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From the New York Observer:
- Islamic Museum To Be Built On Site Of Failed Ground Zero Mosque
From the New York Post: The developer of the failed Ground Zero Mosque has nailed down “Sharia-compliant financing” for a new, luxury condominium tower and Islamic cultural museum on the same site, he and his banking partners said Wednesday. The...
- Nyc Imam Leading Push To Scrub References To Islam From 9/11 Museum Calls Jews A “cancer”
From the Investigative Project on Terrorism: A Muslim religious leader who helped spearhead a push to get the National September 11 Memorial Museum to censor references to Islam in a short film about al-Qaida has said Jews “killed the Prophets and...
- The September 11 Cross
Check out this editorial written by the Editorial Board of the Washington Post:A misguided lawsuit targets the ‘World Trade Center cross’ By Editorial, Published: August 9 SEARCHING FOR survivors amid the rubble that was the World Trade Center,...
- Mummy Jihad: Muslims Behead Two Mummies
From CNN: Vandals ripped the heads off two mummies and tossed relics onto the ground in Cairo's Egyptian Museum, the country's antiquities chief said Sunday. But the group of about nine people did not manage to steal anything from the museum's...
- How Many Different Ways Do We Have To Tell Muslims, They Are Not Welcome
From Ace of Spades: It would never even occur to me, or any decent person, to erect a Museum of American Achievements in Aviation in Hiroshima. This is not a joke -- I am not saying a museum celebrating the bomb. I am saying a museum that does exactly...
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9/11 Museum To Focus On The Horror of The Attacks: Liberals Angry
From the New York Observer:
Re-Remembering 9/11: The New Ground Zero Museum
Visitors standing in a 120,000-square-foot cavern below where the north tower once stood will be confronted with not just the names but the faces of the 2,982 fallen. Artifacts will tell the story, from a huge FDNY fire truck, one-half of it pristine, one-half charred and crushed by the bridge collapse, to a pair of bloody high heels donated by a survivor who lacerated her feet as she fled the imploding towers. The museum will show the hijackers-and they will show pictures of people leaping from the towers, not to horrify visitors but to make sure the story is as complete as possible. Visitors will have to descend the actual granite "Survivor's Staircase" to end the tour.
If this seems blunt, organizers said, it is for the sake of posterity. "What we've tried to do is to keep our fingerprints off the story as much as possible," said Steven Davis, the museum's architect. "We're trying to tell the truth." For Mr. Daniels, president of the 9/11 Memorial and Museum Foundation since 2006, this is a chance to make a well-worn story fresh. People "are going to come in tremendous numbers when we open, and the question is what do we do with that opportunity, vis-à-vis 9/11?"Not this, say some historians and critics, who already are concerned. David Simpson, author of 9/11: The Culture of Commemoration, said there's a potential "the museum will not educate, it will simply shock," and generate so much emotion it will be a shrine, not museum. "Without in any sense diminishing the horror of 9/11, it isn't the single event of this history. It just isn't.... The more you focus on the immediacy of that day, those 102 minutes or whatever that was, the more risk there is of losing sight of everything else." Alice Greenwald, director of the museum, described its planned content in an article for Curator Journal in January as "both graphic in its violence and provocative in its implications." Too harsh? Too bathetic? Too sentimental? Will it celebritize the dead? Let the debate begin.
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- Islamic Museum To Be Built On Site Of Failed Ground Zero Mosque
From the New York Post: The developer of the failed Ground Zero Mosque has nailed down “Sharia-compliant financing” for a new, luxury condominium tower and Islamic cultural museum on the same site, he and his banking partners said Wednesday. The...
- Nyc Imam Leading Push To Scrub References To Islam From 9/11 Museum Calls Jews A “cancer”
From the Investigative Project on Terrorism: A Muslim religious leader who helped spearhead a push to get the National September 11 Memorial Museum to censor references to Islam in a short film about al-Qaida has said Jews “killed the Prophets and...
- The September 11 Cross
Check out this editorial written by the Editorial Board of the Washington Post:A misguided lawsuit targets the ‘World Trade Center cross’ By Editorial, Published: August 9 SEARCHING FOR survivors amid the rubble that was the World Trade Center,...
- Mummy Jihad: Muslims Behead Two Mummies
From CNN: Vandals ripped the heads off two mummies and tossed relics onto the ground in Cairo's Egyptian Museum, the country's antiquities chief said Sunday. But the group of about nine people did not manage to steal anything from the museum's...
- How Many Different Ways Do We Have To Tell Muslims, They Are Not Welcome
From Ace of Spades: It would never even occur to me, or any decent person, to erect a Museum of American Achievements in Aviation in Hiroshima. This is not a joke -- I am not saying a museum celebrating the bomb. I am saying a museum that does exactly...