Chagall He Isn't

A Dutch artist has included an image of the 11 September 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center in a stained glass window he designed for a cathedral.
Marc Mulders said the image, one section of a 20-pane window showing representations of heaven and hell, was intended to depict "hell on earth".

The pane shows an aeroplane flying into one of the twin towers.

The image of the stained glass in its context is found here. The USA Today blog has more, including more commentary from the designer (and apparently garbled in the translation:

Here's how Mulders, a Catholic, explains the depiction of 9/11:

For me it is THE example off the devil now; all those so called believers in mine and other religions who have blood on their hands instead off love in their eyes and soul for the other. For example:
1 the war between Catholics and Protestants all these years in Ireland
2 the crusaders in my religion
3 the soeni’ten and shi’eten in Iraq [ed: should be Sunni and Shi'a]
4 President Bush, he defends his battle with pointing to his and my God, and that is a God who asks us not to fight.

So for me that's devilish; believers who do the opposite; instead off the message off peace and understanding written in the Koran and the Bible, they buy a gun, go to war, hijack an airplane...

He's pointing to a conflict in Ireland that has been as much about politics and power as it is about religion. The Crusades ended hundreds of years ago, though the Islamic jihad continues to this day. The Sunni and Shi'a are fighting the same war they've been fighting since the Shi'a/Sunni schism more than a thousand years ago. As for the comment about President Bush, it seems to be an almost obligatory jab as Bush has and does defend the war in Iraq and Afghanistan on national security grounds against terrorist groups that operate in the name of their god. Bush has gone out of his way to avoid the religious implications, so it would seem that Mulders has it backwards.

If he's trying to make religious statements, it's muddled at best. Not that it matters much. The art just isn't all that impressive.

For the record, this is a Chagall cathedral window at the cathedral in Reims. (I'll have my own photo posted shortly).

UPDATE:
I promised Chagall. I deliver: