Matt Taibbi Uses Rediscover911 To Smear Movement

The instant this Mosque fiasco turned into a full-blown media circus it became clear that the Truthers had to come up with some sort of position on the matter. From their point of view, of course, there’s nothing terribly offensive about putting a Mosque at Ground Zero because, after all, the Muslims and al Qaeda had nothing to do with 9/11. Instead it was George Bush, Dick Cheney, the CIA, the Mossad, the Council of Foreign Relations and whoever else was hanging out behind the conspiratorial curtain.

Thus the consensus Truther view toward the GZ Mosque ranges from indifference to support to something a little beyond support. I had this letter from Rediscover911.com forwarded to me last night, an open letter to Mayor Bloomberg entitled “Build a Mega-Mosque ON Ground Zero to Atone for 9/11 Inside job!”

The author is a Truther and former Fullbright scholar from Wisconsin named Kevin Barrett who at one point was a professor at UW but left amid controversy over his lunatic-ass views. (I love the fact that the last course he was scheduled to teach at Wisconsin was on The Canterbury Tales). Barrett starts out by pointing out the huge percentages of the worldwide Muslim population believe 9/11 was an inside job, then adds that the Mosque should be turned into a kind of museum of American treachery.

More information and a critical view of Rediscover911 can be found here.

To view the original site with added commentary have a look at the counter site Rediscover911.org.