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Promoting what it means to be muslim but what it also means to be american. and that is the real message that needs to get out. >> laura: asimulating muslims to the american way of life? rejecting extremism? it t. all sounded like the islamic reformation that we needed in america. in the ensuing months we all discovered that there is a lot more to the story, including incendiary comments from ms. khans husband. listen to this interview he did with 60 minutes after september 11th. >> are you in a...

>> reporter: and while all the imams speeches and writings are now being looked over word by word, one is often overlooked. the imam eulogized daniel pearl at his funeral, asking forgiveness for whats been done in the name of islam. sharyn alfonsi, abc news, new york. former president jimmy carter travels to north korea today on a humanitarian mission. mr. carter is expected to negotiate the freedom of an american who was arrested in north korea back in january. that man was sentenced to eight...

An apology. we already know that maybe in this speech he didnt say that the u.s. was culpable for the attacks on 9/11 but hes said before that he believes that the united states is culpable for these eye tax and osama bin laden was made in the usa. megyn: i want to clarify -- >> didnt he give him funds in afghanistan. megyn: let me jump in. he said i wont say the united states deserved what happened on 9/11, but the u.s. policies were an accessory to the crime. and that was in a september 2001 i...

Minutes or 30 seconds and ask the question does this sound moderate? well, that portion of what you just said may not but then many other things, you know, it does not headline who he is. what headlines who he is is the 30 plus years of moderate behavior. not just words that he has essentially led the muslim community n terms of interfaith work. in terms of intracultural work. right now he is in the middle east speaking to muslims in muslim countries talking about america and american values. in...

Promoting what it means to be muslim but what it also means to be american. and that is the real message that needs to get out. >> laura: asimulating muslims to the american way of life? rejecting extremism? it t. all sounded like the islamic reformation that we needed in america. in the ensuing months we all discovered that there is a lot more to the story, including incendiary comments from ms. khans husband. listen to this interview he did with 60 minutes after september 11th. >> are you in a...

Promoting what it means to be muslim but what it also means to be american. and that is the real message that needs to get out. >> laura: asimulating muslims to the american way of life? rejecting extremism? it t. all sounded like the islamic reformation that we needed in america. in the ensuing months we all discovered that there is a lot more to the story, including incendiary comments from ms. khans husband. listen to this interview he did with 60 minutes after september 11th. >> are you in a...

Minutes or 30 seconds and ask the question does this sound moderate? well, that portion of what you just said may not but then many other things, you know, it does not headline who he is. what headlines who he is is the 30 plus years of moderate behavior. not just words that he has essentially led the muslim community n terms of interfaith work. in terms of intracultural work. right now he is in the middle east speaking to muslims in muslim countries talking about america and american values. in...

Only people he gave a heads up on is mayor bloomberg. a lot of people because its such a political hot potato say could you give me a heads up? thats why some came out against it and maybe he didnt anticipate this kind of blow back. daisy khan, the wife of the imam behind the mosque and many people think daisy is the person who pushes her husband to do the mosque in this location on park place, she commented on what the president -- excuse me, what the imam said after the 9/11 attacks. first you...

White house, every week i would say on friday night, next week has got to be better than this week and rarely was. but i think that the white house now, this is 10 days on since president obama first made his comments and yesterday, the imams wife, she defended her husbands comments and a lot of people have heard that he has said that the u.s. was an accessory to 9/11 and she -- she defended him on the show yesterday. i think we have a soundbite. >> we do. >> i wouldnt say that the united states...

One thing could be radical. the moderate is that islam will be recognized as an american-based religion. the ground zero mosque is the to going to be helpful because it has divided americans and even divided muslim americans and muslims around the world and the other dimension is more serious. the islam movement and jihadist movement would leak to have influence, political influence and determine what sort of national policy we would have. because of that, the controversy of the mosque and imam ...