A Stitch in Haste

The Flight 93 National Memorial announced that it has redesigned the main feature of the park in response to some rather bizarre criticisms that the original arc design was in fact a "crescent." (In strictly technical architectural terms it was indeed classified as a "crescent," but to laymen it was clearly nothing of the kind — it was an arc. And it was only "red" because of the trees.)

So now rather than critiquing Islam itself (which we cannot do because it is actually a "religion of peace" that has merely been co-opted by a handful of radicals), we instead choose to adopt an irrational and worthless zero-tolerance policy for crescents. Never mind the substance, just fight the symbol, even when it's not really a symbol and doesn't even look like the symbol.

Brilliant.

You can't have it both ways, simultaneously chiding the ACLU and others for attacking any and every expression of "God in the public square," while inventing crescent-shaped windmills to tilt at.

Consistency is neither foolish nor the hobgoblin of little minds.

Other thoughts at California Yankee.