Rauf's apologetics for jihadist mass murderers
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One of the most prominent things that Feisal Abdul Rauf conveniently omits in the first statement is that al Qaeda is but one part of a much wider network of Islamist groups that have killed exponentially more Muslims AND non-Muslims than the number of fatalities in Iraq that Rauf disingenuously blames on the United States (instead of Saddam's Tikriti mafia). Given Rauf's association with individuals and groups connected to the jihadist Muslim Brotherhood, his dissembling should come as no surprise.

As was the case in Rauf's statements in his post-9/11 interview with Ed Bradley on "60 Minutes", this is a classic case of terrorist apologetics intended to provide moral and political cover for jihadist mass murderers. Potentially more troubling is that his statements could be read as a Muslim religious authority legalizing, in Islamic terms, AQ's actions on September 11, 2001 by presenting the attacks as a legitimate form of jihad.

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