In his widely quoted memorial address for Daniel Pearl at an Upper West Side synagogue, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf said, “not only today I am a Jew, I have always been one.” But that’s only the part that’s getting all the attention. 

Rauf, of course, is the man behind the proposed Ground Zero mosque. He’s recently come under further scrutiny, mainly because of his controversial project, that’s revealed certain immoderate statements from the imam. Daniel Pearl was a Wall Street Journal journalist who was murdered by Islamist extremists Pakistan.