The Flight 93 National Memorial is a national memorial in Shanksville, PA. A National Memorial is a protected area that commemorates a historic person or event. National Memorials are authorized by the U.S. Congress.
Author Alec Rawls has decided to cut back the blogbursts to every other week for a while, but don’t think for a moment that the monument controversy is running out of steam. Let’s just say we’re reserving our energy for the endgame. The truth is on our side, and we therefore have the lead, so we should grind out some yardage. We don’t need to score on every down.
Tom Burnett Sr. has promised, “I’m in it to the end.”
And this can only end when the Murdoch design is entirely scrapped... Read Full Story
In this week’s edition of the Flight 93 blogburst, author Alec Rawls explains some of the finer points of contention in our claims about the blatant Islamic imagery in the monument design, and he calls on heavy hitters Allahpundit and Michelle Malkin to rejoin the fight against the planned memorial. Alec describes in this post how some of the most damning features of the memorial plan involve symbolic and thematic repetition and restatement, implying conscious intent on the part of the... Read Full Story
Here on this weblog I have often characterized much of the Park Service’s propaganda about the memorial project as duplicitous, and in today’s blogburst post Alec Rawls shows precisely what I’ve been describing, which in some ways reminds of typical exchanges with Islamist apologists about abhorrent passages in Islamic scripture.
When we point out to Muslim sympathizers the canonical basis of Islamic violence, calling attention to the jihadis’ citing of specific verses, do apologists offer... Read Full Story
by Alec Rawls
The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) is a Saudi funded Wahabbist group. Its logo is in the shape of a mosque with a crescent topped minaret and a crescent topped dome. Here is the ISNA logo juxtaposed to a similarly shaped mosque from Uppsala Sweden:
Both configurations have upturned crescents. The difference is that the arms of the ISNA crescents are lifted symmetrically, while the Uppsala crescents have one arm above the other.
On actual minarets, the Uppsala... Read Full Story
I don’t have much to say tonight regarding this edition of the Flight 93 blogburst, because like everyone else I’ve been busy watching Sarah Palin rock the Republican house in Minnesota. Alec Rawls, though, outdoes himself in this installment, which winds up, appropriately, at last week’s Democratic convention, where Islamic Society of North America President Ingrid Matteson spoke.
After watching Governor Palin mock and belittle the Dems, it’s hard to reflect on all their unsavory... Read Full Story
