Pennsylvania Newspapers Pretend There is No Direction to MeccaIn September 2005, a half dozen different bloggers verified that a person facing into what was originally called the Crescent of Embrace memorial to Flight 93 would be facing almost exactly at Mecca. Some surrounding trees have been added to the design, but the giant central crescent remains completely intact in the Bowl of Embrace redesign:With Tom Burnett Sr. condemning the crescent design and refusing to allow Tom Jr.’s name to be used, there is now a big public controversy in western Pennsylvania over whether the giant crescent really is oriented on Mecca. In response, the Memorial Project has decided to deny that there is any such thing as the direction to Mecca, and Pittsburgh’s two major newspapers are both backing up this transparent falsehood.Professor Daniel Griffith, who is serving as a consultant to the Memorial Project, told the Post Gazette that: “anything can point toward Mecca, because the earth is round.” …Read more, here. If you want to join us in objecting to terrorists hijacking Flight 93 again, contact caoilfhionn1 at gmail dot com including the url of your blog. She will add you to the blogroll and email contact list. Once a week a day or two ahead of Wednesday’s when we will be posting the blogburst, she will email you the content of that week’s blogburst.Let’s roll!!!Stop the Memorial Blogburst1389 Blog - Antijihadist Tech
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