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TBogg deleted evidence of cover up at the Flight 93
Memorial

TBogg has edited a comment thread to remove an important piece of
evidence about the Memorial Project’s cover up of Islamic and terrorist
memorializing features in the planned Flight 93 memorial. A historically
important comment left by a consultant to the Memorial Project has been
deleted.

In January 2006, Alec Rawls baited
the TBogg leftists for insisting that it is perfectly okay to plant a
giant Mecca
oriented crescent on the Flight 93 crash site. TBogg’s comment
thread swelled to epic proportions and eventually yielded something more
than the usual litany of moonbat excuses for not thinking straight. At
the end of the thread, posted sometime in March or April of 2006, there
appeared an extended
comment, about 600 words long, posted anonymously, and written as a
semi-formal evaluation of Rawls’ January 2006 report to the Memorial
Project.

Mr. Rawls would later find out that this anonymous comment was the sole
piece of written feedback on which the Memorial Project was basing its
denial of Islamic features in the winning design. (Crescent of
Betrayal, download 3, pp. 149-50.)

The Project only communicated snippets of the TBogg comment, so the
fact that the whole thing had been posted online caught them by surprise,
undermining their ability to control the story. In particular, the
TBogg comment did not deny the Mecca orientation of the giant crescent. On
the contrary, it acknowledged that the crescent at the center of the
memorial is geometrically similar to a traditional mihrab (the
Mecca-direction indicator around which every mosque is built), and
offered a variety of excuses for why people should not be concerned about
this similarity. (e.g. “[J]ust because something is ’similar to’ something
else, does not make it the ’same’.”)

Dr. Kevin Jaques

Only in the last couple of weeks has the identity of the anonymous
scholar who wrote the TBogg comment been learned. Last week’s blogburst about the Park Service’s
fraudlent internal investigation discusses a Memorial Project “White Paper”
that identifies the TBogg commentator as Dr. Kevin
Jaques, an Islamicist (a scholar of Islam), at the University of Indiana.

One of Dr. Jaques excuses for not being concerned about the half-mile
wide Mecca-oriented crescent is that it is so much bigger than any other
mihrab:

Thirdly, most mihrabs are small, rarely larger than the
figure of a man, although some of the more ornamental ones can be larger,
but nothing as large at the crescent found in the site design. It is
unlikely that most Muslims would walk into the area of the
circle/crescent and see a mihrab because it is well beyond their limit of experience.
Again, just because it is similar does not make it the
same.

You might recognize it as a giant crescent from an airplane like
Flight 93 flying over head, but from the ground? Pshaw.

It’s too big to recognize!

TBogg deleted the Kevin Jaques comment from his comment
thread

For most of 2007, the original TBogg comment thread has not been
available, but TBogg now has it reposted, with one glaring omission: Dr.
Jaques comment has been removed.

If you want to see what TBogg
is posting now, the url for his 2006 “Lunacy abounds” post is http://tbogg.blogspot.com/2006/01/lunacy-abounds-nuts.html.

For posterity, here are copies of the original
comment thread, as of 5/29/2006, with Dr. Jaques’ comment intact at
the end, and the comment thread repost,
as of 12/3/2007, with Dr. Jaques’ comment deleted.

A full discussion of what TBogg properly calls “the infamous comment
thread” can be found in Chapter Eight of Alec’s Crescent of Betrayal book
(download 3, p 131-).

The question now for Mr. TBogg is why he deleted Kevin Jaques’ comment.
Did he do it on his own, or did he do it at someone’s request? Did Dr.
Jaques ask him to delete the comment? Did architect Paul Murdoch ask?
Did someone in the Park Service ask?

Whether TBogg acted on his own or was prompted, it is obvious that he
understood that he was deleting an important piece of evidence. Just the
fact that he singled it out for deletion shows a conscious act of
cover-up. Maybe he did not realize the full import of having the comment
remain publicly available via an original source, but he certainly knew
he was covering up something important. What kind of blogger
deletes a piece of evidence that he knows to be central to a high profile
controversy? (Republican presidential candidate Tom Tancredo (R-CO)
sent the Park Service a letter last month
asking that crescent design be scrapped entirely.) This is very bad
behavior.

Was TBogg’s comment thread originally removed in order to hide
Jaques comment?

It was odd enough when the “infamous comment thread” first disappeared
from TBogg’s blog. What blogger removes anything famous from their
blog? But at that time, there was no publicly available information that
could have alerted TBogg to the significance of that last anonymous
comment. The most likely explanation for the disappearance of the comment
thread seemed to be that TBogg simply had a coding glitch, or maybe he is
cheap enough to have been worried about bandwidth.

Now that the comment thread has been restored without the Jaques
comment, it seems likely that the reason the comment thread came down in the
first place was to hide the Jaques comment. The interesting thing about
this scenario is that at the time the comment thread was removed
(sometime between June 2006 and June 2007) the only way TBogg could have
learned the importance of that last anonymous comment would have been
through the internal investigation conducted by the Park Service in the
spring and summer of 2006. No one else knew that the comment came from an
advisor to the Memorial Project until July 2007 when Alec Rawls
released the downloadable “Director’s Cut” version of his Crescent of
Betrayal book. (Given the urgent public need to know, World Ahead
Publishing graciously allowed Alec to make his then final draft available
for free download until the print edition—still being updated—comes
out in the first quarter of 2008.)

The TBogg comment thread was removed before the Director’s Cut
release. (Noted in Crescent of Betrayal, download
3, at p. 131.) Chief Ranger Jill Hawk, who was conducting the
investigation, would not tell Alec who wrote the anonymous TBogg comment, but
Alec warned her to be suspicious. Given the overtly dishonest nature of
its excuse making, he urged her to double check its provenance. She
answered back that she had been able to get email confirmation of
authorship.

This email communication with Jaques might well have alerted him to the
faux pas he committed by posting his comment on the TBogg
thread. Did he then contact TBogg and ask for the comment to be removed?

That would seem to be the most likely scenario. Others who were privy
to the internal investigation could have also contacted TBogg, but there
is no evidence for any other such route of transmission.

It is disturbing to think that TBogg would have acceded to any
request to remove evidence about a possible enemy plot. He is fully
aware of what Rawls is claiming: that an al Qaeda sympathizing architect
entered our open design competition with a plan to build a terrorist
memorial mosque and won. Kevin Jaques’ TBogg comment is crucial for
understanding how such a plot could succeed, revealing the utter fraudulence
of the internal investigation that should have detected any such plot.
As the lone consultant to the Memorial Project on the crescent design,
Jaques engaged in overtly dishonest excuse-making. And TBogg is
willing to help him cover it up?

If TBogg has some other explanation for his deletions, the rest of us
would sure like to hear it.

The fraudulent internal investigation

For more of Kevin Jaques’ dishonest excuse-making, see last week’s
blogburst on the fraudulent internal investigation. Before the Park Service was done, it
managed to round up two more academic frauds in addition to Kevin Jaques.
There is Dr. Daniel
Griffith, who claims there is no
such thing as the direction to Mecca, and a third Mosqueteer still
to be discussed. (Saving the worst for last.)

But Jaques is the central fraud, being the Project’s sole source of
feedback during a crucial period when its dismissive posture was set in
stone. In addition to being an expert on sharia law, Jaques has also
proved to be an expert at taqiyya.

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