Thursday, June 09, 2005

Jihad Memorial Center

If our Islamist enemies could win and implement their dream of an Islamic caliphate under their tender mercies, what kind of memorial might they erect (or rather, contract with some infidel dhimmi firm from South Korea to build) to celebrate their 9-11 triumph?

Well they couldn't go too wrong by going with this approach (via Powerline) as the basic template:


The World Trade Center Memorial Cultural Complex will be an imposing edifice wedged in the place where the Twin Towers once stood. It will serve as the primary "gateway" to the underground area where the names of the lost are chiseled into concrete. The organizers of its principal tenant, the International Freedom Center (IFC), have stated that they intend to take us on "a journey through the history of freedom" -- but do not be fooled into thinking that their idea of freedom is the same as that of those Marines. To the IFC's organizers, it is not only history's triumphs that illuminate, but also its failures. The public will have come to see 9/11 but will be given a high-tech, multimedia tutorial about man's inhumanity to man, from Native American genocide to the lynchings and cross-burnings of the Jim Crow South, from the Third Reich's Final Solution to the Soviet gulags and beyond. This is a history all should know and learn, but dispensing it over the ashes of Ground Zero is like creating a Museum of Tolerance over the sunken graves of the USS Arizona.

Toss in some "allahu akbars" and the de rigour "Death to America" multi-media presentation plus a snack bar serving symbolic cups of 72 raisins and you'd be all set.

As I noted before regarding the Gitmo controversy, sometime I get the impression that those writing the news think the wrong side is winning.

And we have a Vietnam comparison to toss in on this subject, as well (again, via Powerline).

Lovely, eh?