Funded with a mix of public money and private cash (including a $500,000 grant from Teresa Heinz's far-left Heinz Endowments), the winning design, titled the "Crescent of Embrace," features a grove of maple trees ringing the crash site in the shape of an unmistakable red crescent. The crescent, New York University Middle East Studies professor Bernard Haykel told the Johnstown, Pa., Tribune-Democrat, "is the symbol of ritual and religious life for Muslims."
Am I missing something? Am I the only war supporter who thinks that perhaps a reminder that Islam has more than a little responsibility for inspiring and promoting the hateful version of Islam that motivated those murdering SOBs is appropriate?
It has been darkly suggested that the crescent arc points directly at Mecca and somehow this is bad.
Heck, put in runway lights that point to Mecca. Put a big arrow on the ground and remind people of the philosophical origins of that hole in the ground.
Given that this war requires Moslems to repudiate the actions of a small minority of fanatical killers, what is wrong with a little lesson that it really does take an Ummah to raise a terrorist?
