Storm Track Disinformation: 9/11 Brought America Closer to Islam

So…We’re attacked by self-identifying Muslims who follow the dictates of Islam and the end result is more acceptance of the religion? I wonder what this turkey is smoking in his hookah.

LAHORE: 9/11 has brought Americans closer to Islam, since the Americans started studying Islam after the bloody attacks and realised that Islam was a peaceful religion, said Walter Russell Mead on Saturday.

We did? Oh, of course. CAIR and President Bush, in one of his less lucid moments – said so.

The US foreign policy expert and Henry Kissinger Senior Fellow for the US Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations was speaking at Jamia Ashrafia on ‘The Influence of Religion on the US Foreign Policy’. Osama was not a true leader of Islam and his acts were against the teachings of Islam, he said. Mead said as far as war on terror was concerned, the American Muslims were not a problem, but a solution, since they could act as a bridge between Islam and West.

We’re still waiting for that bridge. Or is it a bridge moderate Muslims are trying to sell us?

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