Mayor Bloomberg’s ‘outreach’ idiocy
Mayor Bloomberg on Wednesday hosted at City Hall an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
Astounding.
Brooklyn imam Siraj Wahhaj, who’s also called FBI and CIA agents “terrorists” and testified at trial in the defense of convicted terror-plotter Omar Abdel Rahman, was one of several Muslim leaders hosted by Bloomberg to discuss a feared anti-Muslim backlash after the Fort Hood killings last week.
To be sure, Mike said yesterday that, had he known about Wahhaj’s background, he wouldn’t have invited him.
But he STILL defended the invitation.
Wahhaj “is the leader of a large mosque,” he said. “We’re going to reach out to everybody. I don’t care what their background is. We do not want to have people in this city who feel that they are so estranged from the community that they start fighting the community.”
But if federal prosecutors are to be believed, Wahhaj has been “fighting the community” for decades.