American Weirdness du jour: More Americans imagine that Obama is Muslim

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also this from the hentoff article is hardly controversial:

"Are you in any way suggesting that we in the United States deserved what happened?" Bradley asked.

"I wouldn't say that the United States deserved what happened," Rauf answered, "but the United States' policies were an accessory to the crime that happened. ... Because (the United States has) been an accessory to a lot of - of innocent lives dying in the world. In fact, it - in the most direct sense, Osama bin Laden is made in the U.S.A."

he is not saying that 9/11 was deserved or just, but a reaction to the US's heavy-handed interventionist policies in the region

note that as a Sufi his mosque would be at risk of attack by fundamentalists in many Muslim countries, as the sect is considered liberal and heterodox

http://www.youtube.com/v/QTm9t2_npOs&feature=player_embedded