Ground Zero Imam says US has more blood on its hands than Al Qaeda--2005

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• Ground Zero Mosque Imam speaks on July 12, 2005 at a Prime Ministerial Centre Public Lecture in Australia.

"“We tend to forget, in the West, that the United States has more Muslim blood on its hands than al-Qaeda has on its hands of innocent non Muslims…

“What complicates the discussion, intra-Islamically, is the fact that the West has not been cognizant and has not addressed the issues

• of its own contribution to much injustice in the Arab and Muslim world.” "-Feisal Abdul Rauf, 2005

(Imam Rauf speaks very softly requiring listeners to strain to hear him. In my experience, this kind of behavior is favored by passive-aggressive persons. ed.)

• via Big Peace and PamelaGeller.com, via Michael Savage show
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Reference, 2004, Ground Zero Imam Rauf says US must acknowledge harm it has done to Islam before terrorism can end:

• 3/21/04, "West must act to end jihad: Imam (Feisal Rauf)," Sydney Morning Herald (Aus.), by Frank Walker

"The US and the West must acknowledge the harm they have done to Muslims

• before terrorism can end, says an Islamic cleric invited to Sydney by Premier Bob Carr.

New York-based Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, who impressed Mr Carr at an international conference last year, arrives in Sydney today for two weeks of meetings and public talks.

Speaking from his New York mosque, Imam Feisal said

• the West had to understand
  
• the terrorists' point of view.

In a move likely to cause controversy with church leaders, Imam Feisal said it was

• Christians who started mass attacks on civilians.

"The Islamic method of waging war is not to kill innocent civilians. But it was Christians in World War II who bombed civilians in Dresden and Hiroshima, neither of which were military targets."

Imam Feisal said the bombing in Madrid had made his message more urgent. He said there was

• an endless supply of angry young Muslim rebels prepared to die for their cause

• and there was no sign of the attacks ending

• unless there was a fundamental change in the world.

Imam Feisal, who argues for a Western style of Islam that promotes democracy and tolerance, said there could be little progress

• until the US acknowledged backing dictators and

• the US President gave an "America Culpa" speech to the Muslim world.

His major talks will be at noon on April 1 at St Mary's Cathedral with Cardinal George Pell and Mr Carr, and a public lecture at 6pm at the Wesley Centre in Pitt Street."

People hanging out of windows of World Trade Center and about to die, 9/11/01