{"id":1558,"date":"2002-08-02T01:05:27","date_gmt":"2002-08-02T06:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/?p=1558"},"modified":"2002-08-02T01:05:27","modified_gmt":"2002-08-02T06:05:27","slug":"zacarias_who_american_muslims_steer_clear_of_moussaoui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2002\/08\/zacarias_who_american_muslims_steer_clear_of_moussaoui\/","title":{"rendered":": Zacarias Who? American Muslims Steer Clear of Moussaoui"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">\n<tr>\n<td><img><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"right\">\n<div class=\"caption\"><\/div>\n<p><\/p><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>If Zacarias Moussaoui\u2019s erratic self defense\u2026 and paraphrasing of Hamlet in court (\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com%2Fwp-dyn%2Farticles%2FA2517-2002Jul25.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">to be or not to be<\/a>\u201c) \u2026is any indication of what\u2019s in store in the \u201c20th hijacker\u2019s\u201d historic court case, then it\u2019s easy to understand why American Muslims have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nandotimes.com%2Fnation%2Fstory%2F483984p-3865544c.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">steered clear<\/a> of supporting him (not unlike fellow defendant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.altmuslim.com%2Fwar_comments.php%3Fid%3DP281_0_14_0_C%26which%3Dwar\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">John Walker Lindh<\/a>). \u201cEven if he had a jury of 12 Arab-Americans, I don\u2019t think he gets a more sympathetic hearing from our community,\u201d says Hussein Ibish of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adc.org\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">ADC<\/a>. \u201cThere is just no sympathy, none at all.\u201d Moussaoui has filed over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nandotimes.com%2Fnation%2Fstory%2F486029p-3878698c.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">100 motions<\/a>, ranging from testifying before Congress to dismissing his court-appointed \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.voanews.com%2Farticle.cfm%3FobjectID%3D72DF6F79-AE63-47B7-8F358A393A963CC0%26title%3DMoussaoui%2520Lawyers%2520Say%2520He%2520is%2520Mentally%2520Ill%26catOID%3D45C9C78F-88AD-11D4-A57200A0CC5EE46C\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">hordes of blood suckers<\/a>\u201d (er\u2026 lawyers), save for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com%2Ftexassouthwest%2Fcolumnists%2Fstories%2F062402dntexnotes.88b84.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">one he trusts<\/a> (with credibility problems of his own). All this follows his hapless <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nandotimes.com%2Fnation%2Fstory%2F477673p-3816206c.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">guilty plea<\/a> reversal, his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com%2F2002%2FLAW%2F07%2F02%2Fmoussaoui.case%2Findex.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">praise for Osama bin Laden<\/a>, and other <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com%2Farticles%2F65977.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">crazy antics<\/a>. And although the US government is eager to make a case of Moussaoui (with the help of his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com%2F2002%2FLAW%2F07%2F24%2Fmoussaoui.friend.ap%2Findex.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">ex-roommate<\/a>), the FBI denies his charges of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miami.com%2Fmld%2Fmiami%2Fnews%2Fpolitics%2F3766118.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">watching him<\/a> before the 9\/11 attacks (well, shouldn\u2019t they have been?). \u201cHe is just so outrageous in his statements that no one wants to be associated with him,\u201d adds Ingrid Mattson, vice-president of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isna.net\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">ISNA<\/a>. Commenting on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer.co.uk%2Finternational%2Fstory%2F0%2C6903%2C764572%2C00.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">cause<\/a> of her son\u2019s behavior, Moussaoui\u2019s mother added, \u201cBritish imams\u2026 are a very bad influence on young Muslims. The British Government has a responsibility for allowing such people to preach hatred and extremism in public places like mosques. It has nothing to do with real Islam. It is false.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Shahed Amanullah is editor-in-chief of altmuslim.com.\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With antics that are &#8220;like a &#8216;Saturday Night Live&#8217; parody&#8221;, alleged al-Qaida operative Zacarias Moussaoui isn&#8217;t getting any help from American Muslims (or himself, for that matter).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":530,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-briefings"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>: Zacarias Who? 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