Friend of the blog, Velvet Hammer, has a fantastic post about the fight Tom Tancredo is leading to stop the crash site for Flight 93 from being turned into a giant mosque.

Architect Paul Murdoch’s job is to work with symbols. He did not plant an Islamic flag on the crash site by accident. But even if this were somehow coincidence, it would still be wrong to build the memorial in a shape that the hijackers claimed as their own.

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Representative Tancredo was right to demand removal of the crescent. It turns out that a person facing directly into the half mile wide crescent will be facing Mecca. That makes it a mihrab, the central feature around which every mosque is built. You can plant as many trees around a mosque as you want and it will still be a mosque. This is the world’s largest mosque, by a factor of a hundred.

Read it all here. Great post.

UPDATE

Take two minutes and send Tom Tancredo a message telling him he’s doing the right thing by fighting against this travesty.