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It is absolutely beautiful to have leisure time to do anything that my heart desires. This morning, my wild, rebellious heart decided to take advantage of the situation and pleasure myself in forbidden ways; I decided to read the newspaper. I grabbed the daily edition of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. I sat down to read about what was happening in the world even though that information could have been found on the Internet, but I read anyway. What caught my eye was something written on the left margin of the front page. It was about Colorado's own Tom Tancredo putting his foot in his mouth again.

Apparently, the proposed memorial for Flight 93 just so happened to be in the shape of a crescent. Of course, it's well known that the crescent is a symbol of Islam. However, in the very letter that Tancredo wrote to the government official in charge, Tancredo mentioned that the architect didn't design the memorial in the crescent shape with Islam in mind.¹ Apparently, the artist had some concept that the crescent symbolised the broken circle that the tragedy caused. However, Tancredo doesn't care. He makes it known that the design needs to be reconsidered whether it was “intentional or not”. He states that the hijackers were radical Islamists, and it's not fitting to use a symbol that vaguely resembles one of Islam. First of all, so what? Radical Islam is to Islam what the Ku Klux Klan is to Christianity. Does that mean that the cross should be purged from our society because of its negative connotations?

1. http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/home/article/0,1299,DRMN_1_4077598,00.html