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The Other 9/11 Mosque

Is another Ground Zero mosque currently under construction in the United States? 

While tens of thousands gather in protest of the New York City proposed mosque-trocity many believe there is an even more glaring example of the Islamization of our 9/11 memorials going on in Shanksville Pennsylvania - virtually unnoticed.  Those concerned fear the Flight 93 Memorial is nothing more than a shrine to Islam - an open air mosque that is thinly disguised as a memorial.

Is the Flight 93 memorial honoring the heroes who died trying to stop the hijacking Islamist terrorists from causing even more carnage? Or is this really a Islamic symbol/memorial to the murdering muslim hijackers?

Coincidence or Plan? Conspiracy or Reality?

What do you think?

Flight 93 Memorial centerpiece

Under Construction - the Other 9/11 Mosque

 By Cynthia Yacowar-Sweeney  Tuesday, October 12, 2010

With eyes on New York, it’s easy to overlook the other ground-zero mosque that is presently being built in Shanksville Pennsylvania at the Flight 93 crash site. That 9/11 site is home to what will soon be the world’s largest open-air mosque disguised as a memorial, contends author Alec Rawls. After five years of insignificant media coverage and minimal public awareness, construction of the Flight 93 Memorial centerpiece is already in progress.

The giant half-mile wide Islamic-shaped red crescent of maple trees is slated for completion next year on the 10th anniversary of 9/11, when the autumn leaves of the crescent’s trees turn a brilliant flaming red. The 40 brave American heroes who seized control of the plane from Islamic terrorists and averted what would have been another 9/11 terror attack, are going to be honored with a design that features the major symbol of their murderers - a red Islamic crescent large enough to be seen from aircraft flying overhead.

According to Rawls, this crescent is one of many mosque features embedded in architect Paul Murdoch’s winning “Crescent of Embrace” design, later changed mainly in name only, to “Circle of Embrace”. Another important and mandatory mosque feature is Mecca orientation for prayer. For this memorial to be a proper mosque, it must face Mecca. And Rawls proves it does, in his book “Crescent of Betrayal: Dishonoring the Heroes”. Using math and geometry, Rawls calculates that the center of the crescent points almost exactly towards Mecca. That makes the Flight 93 Memorial a mosque. 

Another feature of paramount significance is a colossal 93-foot minaret-like tower that Rawls argues indicates time for prayer by functioning as an Islamic sundial.    The tower is shaped like a crescent with a crescent-shaped top. More crescents of trees surround the tower and together they too are oriented towards Mecca. The massive size of the tower and crescent displayed on over 2,000 acres of national park land, will undoubtedly convey a message of endorsement, proselytization, and aggrandizement of Islam that is not appropriate to the memory of the 40 American heroes. Not a peep from the ACLU – it is too busy purging the country of Christian symbols and remains silent as the huge religious symbol of Islam is being built according to plan.

The design was selected over five years ago from approximately 1,000 entries worldwide in a public design competition that was overseen by the National Park Service.  Referring to the memorial as a “terrorist memorializing mosque”, Rawls claims it is replete with Islamic symbolism of monumental proportions to emphasize triumph, and pays tribute to the 9/11 terrorists. In fact, every single detail of the design is symbolic. A string of coincidences or a conscious slap in America’s face?

Islamic imagery is certainly not foreign to Murdoch, having worked with award-winning architects Charles Moore and Arthur Erickson who did major design work in Islamic   architecture, the latter of whom designed an open-air mosque in the centre of the campus for the Islamic University of Medina. Erickson’s design appears to be the original model for Murdoch’s outdoor mosque (according to Rawls writing to blogger Hesperado). Furthermore, one of the Park’s design consultants, an expert in the history of mosque design and professor of Islamic architecture at MIT, did his Masters in Architecture at UCLA with Murdoch. Interestingly enough, the crescent and star are featured as the logo for Davis Langdon, the global construction consultant company that assisted Murdoch with the design. His landscape architect Nelson Byrd Woltz, also had a thing for crescents, according to Rawls, and incorporated many in earlier projects. Is it possible that Murdoch’s associates enabled him to properly incorporate mosque features into his design? Or was the design innocently conceived?

Intentional or not, the symbolism does matter and has remained an issue of grave concern for many, especially against the backdrop of the growing threat of Sharia Law in America - the legal code of the Quran which can be brutally oppressive when interpreted by radical Islamists who view the West as the enemy to be conquered. Just recently, on September 15th, a national security report released in Washington by Frank Gaffney’s The Center for Security Policy concluded that the threat posed by Sharia to America is critical. One way the teachings of Sharia can infiltrate and undermine western civilization is via mosques. 

If Rawls is correct in his contention that the memorial is truly a victory mosque in disguise, then there is ample reason for concern, given that many American mosques   are funded by Saudi Arabia, the country that gave America 15 of the 19 terrorists on 9/11, and are radicalized by its Wahhabi hardliners - meaning that these radicals   choose and train the imams and also write or give final approval of the sermons. The Wahhabists aren’t the only ones who have the freedom to force their hate ideology upon the mosque’s worshippers. American mosques are also being infiltrated by the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist movement that seeks to convert the world to Islam and to establish Sharia Law worldwide. The Brotherhood’s message of transforming the U.S. into an Islamic state (and eventually establishing a global Islamic state) became crystal clear back in 1991 when a key operative of the Muslim Brotherhood in the U.S., Mohamed Akram, presented Islam (in his strategy memo) as a “civilization alternative” that can be “enabled within the souls, minds and the lives of the people of the country”. He wrote: “The Brotherhood must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within”. Part of that process, which Akram refers to as “Civilization-Jihad”, includes building Islamic centers and mosques. 

Paralleling the construction of the Shanksville memorial-mosque is the growing number of mega-mosques across America, especially in rural areas similar to that of Shanksville. “It does seem to be part of a larger strategy to build mosques in rural areas and create Islamic communities, large Islamic communities, in rural areas for some larger purpose,” says Rebecca Bynum, a columnist for the New English Review. The possibility of propagating radical Islam from some of these mosques is not a far cry from reality. Is it any wonder why the colossal crescent design in rural Pennsylvania has raised numerous questions and eyebrows? Has radical Islam found rural ground upon which to rear its ugly head and spread its detestable ideology?

It’s high time to more effectively address the five-year controversy surrounding the design of the Flight 93 Memorial and give it the exposure and awareness it so rightly deserves. If Americans are to protect their way of life, it is imperative they ensure that this memorial honours the heroes, not the hijackers. Questioning where the estimated $58 million needed to fund this project is coming from, is a start. Does this extravagant and expensive design really do justice to how the heroes would best be remembered? Can’t a more fitting symbol be found to honor their sacrifice? Who were the jury participants of the design competition and who chose them? Who are the university and religious scholars with whom the National Park Service consulted? What other companies did Murdoch refer to and could they have possibly collaborated to come up with a design that actually honours Islam? And if so, why would Murdoch want to infuse Islamic imagery into a design meant to commemorate the legacy of those heroes who died at the hands of radical Islam?

Questions like these, which may be too politically incorrect for many to explore, let alone utter, are finally finding a place in American society and require more attention and investigation. Radical Islam is counting on our ignorance and complacency not only in the United States, but in Canada as well. There’s work to be done, so “let’s roll”.

End of article.

Memorial does face Mecca:

Those that question the (hidden) meaning behind the design of the Flight 93 memorial - use this designer's drawing to prove the memorial does indeed face Mecca.  SOURCE

Green circle was obtained from the Salat Times utility at Islam.com. It shows the direction to Mecca from Somerset PA. The red arrow shows that a person standing halfway between the tips of the giant crescent and facing into the center of the crescent is facing almost exactly at Mecca. The meaning? A crescent that Muslims face into to face Mecca is called a mihrab and is the central feature around which every mosque is built. (Everything you see in this graphic remains completely intact in the superficially altered Bowl of Embrace redesign.)

Here are some links to the war that is ongoing between the press and myself.

Yesterday's large color copy here:
http://www.crescentofbetrayal.com/WideSite-PlanAdCopyCMYK,PDF.pdf

Today's large color ad copy here:
http://www.crescentofbetrayal.com/Star+BlocksCMYK,FinalPDF.pdf

The Tribune Democrat's fact-checking free reporting here:
http://www.tribune-democrat.com/local/local_story_196231439.html

And here:
http://www.tribune-democrat.com/local/local_story_202233829.html

Danish Carnival "Axe" float to draw muslim criticism!?

As the saying goes - "A picture is worth 1,000 words":

Islam Criticism at Düsseldorf Carnival Parade

At this year’s Carnival Monday parade in Düsseldorf, float builder Jaques Tilly adopted the attempted attack on Danish caricaturist Kurt Westergaard as his theme. The famous floats from Tilly traditionally remain top secret at headquarters until Carnival Monday morning. As is obvious in this case, this “Axe Float” will most certainly pull along some protests from Islamic groups behind it (Translation of German PI-article by Anders Denken, Source: Düsseldorf Blog).

Former Gitmo Detainee Becomes XBox Star

File in the category of "You couldn't make this stuff up", former Gitmo detainee,  Moazzam Begg, is on his way to starring in a new X-box game. The new game, Rendition, is being developed by a software firm in Scotland and lets players control a Guantanamo detainee who is trying to shoot his way out of the prison. Begg's "expertise" was called upon as the game's creators needed to know the layout of the prison thus he was initially hired as a consultant.

Needless to say the game maker is being criticized:

"We have had a lot of hate mail about this, mainly from America, saying things like, 'Don't dare put out a game that shows them killing our soldiers," Zarrar Chishti, director of Scottish software company T-Enterprise, told the U.K.'s Daily Mail."

Hate mail?  Sounds more like adamant requests not to make an outrageous "true to life" game about killing American (or British) soldiers - can't imagine why anyone would find that offensive and unacceptable - can you?

Zarrar Chishti, director of the software company, insists that only "mercenaries" will be killed - mercenaries at Gitmo? - now that sounds a bit NON-realistic. 

Chishti further states: "We are expecting an extreme reaction to the game in the US. But we think it will sell well in the Middle East."

Well - guess that should come as no surprise - but you can be sure that the "extreme reaction" in the USA WON'T look like THIS or THIS over THIS. 

At a cost of £250,000 or $405,000, the game/atrocity is scheduled to go on sale this coming October.

Just another glaring example of:  For many people - when it comes to money - there is no morality.

For article go to:

Former terror detainee stars in Gitmo Xbox game

Moazzam Begg plays himself in Rendition: Guantanamo

BY GOLLY - NO GOLLIES - THE PC DOLL WAR CONTINUES

Abit off topic but yet pertinent in addressing what seems to be the never ending idiotic and out of control political correctness war on British institutions that has descended all the way down to a dolls and toys. 

It is noted that this little stuffed animated persona is NOT the teddy bear, named Mohammed, that has caused the near beheading of a British teacher by bloodthirsty outraged muslims. OR the innocent piggy bank that has been a traditional give-a-way to children upon opening their first bank account - now banned due to offending - who else but the muslims.

Nope this is the little golly who used to adorn jampots and is a stuffed toy that has been carried around and tucked into bed with British children of ALL colors - for generations. Yet supposedly one pea brained individual can snap their "offended" fingers and deny a market trader her livelihood as well as her customers from purchasing a British tradition.

In the upside down NuLabour/EU Politically Correct world it is the bottom rung individual that tells the majority what they can and cannot do, say or even tuck into their children's beds.

Market trader forced to remove Gollies after single resident raises objection

Last updated at 11:59am on 27th February 2008

Race row: A Golly similar to the dolls sold by Ms Richmond at her market stall

A market trader who made a brisk trade in Gollies has been ordered to remove the dolls from her stall after a single complaint.

Jennifer Richmond was told to take the Gollies off display at her gift stall at the Leyland Indoor Market, Lancashire, when a resident objected to their sale on racial grounds.

Ms Richmond said she had sold 200 of the dolls in the last few months showing the Gollies had become a popular feature of her market stall.

But councillors disagreed and suggested she remove them.

Ms Richmond said: "There is nothing racist about the Gollies at all. We have three Asian stallholders on the market and none of them find the dolls offensive.

"A lot of people like them because they were popular in their youth and we have sold hundreds since we got them in about five months ago.

"It's farcical, we wouldn't be selling them if they were wrong and we checked with the wholesalers first - they are laughing at the situation.

"We've even put handcuffs on one Golly in case the police come to take him away like they did when they raided a shop in Manchester.

"It is probably someone who does not know they are legal. One petty person has opened a stupid can of worms and it has been blown out of all proportion."

The Golly was originally a children's literary character from the 19th century and was adopted as a mascot by a jam manufacturer in 1910, before being dropped in 2001.

They have since become collectors items, but have courted controversy over their perceived racial connotations.

She added: "We have been here for about two years and do very well. The dolls range in size and you can buy them from £18.50 to £3 for the smallest ones.

"There is no law against them, they are not illegal and we want to be able to put them back on display as soon as possible."

Councillor Colin Clark, deputy leader of South Ribble Borough Council, said: "We received a complaint last week from a resident who objected to the sale of these dolls.

"We referred these concerns to the stallholder and suggested that the dolls be removed from display while we investigated the complaint."