Arizona 9/11 memorial remembers U.S. airstrike on civilians, suggests that Bush knew

I checked the orientation of this crescent and was able to pretty much verify that it is NOT oriented towards Mecca. It seems that a person facing into the Arizona crescent-y memorial is facing due north, whereas the direction to Mecca from Phoenix is 29.7 degrees clockwise from north.

In contrast, a person facing directly into the Flight 93 memorial’s giant Crescent/Bowl of Embrace is facing 53.4 degrees clockwise from north, compared to a Mecca-direction from the crash-site of 55.2 degrees from north.

Crescent architect Paul Murdoch verifies that this inexact Mecca orientation is intentional by repeating it exactly in the huge array of crescents of trees that surround the Flight 93 memorial’s Tower of Voices minaret. (See post here.)

The Crescent/Bowl of embrace also includes an exact Mecca orientation (also repeated in the Tower of Voices array), and it is still on track to be built.

Allah’s comment about my analyses (his “protractor and compass” link) is well intended, but ignorant. He seems to have missed my explanation as to why the addition of a further arc of trees beyond the original crescent does nothing to alter the presence or integrity of the original crescent. This is because the original crescent constitutes a mihrab, the central feature around which every mosque is built. Think of the Crescent memorial as a giant Muslim prayer rug, laid out to point the direction to Mecca.

The Bowl of Embrace redesign adds a segment of trees behind this giant prayer rug, but as ought to be obvious to everyone, a prayer rug is unaffected by whether it has trees behind it. The key fact is that all of the defining features of the original crescent remain intact exactly as originally designed. The Bowl of Embrace is still a giant mihrab. Not only will it be the world’s largest most several times over (and there are 2 truly gigantic mosques in Saudia Arabia) but it is also explicitly a terrorist-memorial mosque, as anyone who looks at my analyses can easily verify.

Allah’s grounds for dismissing the Mecca orientation of the giant crescent is that having to get out a protractor and actually plot the orientation sounds to loose-change-y to him (as if the loose-change idiots actually ever verified anything). Sorry Allah, but the fact is that Muslims DO calculate the direction to Mecca, whether you think it sounds loose-change-y or not.

There are conspiracy nuts, and there are anti-conspiracy-nuts. Both exhibit the same mental process. Instead of following reason and evidence, they start with their presumptions, then pick and choose what to pay attention to according to whether it fits.

Of course Allah is not one of these, but he has been careless here. Let’s just say, I look forward to the horrified surprise on his face when Murdoch’s terrorist-memorial mosque is fully exposed, along with all the anti-conspiracy-nuts at the Memorial Project who have allowed him to get so far. Here is your warning AllahPundit: I am going to have a chuckle at your expense.

Alec on September 21, 2006 at 5:23 AM