National Park Service chooses symbol of Islam to memorialize Flight 93 victims

The National Park Service has chosen a "Crescent of Embrace" to encircle the Pennsylvania crash site where 40 al Qaeda victims died on 9/11 after passengers wrested control of the hijacked jet from terrorists.

The passengers' quick action after declaring, "Let's roll," saved the US Capitol or White House, the Islamists' presumed targets.

At a time when the Christian cross is practically verboten on federal lands except for individual gravestones, and when judges force the removal of the Ten Commandments from courthouses, it's ironic that the National Park Service would choose the symbol of the terrorists' professed religion to "embrace" the mass murder site.

The memorial architect told a reporter that the crescent is "not about any religion, per se."

With occasional exceptions, self-appointed Muslim leaders in the US have been ambivalent, at best, about fighting terrorism.

Leaders of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) openly supported State Department-designated terrorist organizations, at least three of its members have been sentenced to federal prison on terrorism-related charges, and one of its top officials refuses to denounce al Qaeda by name, even as the organization whines about how its followers are being picked on.

Columnist Michelle Malkin brings the horror of the National Park Service decision to light with an animated illustration on her blog, michellemalkin.com.

Thanks, too, to journalist and author Ken Timmerman, for providing the email, postal, phone and fax coordinates to the proper people at the National Park Service. Outraged citizens have been flooding the NPS Flight 93 Memorial website with comments and at times reportedly slow down the server: http://www.nps.gov/flni/pphtml/contact.html.

If you can't send a comment by email, Timmerman suggests traditional mail, phone and fax:

National Park Service
109 West Main Street, Suite 104
Somerset, PA 15501-2035

By Phone: Superintendent - Flight 93 NMEM - (814) 443-4557
By Fax: (814)443-2180

Ken Timmerman, by the way, is author of the chilling new book, Countdown to Crisis: The Coming Nuclear Showdown with Iran.