Yet another thing that irritates me...
With the seventh anniversary of the Sept. 11th attacks currently here, I decided to read a few articles about. The top one was about the memorial constructed outside of the Pentagon to commemorate the lives of the 184 people killed there. My irritations about the number of deaths thus far caused by our (yes, "our" is the proper word since I am citizens of the United States, and I must include myself since I choose to live here) reactions to the event notwithstanding, I can understand way they built it. I don't wish to marginalize the loss of 184 innocent people, it should be that a single death is a tragedy. (Although, ironically, the fact that it isn't is a tragedy.)
So, further in the article they mention the memorial currently being constructed in Western PA. There are people who are complaining that the memorial looks too much like the Islamic Crescent, and not the broken circle it's supposed to be. Granted, the fact that the attacks were carried out by Islamic fundamentalist extremists and there should be a movement away from associating the two. But I feel it is more of a knee-jerk reaction to the situation than truly understanding what the designers were going for.
All that said, I find it fucking irritating that people still harbor such a resentment against the Islamic faith for this. It wasn't mainstream Islamic believers who did this. It was a small sect of fundamentalist assholes who decided that the source of all of their woes is the United States. I could say the same thing about some groups within the US itself (the KKK comes to mind). But the truth is, it really all boils down (thanks to Georgie) to the same shit that's been happening since the 11th century.
I like waving in retarded bigot faces the fact that the most respected man in the world in the 12th century wasn't a Christian; he was Muslim. Salah al-Din was a man respected on both sides for being incredibly chivalrous and virtuous. He was noted for having "piety, devoid of fanaticism..."
I'm thinking of naming my first born son Saladin.
So, further in the article they mention the memorial currently being constructed in Western PA. There are people who are complaining that the memorial looks too much like the Islamic Crescent, and not the broken circle it's supposed to be. Granted, the fact that the attacks were carried out by Islamic fundamentalist extremists and there should be a movement away from associating the two. But I feel it is more of a knee-jerk reaction to the situation than truly understanding what the designers were going for.
All that said, I find it fucking irritating that people still harbor such a resentment against the Islamic faith for this. It wasn't mainstream Islamic believers who did this. It was a small sect of fundamentalist assholes who decided that the source of all of their woes is the United States. I could say the same thing about some groups within the US itself (the KKK comes to mind). But the truth is, it really all boils down (thanks to Georgie) to the same shit that's been happening since the 11th century.
I like waving in retarded bigot faces the fact that the most respected man in the world in the 12th century wasn't a Christian; he was Muslim. Salah al-Din was a man respected on both sides for being incredibly chivalrous and virtuous. He was noted for having "piety, devoid of fanaticism..."
I'm thinking of naming my first born son Saladin.