The crescent-topped tower

Not all of the Islamic symbolism in the Flight 93 memorial is hidden. One of the things that Tom Burnett Sr. protested from the beginning was the overtly minaret-like Tower of Voices. The Tower is formed in the shape of an extruded crescent, and even has its top cut at an angle so that its crescent arms reach up into the sky, similar to the upturned crescent motif seen atop minarets all over the world:

Up tower view (left) shows the Tower of Voices to be formed in the shape of an Islamic crescent, covering about 2/3rds of a circle of arc, with a circular inner arc. The top of the tower is cut at an angle (right) so that the crescent arms reach up into the sky. This sky-reaching crescent is a standard mosque motif, seen from the Abdul Gaffoor mosque in Singapore:

… to Your Black Muslim Bakery in Oakland:

… to the Uppsala mosque in Sweden:

There is no way that the Islamic shaped crescent atop architect Paul Murdoch’s minaret-like tower is an accident, any more than THIS could possibly be an accident:

That’s before you even get to the hidden stuff, like the Mecca orientation of the giant crescent; the 9/11 date placed in the exact position of the star on an Islamic crescent and star flag; or the fact that the Tower of Voices turns out to be a year round accurate Islamic prayer-time sundial:

Every particle of the original Crescent of Embrace design remains completely intact in the Bowl of Embrace redesign, which only disguised the original crescent with a few irrelevant trees.

That Islamic crescent reaching up into the sky is completely undisguised. How can anyone abide this?

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John McCain, a decorated veteran and war hero, has made no little amount of buzz regarding his honorable and distinguished service during the Vietnam war. With that in mind, one would have to wonder why his campaign, for all intents and purposes, openly endorses the antics of a hate-ridden blogger who served about 8 months in the Navy, and yet claims to have been a Navy SEAL, have earned multiple purple hearts, along with the distinguished Navy Cross. These claims are in direct violation of the Stolen Valor act. Of course, he’ll claim it is his First Amendment right to defraud people in this manner. But whatever.

The thing is, I’m not certain why Sheridan Folger would praise this hate-mongerer who wouldn’t know the truth if it snuck up and bit him in the ass.

Cristy Li has more about it all here.

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As everyone has probably heard, Fred Thompson has thrown in the towel in his bid to be President of the United States. This is a real bummer. Of all the Presidential candidates, I believe Thompson was the most Reaganesque. Sadly, he was never higher in the polls then when he was not officially running.

The good note is that Reagan had to run several times before he was successful and brought this country from the depths to which it had sunk, morale-wise, before his election. Perhaps Thompson will give it another go in four years. We can only hope.

In the meantime, the GOP side of the race is looking pretty bad. Don’t get me wrong, much better than Barak “Don’t hate me because I’m black” Obama, and Hillary “We’re gonna take stuff from you for the greater good” Clinton. So I suppose even Rudy “Hey, you don’t need no steenkin’ guns” Guiliani would be better than either of those louts.

My official prediction is that Hillary will win the nomination, but that is really only good for the GOP and not necessarily good for the country. Now, at the risk of sounding misogynistic, I do believe that Hillary is counting on the female vote, which she won’t get. Women are (and no offense) simply too critical of other women. Plus, having such a devout socialist as the nominee for the Dems, while the far left will love it, mainstream America won’t accept it.

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For those of you who enjoy reading the entertaining anti Islamic-supremacist crusader (oh, is that offensive?) Foehammer over at Foehammer’s Anvil blog, you’ll know he has had a recent rash of problems with his web server host. It’s been his contention all along that there are folks who are trying to shut him down. A recent message from his hosting company has confirmed his suspicions.

“This should satisfy all that are wondering what has been going on with the hosting here at the Anvil. I finally received an email from a LunarPages admin that actually knows how to do her job. Not surprisingly, her name is something that I can actually pronounce and most likely doesn’t belong to a Muslim convert. What follows is an edited version of the response, but you will now see that I have absolute proof that the Leftofascists and Islamofascists have been hard at work tying to shut me up. I’ve been telling LunarPages to check for ddos attacks for weeks; someone finally listened:

Hi,

Our admin has moved your account to a quieter server whilst the issues are worked out with regards to your CPU /MEM usage which is why your main page is back online.

This server has fewer customers and is less likely to crash in the event of attacks or high usage.

I have checked back through the last 6,000 lines of your domlogs for foehammer.net on it’s present server

It has indeed been hit by a flurry of ddos attempts:

This IP has almost 500 hits to your domain and is now blocked in the severs firewall:

(Hits: 467) #.#.#.# (netvigator Hong Kong)

There were also hits in the 100 to 300 from other ISP’s.

I then went on to check the pages hit by this IP and it is apparent that this attacker was angered by a post on there with regards to the criticism of obamas muslim background being justified as almost every single hit was to this article:

#.#.#.# – - [22/Jan/2008:22:37:33 -0800] “http://foehammer.net/2007/12/ criticism-of-obamas-muslim-background-is-absolutely-justified.html” “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)”

To overcome this I have now (edited out).

Your current usage is down today and this is before I installed the script, hopefully we will see this greatly reduced in the next 24 hours.

This “quieter server” is obviously a snail and unacceptable. I’m hopeful that once some protections are put into place that I might actually want to blog again.

To those that might think switching hosts is no big deal, I’m afraid you do not understand that I am being caught in this treadmill at the worst possible time for me personally, so yes, switching the Anvil to a new host is a very, very big deal — to me. Beyond that, the Anvil is not a virtual sheet of paper. It is a heavily customized blog and setting it all up again on a new host would take many hours of intense work that I think I made clear around the New Year definitely wasn’t what I wanted to be dealing with in 2008.

D–nit, at this point I do not even want to blog. Can anyone really blame me? Just look at the economy, the Presidential campaign, the continued rocket attacks into Gaza, the Stock Market being bought up by greedy Arab Oil Barons, and on and on and on.

Frankly, too much of what I’ve been predicting all these years keeps happening and it looks like we’re going to elect a President that won’t make things better, more likely far worse, in fact. Blogging to a few hundred awake readers and spending 40+ hours a week doing that is no longer an option for me. I have to start circling the wagons. I suggest many of you do the same.

This latest round of attacks on my Free Speech simply puts the exclamation point at the end of every sentence I’ve been typing since 2003. Watch out! It looks like I’m not lobbing softballs around here to be getting this much unwanted attention.”

All this is reported at the 1389 blog, along with some other great stuff. Bigsibling certainly hopes that Foehammer gets his blog back onto an acceptable server as the information he passes on is certainly information worth having. As proven by the DDOS attacks on his site.

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Here is another Rabbat deception:

Mosques are never in the shape of a crescent or a circle. This defeats the purpose of lining up the worshipers parallel to the Qibla wall (Mecca orientation), which usually translates into a rectangular shape, or sometimes a square. [From the White Paper released by the Memorial Project in August 2007.]

It is true that most mosques are rectangular, the more clearly to mark the direction to Mecca, but this is certainly not a requirement, given that the two most religiously significant sites in Islam are round mosques. Significant site #1 is the Sacred Mosque in Mecca:

Second most significant is the Mosque of Omar, also called the Dome of the Rock, on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, from which point Muhammad supposedly ascended into heaven:

Perhaps because of the prominence of these precedents, a small but significant number of mosques around the world follow the round model.

There is the Tun Abdul Aziz mosque built in Malaysia in 1975, referred to colloquially as the “Masjid Bulat,” or “round mosque.”

There is the new 5,000 person Arafat Mosque in Nigeria, which the architect claims is “the only round mosque in Africa,” but he is wrong. Another round mosque, Al Nileen, sits at the confluence of Blue and White Nile rivers in Khartoum:

[From Google Earth. Look up "alnileen mosque".]

Africa is also home to some older round mosques. Here is a round mosque from the Ivory coast. Similar mosques have also been found in Sierra Leone.

Here is a modern Russian mosque, laid out in shape of an eight point star.

There is even a famous round mosque right in the heart of the EU, at the northwest corner of the Parc du Cinquantenaire in Brussels.

There is a round mosque in Kuwait, a round mosque in Kadavu India, and probably many more.

At the Islamic architecture website Archnet, a Muslim architect (not a native English writer) explains the problem with round mosques:

… a circular mosque can not function well because a mousqe should have an oriantation to kibla and as we all know that a circle does not have an orientation, How can we know the kibla wall if it is a circle ?

This problem does not afflict Paul Murdoch’s mosque design for the Flight 93 memorial because Murdoch’s giant crescent does create an orientation. Face into the crescent to face Mecca, just as with a smaller size mihrab.

Geometrically, Murdoch’s Crescent of Embrace is just a gigantic Islamic prayer rug:

A Muslim prayer rug is a two dimensional mihrab, laid out to face Mecca, just as the Crescent of Embrace is.

Notice that to a person looking into the Flight 93 crescent, the irregularity of the outer arc of the crescent is not visible. The radial arbors are all behind the double row of red maples that line the walkway. The ends of the crescent are also well defined by the end of the walkway of red maples at the bottom and the end of the thousand foot long, fifty foot tall Entry Portal Wall on top. This is a perfectly comprehensible and recognizable Mecca direction indicator.

Rabbat’s comments to the Park Service do not even pretend to be objective. He lists “talking points” in defense of the crescent design without ever even pretending to weigh the merits of the case against the design.

Most obviously, Rabbat never considers the almost exact Mecca orientation of the giant crescent as a grounds for concern, but limits his remarks to possible excuses for not worrying about this obviously worrisome fact. The same for all of his other talking points. He only even considers ways to absolve the crescent design.

In short, Rabbat is as overtly biased as he could possibly be, yet the Park Service has no qualms about this overt bias. Rabbat gives them the excuses for unconcern that they want and they eagerly embrace him. The Park Service investigation into warnings of an enemy plot was a total fraud.

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I remember this guy from way back. And I was surfing the YouTube today and found this little gem:

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There is a case going on right now in California (go figger) that pits the Stolen Valor Act against the First Amendment (that’s the one that guarantees us free speech for you folks in Parma, OH). 

See, back on 2005 Congress passed the "Stolen Valor Act" which makes it a federal felony for one to say they have won medals in the military, when they, in fact, did not. This essentially broadens the scope of the law that was already on the books making it illegal for any person to falsely claim to have received the Congressional Medal of Honor. Now folks can be found guilty for saying they have…oh…for example…received the Navy Cross, or they were maybe a Navy Seal, when they weren’t.

One would think that an elected official might – just might – know better than to go around making claims like this. And I believe in most cases one would be correct in that assumption. Not so with Mr. Xavier Alvarez. Last year this ignoramus was at a water district meeting where he (for reasons only known to the laying bastard idiot) claimed to have received the CMoH for his deeds as a Marine.

Of course, some people just couldn’t take him at his word on this, and they did some checking (who knew someone would check out a story some politician tells about himself?). Lo and behold this guy never even served in the military, let alone received any awards.

Now he is being charged with the Stolen Valor Act, and his defense is…that’s right; "My lies are protected speech." Now, I do have to admit that I believe everyone has the right to be a moron, and that all too frequently people use that right. I also believe that everyone has the right to tell a lie if they want to. And that lies, by and large, are protected by the First Amendment. However, there are a couple of extra issues going on with this case.

This guy lied about receiving the highest honor any person can receive in the armed forces. The people that receive these medals are true American heroes. This guy’s lies trivialize the tremendous sacrifices of the true recipients and their loved ones. And for this, his lies should not be protected speech. Anymore than the lies of a con-artist should be protected speech. This guy, and every person who lies about either serving in the military or receiving unearned commendations should be thrown in the klink for a year or so, and should also endure a hefty fine as well. And maybe even have to clean off the memorials for our fallen servicemen that reside in the national mall with a toothbrush.

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Pentagon not the only Department giving the last word to Muslims covering up terror threats

Kevin Jaques from Indiana University said that the similarity to an Islamic mihrab should be ignored (a mihrab is the Mecca direction indicator around which every mosque is built) because there has never been a mihrab anywhere near this big before.

Nasser Rabbat said that because the Flight 93 crescent does not point quite exactly at Mecca (it is 1.8° off), it cannot be regarded as a mihrab:

“Mihrab orientation is either correct or not. It cannot be off by some degrees.” [From the Park Service's White Paper.]

Liar. Many classic mihrabs are oriented 10, 20 or 30 degrees from Mecca . The most elaborate mihrab in the world, the mihrab at the great mosque in Cordoba Spain , is oriented more than 45° off Mecca :

Cordoba mihrab points south. Mecca is east-southeast of Spain .

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Nasser Rabbat’s other lies to the Park Service are just as blatant. One of Rabbat’s “talking points,” as he calls them, questions whether the crescent is really an Islamic symbol at all:

The Crescent is a debatable Islamic universal symbol. Many groups do not use it. I know in fact of no militant group that uses it. Islamic modern states have opted to use it, sometimes with the star, which is a modern symbol with no Islamic connotation.

Appearing on the vast majority of Islamic flags is “no Islamic connotation”?

The specific question Rabbat was supposedly addressing is the use of a crescent for the shape of a mihrab, and here the Islamic usage is undeniable. Lots of mihrabs are pointed arch shaped, but the archetypical mihrab–the Prophet’s Mihrab at the Prophet’s Mosque in Medina –is crescent shaped both in its vertical dimension and its depth dimension:

Rabbat is a professor of Islamic architecture. Mosque design falls within his field of expertise. He knows the traditional crescent shaped mihrab better than anybody and just lies about it, the same way he lies about mihrab orientation having to be exact.

And that bit about not knowing of any militant groups that use the crescent? That would make Rabbat a very rare Syrian, if he has never seen the Hezbollah flag:

When the terror groups have the crescent embrace the globe, they mean that Islam will one day rule the world and subjugate all the infidels.

Here are some more:

Palestinian Liberation Front

Perhaps a better question is whether there are Islamic terror groups that do not identify with the crescent.

At both the Park Service and the Pentagon, Muslim consultants who are engaged in blatant cover up of terror threats are being given the last word by top level administration officials.

Let’s get those Congressional Investigations going.

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Take a look at this simple video. Fred Thompson speaks to so many things that I, and many, many Americans hold near and dear to their hearts.

Seriously, this guy is a true conservative in the same manner as Ronald Reagan.

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This is the kind of stuff that should have been going on for the past 10 or 15 years, not two. As we all know, the burning of fossil fuels (oil & gas for those of you in Parma, OH) creates pollution. The jury is still out as to whether this contributes dramatically to global warming or other climate changes, but there is not dispute that pollution just isn’t good for people. It makes the skies dingy, and our cities smell. Just take a look at Denver, right at the base of Rockies. A beautiful city with a beautiful backdrop, if it wasn’t for that brown cloud hanging overhead, so visible against the white snow of the mountains in the winter.

The folks at Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) railroad are developing a fuel cell locomotive. This project, if successful (and I”m certain it will be) would free our railways from the bonds of foreign oil dependence and produce zero emissions -  well, that isn’t completely true, it will produce emissions, but the emissions produced will be water, nothing else.

If BNSF can get their trains running on hydrogen fuel cells – and I’m certain they will within the next five years or so – then I can only imagine the next transportation system to make the switch will be over-the-road trucks. That would be so nice to not see those giant rigs spewing all that brown/black gunk into the air. I’m no environmentalist, and I’m certainly not a subscriber to Al Gore’s doomsday cult, but I’m also not naive enough to believe breathing that stuff is good for anyone.

Last year the feds kicked over about $2 million to BNSF to help in their endeavor and this year they are going to kick over about $2.4 million. And I have to tell you, with as much crap as the federal government spends money on, this is something I don’t mind my tax dollars going towards. That is, as long as BNSF has to share the technology straight away, and not hold the rest of the railway industry hostage to their whims.

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