Alec Rawls at the Error Theory has an exclusive with the father of Tom Burnett. You may recall that Tom was one of forty people on Flight 93 that were the first to fight back against our enemy.
Tom’s father is now requesting that his son’s name NOT be inscribed on the 44 glass blocks places along the flight path inside this disgrace of a memorial.
Tom Burnett Sr. called me yesterday and told me that he approved of my efforts to expose the many Islamic and terrorist memorializing features in what was originally called the Crescent of Embrace design. “I am so happy you are doing this,” he told me.
He described his own efforts to stop the crescent design, including letters to the press that were never published. With the crescent design still going forward, he has decided that it is necessary to up the ante, and has authorized me to publicize his decision to protest the crescent design by insisting that Tom Jr.’s name not be inscribed on one of the 44 glass blocks emplaced along the flight path, or used anywhere else in the memorial.
“I think we HAVE to,” says Mr. Burnett. “It’s not that I pull a lot of weight around. I know that. I’m one of forty.”
Tom’s father also read two letters he sent to local papers which they chose to ignore:
Both of Tom Burnett’s September 2005 letters condemn the chosen design in the strongest possible terms. “It is unmistakably an Islamic symbol,” charged Mr. Burnett: “The red Crescent of Embrace… bastardizes what my son and others did on Flight 93.”
Incredibly, the newspapers declined to publish these explosive letters from the father of one of the heroes of Flight 93, a man who is also one of only fifteen Stage Two jurors, making him one of the few people who witnessed the design competition from the inside. “This all went on deaf ears, apparently,” Mr. Burnett told me on the phone. Neither was this the first time that his objections were stifled.
About the jury process itself, Mr. Burnett says: “I thought it was railroaded.” When he pointed out the Islamic symbolism of the crescent, the design professionals on the jury were scornful: “In effect, they said: ‘Don’t be stupid. That’s an aesthetic symbol. That’s all, and it’s used all over the place.’ They were telling us how to interpret it!”
Alec has both letters in full on his post, they are well worth the read.
When an Islamic symbol is used to commemorate the point when we started fighting back against Islamic terror, and everyone shrugs their shoulders, you know something is going on. This is crazy! Not only did the designers build this to be the largest mosque in the world, they include the four hijackers in the design!
How is it that this is not bigger news?
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