Mass-murdering Iranian faux moderate Mohammad Khatami (granted a visa in one of the stupidest moves by our government in recent history) spoke at the convention of Wahhabist front group Islamic Society of North America yesterday in Chicago, and predictably blamed Islamic terrorism on the United States: Khatami: US policies trigger terrorism.

Former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami said Saturday that US foreign policy triggers terrorism and violence in the world, but American Muslims can play a key role in promoting peace and security.

In his first public appearances during a nearly two-week visit to the United States, Khatami spoke twice in the Chicago area. He is the most senior Iranian official to visit the United States since Islamic fundamentalists seized the US Embassy in Tehran in 1979 and held Americans hostage for 444 days.

“As America claims to be fighting terrorism, it implements policies that cause the intensification of terrorism and institutionalized violence,” Khatami said at the Islamic Society of North America’s 43rd annual convention.

Speaking through a translator, Khatami told tens of thousands of Muslims at the meeting that there is a chronic misunderstanding between the West and the East that goes back to the Crusades and continues today. He said American Muslims “through active participation in the social arena” can form lobbying groups and form a consensus with other Americans.

“Public opinion can be rescued from the grips of ignorance and blunder and the domination of arrogant, warmongering and violence-triggering policies will end,” he said.

Khatami called the United States “a great nation” and said that as president of Iran he was among the first world leaders to condemn the September 11 attacks as a barbaric act. “I knew this inferno would only intensify extremism and one-sidedness and would have no outcome except to retard justice and intellect and sacrifice righteousness and humanity,” he said.

This is a tour to spread radical Islamic propaganda, and our own government is enabling it. It’s hard to imagine any strategy on the part of the US that could yield enough benefit to justify this incredible display of weakness and lack of resolution—because that’s how this will be perceived in Iran and most of the Islamic world. And it will greatly embolden the radicals and their front groups inside the US as well.