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""We find that maybe 4,000 people died in the World Trade Center. That was an injustice.

"But isn't it an injustice to have two million people killed in Iraq over 10 years?" he asked, referring to the Gulf War and a subsequent trade embargo blamed by many Muslims for causing starvation."

There's that 'but' again. Always with a 'but'. 9/11 can never be unconditionally blasted by these idiots, they have to throw in a 'but'..

2 million now? How the hell did 2 million die from sanctions? I thought it was 1 million, and even that number was complete make-believe. Next, it'll be 50 million islamics that the US kills daily.

Screw these guys. I can only HOPE that we start killing that many daily!

There's that 'but' again. Always with a 'but'.

Why, this article's just chock full of 'buts':

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Sept. 11 was a terrible human "tragedy" but it also had the effect of exposing millions of people around the globe to the true teachings of the Islamic faith

Mr. Niaj expressed sadness over the immense loss of human life wrought by the terrorist attacks a year ago. But he criticized how many people in western nations have cast the U.S.-led military campaign against Afghanistan, and the seemingly imminent assault on Iraq, as battles of good against evil.

The imam did not mention Afghanistan or Iraq, but made a brief reference to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

"Muslims had wisdom and strength in the past, but these days we beg the United Nations and the United States to stop the Israeli aggression against the Palestinians,"

"Muslims should support the weak whether he or she is a Muslim or not. The clearest example of the weak who should be supported now are the Palestinians," he said. "I am not talking about Palestinians in particular, but I am taking them as an example to remind people of the principles of Islam," he added.

"I believe most Arabs do not approve and have condemned the attacks. Islam is against such violence and against targeting civilians in war. We all know that from the history of Islam. But also," he added, "I wish people around the world would think about why these men killed themselves."

"We condemn what happened, but we, as Muslims, suffered as a result of that incident,"

Imam Shaadam Sherif condemned the Sept. 11 attack as terrorism against innocent people, saying true followers of Islam are not terrorists. But Mr. Sherif said more people have died in Iraq from Western attacks and in Palestine at the hands of Israel. He suggested that violence is also terrorism because it kills innocents.

He said Allah sets out a principle of freedom and justice that does not allow for innocents to die by violence. "Those who truly follow Islam are not terrorists." But there is a misconception in the West that they are terrorists, he said, speaking in Arabic through an interpreter.

"We find that maybe 4,000 people died in the World Trade Center. That was an injustice. "But isn't it an injustice to have two million people killed in Iraq over 10 years?" he asked, referring to the Gulf War and a subsequent trade embargo blamed by many Muslims for causing starvation.

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So many 'buts'. There is no author credit given, but from the number of 'buts' in here I'll go out on a limb and guess that it was written by some Muslim 'but'-muncher...