2005-09-14 Home Front: Culture Wars
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Lawmaker Blasted as 'Islamophobic' for Criticizing Memorial Design
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(CNSNews.com) - An Islamic advocacy group is blasting a U.S. lawmaker for his "Islamophic" comments on the design of a memorial to the 40 people who died when Flight 93 crashed in a Pennsylvania farm field on Sept. 11, 2001. As the Washington Post reported on Tuesday, Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) believes that the crescent-shaped design of the memorial to Flight 93 victims could invite controversy and criticism "because of the crescent's prominent use as a symbol in Islam -- and the fact that the hijackers were radical Islamists."
"The invocation of a Muslim symbol" -- whether intentional or not -- "is unsuitable for paying appropriate tribute to the heroes of Flight 93 or the ensuing American struggle against radical Islam," Tancredo wrote, according to the Washington Post..
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) dismissed Tancredo's comments as a cynical political ploy designed to gain national attention. "Representative Tancredo once again demonstrates his anti-Muslim bias and his thirst for publicity," said CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad. "He apparently believes he can only gain attention on the national political stage by fabricating a false controversy based on bizarre Internet conspiracy theories."
Awad added that CAIR is only challenging Tancredo's implicit linkage between Islam and terrorism. He said CAIR "will respect whatever the victims' families believe is an appropriate design for the memorial."
CAIR also is calling on state and national leaders of the Republican Party, including President Bush, to repudiate what it called Tancredo's Islamophobic stance.
CAIR says the memorial's designer, the National Park Service and relatives of crash victims describe the memorial's shape as a circle broken by the flight pattern of Flight 93. The memorial design, approved last week by the Flight 93 Advisory Commission, includes a crescent-shaped cluster of maple trees and a white marble wall bearing the victims' names. Maple trees are green, aren't they? Except in the fall when they turn red. | The National Park Service and Interior Department must give final approval before the memorial is built.
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