Birds of a feather

A lot of attention has been put on the main face for the "ground zero mosque" and his refusal to condemn terrorist groups like Hamas but what about some of the other members of this group?

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/imam_pal_is_nut_gPPtzFWEtyaUlE3u4P4ckI

A founding member of an organization run by Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the driving force behind the planned mosque near Ground Zero, claims that the 9/11 attacks were an "inside job" and that Muslims have been made scapegoats, The Post has learned.

Faiz Khan -- who has preached at least twice at the former Burlington Coat Factory building, the site of the proposed mosque -- was for years Rauf's partner in the American Society for the Advancement of Muslims, which is dedicated to promoting a better understanding of Islam.

Khan also serves on the advisory board of Muslims for 9/11 Truth and is a founder of the Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance for 9/11 Truth, known as MUJCA.

On MUJCA's Web site, Khan wrote that "the inescapable fact [is] that 9/11 was an inside job."

"The prime factor for the success of the criminal mission known as 9/11 did not come from the quarter known as 'militant Islam,' although the phenomenon known as 'militant Islamic networks' may have played a partial role, or even a less than partial role -- perhaps the role of patsy and scapegoat," he wrote in documents uncovered by the Investigative Project on Terrorism.

Khan was listed as one of three directors of the American Society for the Advancement of Muslims in its 1997 incorporation papers, when it went by the name of the American Sufi Muslim Association.

ASMA and Rauf's Cordoba Initiative are spearheading the drive to create a $100 million Islamic cultural center and mosque near Ground Zero.

In an e-mail exchange with The Post, Khan said he ended his affiliation with the ASMA in "2002 and 2003," although that claim is contradicted by a record of him speaking at a 2006 ASMA conference in Copenhagen, where his bio listed him as a board member.

When The Post asked Khan who he thought was responsible for 9/11, he initially declined comment, but later said in an e-mail: "I am certain of a few things . . . The towers and WTC 7 could not have collapsed without controlled demolition place from the 'inside.' "

Ray Locker, managing director of the Investigative Project on Terrorism, said: "For someone who claims he wants the mosque project near Ground Zero to help build bridges and heal the wounds from 9/11, it's odd that one of Feisal Rauf's fellow bridge builders is someone who thinks the attacks that killed more than 3,000 people were an 'inside job' by the US government."

Khan told a group of 9/11 deniers at a 2006 Chicago summit called "Revealing the Truth/Reclaiming Our Future" that "the most logical explanation" for 9/11 is that the hijackers were working for corporate America and that the heroin trade creates "billions of dollars" that are laundered by "Citicorp and Procter & Gamble."

Rauf's spokesman didn't return calls for comment.

Meanwhile, Rauf said yesterday on ABC's "This Week" that he wasn't "making a threat" when he said moving the mosque would incite Islamic extremists to attack the United States -- although he insisted the warning held true.

"I've never made a threat, never expressed a threat, never," Rauf said. "I would never threaten violence ever, because I am a man of peace, dedicated to peace."

So tell me something, how can these guys claim they are against terrorists when everyone involved in this 'project' can't even admit that some Muslims are terrorists, and that Muslim terrorists caused 9/11?

You want to build a bridge? Start by admitting to certain basic truths.

And while your at it, if this building being built at this spot was really no big deal, why would all of the Muslim world attack us if it is moved to a new location? Why is that specific spot so important to Muslims as a whole to build this Mosque? None of these other Muslims live there so why do they care? Maybe the idea of a Mosque on ground zero is more important to them than they care to admit to?

And while we are at it, what is this 'tolerance' stuff they want us to show? How much tolerance do Muslim Countries show non-Muslims? How many of you know a non-Muslim is not allowed to enter Madinah and Makkah? How many of you know that under the Obama Administration, the military has burned Bibles?

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/05/20/us.military.bibles.burned/index.html

They claim the burning was to protect soldiers but could they have not just been locked up? Why burn them?

And it is common knowledge that Bibles and other Christian items like crosses are burned all the time in Saudi so why is it that "only" Americans should show some tolerance?

One idiot in America wants to burn a Quran and every Muslim in the world wants to hold all of America responsible? At least all of American leaders came out directly against this act as wrong, your will never see that kind of unity in the Muslim world against terrorist attacks.

I say it is time for the Muslims to be tolerant.