, with care and attention." 72.14.207.104 Go to Amazon and see that one of the SIPs for one of her books is: "deconstructive embrace" 72.14.207.104 Mr. Murdoch, this is your thinking too and you've been outed! # posted by DowntownRod : 1:58 PM

To: FJB who wrote (10165)	9/23/2007 7:57:52 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 20106

"Our son is no terrorist, just a young Muslim" (THE family of Mohammed Atif Siddique) The Scotsman - Scotland's National Newspaper Online ^ \| September 22, 2007 \| MICHAEL HOWIE thescotsman.scotsman.com THE family of Mohammed Atif Siddique, the Scottish student convicted this week of al-Qaeda terrorist offences, have come together to tell of their heartache and their anger at the way he has been treated. They described how their son adopted a stricter Islamic way of life, a change that fractured their close relationship and ultimately led to his conviction. But they insisted Atif - who faces at least ten years in prison - was not a terrorist and that his actions were similar to those of thousands of ordinary young Muslims seeking answers about al-Qaeda and the "war on terror". (Excerpt) Read more at thescotsman.scotsman.com ....