Iran Watch: The CAIR Khamai Reception

Former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami speaks during a dinner sponsored by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in Arlington, Virginia. US President George W. Bush disclosed that he had personally signed off on granting a US visa to Khatami.

Al-Reuters: Iran’s Khatami says suicide bombers hurt Islam

Former Iranian President Mohammed Khatami on Friday condemned the September 11 attacks against the United States as an atrocity and said suicide bombers did Islam an injustice and would not go to heaven.

Three days before the fifth anniversary of the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people, the Shi’ite cleric urged Muslims to work against “Islamaphobia,” which he said had grown since Islamic militants flew hijacked aircraft into the World Trade Center, the
Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field.

Two crimes were committed on September 11 — civilians were killed and it was done in the name of Islam, Khatami told the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a human rights group.

“We Muslims should condemn these atrocities even more strongly,” he said.

“Terrorist, which means killing of civilians, is a human being that lacks morality … (and) will not go to heaven” and those who do it in the name of Islam “are lying,” he said.

How do you spell “WHITEWASH?”

Khatami is a senior propagandist for the Iranian MULLAHS. His sanitized speech in order to appear “MODERATE” is a joke. Actions speak louder than words and when he was Iran’s President he did NOTHING to stem the tide of radical Islam.

And President Bush has been listening to Nicholas Burns over at Foggy Bottom again. Did Condoleezza Rice sign off on Khatami’s visa before it traveled to the President?

Flap wonders if the denizens of Harvard Yard will have the STONES to call out Khatami on his tenure as Iran President and the direction of Iran under Ahmadinejad?

Doubtful…….
Flap, though, has a question for Khatami: Do you condemn President Ahmadinejad for his statement that Israel should be wiped off the face of the earth?

Stay tuned…….

Former President of Iran Mohammad Khatami (bottom L) speaks at the National Cathedral in Washington September 7, 2006. Listening are Reverend Samuel Lloyd (top R), Dean of the National Cathedral, and an unidentified interpreter (top L).

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