By Andrew L. Jaffee

Not only does the Arab/Muslim world have a problem with violence, but it also does with facing stark reality. How much denial can there be amongst Muslims? Iranian President Ahmadinejad has reiterated his Holocaust denial several times. Canadian Muslims refused to believe that their young people plotted to blow up Toronto. British Muslims blamed the UK’s policies for a plot to bomb airliners. The list goes on… Today, Mohammed Atta’s father, whose son was a 9/11 ring-leader, is displaying the same willful ignorance, projection, and denial:

The father of Mohammed Atta, the leader of the September 11 hijackers, says a video published by the British daily The Sunday Times, showing Atta 20 months before the Twin Towers attacks, is false. “The video-testament of my son is false and I continue to believe he is innocent” Muhammad al-Amir al-Sayd Atta, 71, told Saudi daily al-Watan. “The Americans tampered with and falsified that video” he alleged, ” they want to change the truth in order to achieve their goals in the Middle East.”

Atta senior, who keeps a photo of his suicide attacker son in the hallway of his home just outside of Cairo, said: “There is a big difference between this photo and the images shown by the Americans - that one is not my boy.”

The British newspaper said the hourlong tape was obtained “through a previously tested channel,” and had been authenticated, on condition of anonymity, by sources from al-Qaeda and the United States.

Atta, who flew one of the planes that brought down the World Trade Center, appears alongside Ziad al-Jarrah, who piloted United Airlines flight 93, which crashed into a Pennsylvania field.

A picture is worth a thousand words:

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Related: Arab/Muslim World, Islam, War Against Islamo-fascism

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