More things that make you go barf

Little Green Footballs has this post:

Flight 93 Outrage

Is this a coincidence, an example of amazing cluelessness, or something more deliberate?

The planned Flight 93 memorial in Pennsylvania resembles a giant Islamic Red CrescentUPDATE at 9/9/05 7:20:02 am:

Zombie has more:

UPDATE at 9/9/05 7:44:53 am:

Note the small grove of trees in exactly the same position as the star in the Islamic star and crescent.

UPDATE at 9/9/05 8:26:01 am:

The choice of a red crescent was indeed deliberate; the memorial is titled “Crescent of Embrace.”

Thing about this is, a crescent is in no way, shape or form an American symbol.

To accept this as a "honest mistake", one would then have to suspend belief to think that the architect, as well as those members of the approving committee were totally ignorant of the crescent's role as a symbol of the Islamic culture. I'm not ready to give them that large of a benefit of a doubt. To me, this was nothing more than a move toward "appeasement", or a move toward "let's try to understand and get along with the Muslims." I wouldn't be surprised for one moment if CAIR had its grubby little fingers in the whole mess. From here:

The idea of the Crescent of Embrace, Murdoch said, is to be a gesture of healing and bonding. The crescent marks the edge of the land, which will remain largely untouched.

Healing and bonding with whom?