Controversial new US defence logo compared to Islamic crescent and star

By Heidi Blake Published: 9:11AM GMT twenty-five February 2010

Previous of Images Next The new Missile Defense trademark has been likened to Barack Obama"s debate pitch Barack Obama"s debate logo, that critics contend bears a distinguished correspondence to the new Missile Defense Agency pitch

As well as imitative the Islamic flag, it has been pronounced to bear a "scary" correspondence to the debate pitch President Barack Obama used in the electoral competition opposite Senator John McCain in 2008, according to right-leaning blogs and websites.

The round red, white and blue sign, that has additionally been compared to the comrade produce and sickle symbol, initial appeared on the Missile Defense Agencys website in the Autumn.

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It was written by TMP Government, a selling association that manages the websites for countless Government departments. But this sold pattern has held the eye of critics of the Obama administration.

"I"m carrying difficulty saying past the crescent and star in the new logo," one censor posted on WashingtonTimes.com. "Is this the vigilance to the Muslim universe that we"re not going to fire down their missiles?"

Frank Gaffney wrote on BigGovernment. com: "The new MDA defense appears ominously to simulate a morphing of the Islamic crescent and star with the Obama debate trademark ... Team Obama is working in a approach that as the new MDA trademark suggests is all about easy that "Islamic Republic" and the everlastingly assertive stance."

An unknown writer on the same website wrote: "Can someone find out just where this new trademark came from? Who written it? Why was the trademark altered in the initial place? Perhaps the Imperial Government engaged out the pattern to a association in Tehran, you think?

"It additionally looks a bit similar to a sickle. Maybe they couldn"t figure out a approach to get the produce in but being as well obvious."

Another writer on WeaselZippers.net likened the trademark to that of a "corny scholarship novella movie."

But Richard Lehner, a orator for the Missile Defense Agency, discharged the comparisons. "It"s ridiculous," he told Fox News. "It isn"t a new trademark to reinstate the central logo. It"s a trademark grown for recruiting materials and for the open website. Also, it was used before to the 2008 choosing and it has no couple to any domestic campaign."

Brian Collins, authority and arch beautiful military officer at COLLINS:, a New York-based pattern and creation firm, pronounced the new trademark used the "same visible language" as that of the Obama campaign, finish with dual circles and 3 stripes.

"The Obama trademark is filled with messages of hope, it"s about seeking toward an confident future," he said. "They"ve taken those expect elements and they"ve done them some-more technical."

But the engineer was distrustful about claims that TMP Government had Obama in mind when they constructed the bureaucratic branding.

"I wouldn"t buy the evidence that it"s an expansion of the Obama identity," Collins said. "There are similarities but I don"t see the birth in the Obama logo."