On October 31, 2001, [New Black Panther Party leader] Shabazz was joined at the National Press Club by several Muslim clerics, including Imam Mohammad al-Asi, who claims to be associated with the Islamic Center of Washington, D.C. (In fact, the Islamic Center denies any connection to al-Asi). Al-Asi echoed Shabazz's statements on the U.S. and Israel, claiming that, "The twin evils in this world are the decision makers in Washington and the decision makers in Tel Aviv."

He also accused Israel of carrying out the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center, and claimed that Israeli officials decided to launch the attack after the U.S. refused their request to put down the Palestinian intifada. "If we're not going to be secure, neither are you," was the Israelis' thinking, according to al-Asi. "Ever since you fabricated the racist state of Israel in our Holy Land, you have caused that intrusion to recruit millions of Muslims in the world against you."

Al-Asi also gave three "facts" proving Israel's "macro-managing" of the events. He asked, "Why were people on Wall Street, why were those people frantically selling airline and insurance shares in the days before September 11?" Al-Asi claimed that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon "was supposed to come to the U.S. on September 11, and he didn't make his appearance here … . Did he know something the rest of us didn't know?"

Al-Asi asked, "Where were the 4,000 to 5,000 Israeli Jews that were supposed to be in those two buildings on the 11th, and after the dust settled, why can they only confirm one dead and two injured? Did they know something we didn't know? Why didn't they go to work? Where were those 5,000 and why are you covering up these facts?" ...

The Institute of Contemporary Islamic Thought (ICIT) is an international intellectual centre of the global Islamic movement, run by movement activists and intellectuals based in various parts of the world...

...The aim of the movement is to re-establish Islam as a source of power and justice in all Muslim countries, and throughout the world. At its broadest level, the sole aim of the Institute of Contemporary Islamic Thought (ICIT) is to contribute to the work of the global Islamic movement as best we can...

...The Institute of Contemporary Islamic Thought (ICIT) was established in 1998 to continue the work begun by the late Dr Kalim Siddiqui (1931-1996), who was Director of the Muslim Institute, London.

Dr Kalim Siddiqui worked to 'generate an intellectual revolution in Muslim political thought'. After the Islamic Revolution in Iran, he set about studying, understanding and promoting the political thinking of the new, global Islamic movement inspired by the [Khomeinist] Islamic Revolution...