Rarely do I touch on regional issues, even in my own state of Illinois. However the kids have been grousing about the Sept. 11th Memorial here in Arizona. I’ve seen the pictures of the memorial, and you can, too here (including photos of the inscrip…

Update: Allah has a photo series from the memorial with more of the inscriptions.
This story originally came up earlier this week when conservative, Arizona-based blogger Espresso Pundit took a trip to the Arizona 9/11 Memorial in Phoenix,……

My 9:10 class was canceled this morning, so I thought I’d share with you all what I read in my newfound free time…Can anyone say “eugenics?” Fellow member of the German people, that is your money, too!Rightroots met their 15-day goal!! RNC……

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.

Glad I’m no longer an Arizona taxpayer.

Why should we be surprised at what comes out of Arizona these days? Flopping Aces describes a 9/11 memorial that includes references to a mistaken U.S. bombing of Afghanistan, Congress’s questioning why the CIA and FBI didn’t prevent the 9/11 attacks…

I am speechless.

This does not compute.

These people have lost America and do not know how to find it.

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Naturally, their logo is… a crescent moon.

/wishing I were kidding

We’ve got to be in end times, folks.

Got to be…

I’ve been meaning to visit some friends in AZ, I guess I’ll have to make a pit stop at this piece of trash and add my #2 cents.

He’s a shoe-in for he nomination now.

Their construction images clearly shows a crescent internal structure.

And take a good hard look at the dude to the right. Looks like a terrorist if you ask me.

Ask students to think about how they would answer these questions: What does the word “tolerance” mean? What do you do and how do you react when a person is different from you? Share that today they will be learning more about tolerance and diversity.
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Describe how key political, social, environmental, and economic events of the late 20th century and early 21st century (e.g., Watergate, OPEC/oil crisis, Central American wars/Iran-Contra, End of Cold War, first Gulf War, September 11) affected, and continue to affect, the United States.
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Ask students what a world-wide memorial to victims of terrorism might look like. Have students design/draw their idea of a memorial. Have them write a paragraph or two explaining how their design shows a world affected by terrorism in the 21st century.
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Inform students that today they will look at any effects 9-11 has had on our civil liberties. Enactment: Discussion: Ask students: What has our government done to prevent a terrorist attack from happening again? (i.e., enacted the Patriot Act, increased security at airports and other locations, monitored some overseas phone conversations, etc.) What are some of the negative and positive aspects of these changes? Do students feel the changes are helping to prevent terrorism? What else do students feel the government could or should do to prevent a similar event from happening?