A Note on MPAC's Uncritical Support of 'The 9/11

Commission Report'
by Enver Masud
Last Sunday, I had the opportunity to ask a representative of the Muslim Public
Affairs Council (MPAC) whether or not they believed the principal conclusion of
"The 9/11 Commission Report" that 19 Arab hijackers led by Osama Bin Laden
were responsible for the attacks of September 11, 2001.
After some evasion, the answer I got from Alejandro J. Beutel, MPAC's
Government Liaison, was that MPAC supports the U.S. government's position on
9/11. Further conversation revealed how little homework MPAC has done on
what is arguably the biggest issue of the decade for Muslims whom MPAC
professes to represent.
I informed Mr. Beutel that there's overwhelming evidence that the official account
of 9/11 is false, and a significant number of Americans do not believe "The 9/11
Commission Report". Among them are 220 senior military, intelligence, law
enforcement, and government personnel; 1200 architects and engineers; 250 pilots
and aviation personnel; 400 professors; 300 survivors of 9/11, and these numbers
keep growing.
Mr. Beutel's response was that he had read my book "9/11 Unveiled", as well as
the Popular Mechanics, "peer-reviewed" [sic] article -- presumably "Debunking
the 9/11 Myths: Special Report" published in February 2005.
Popular Mechanics articles are not peer-reviewed, and their 9/11 article has been
throughly debunked -- most notably by David Ray Griffin in his book
"Debunking 9/11 Debunking: An Answer to Popular Mechanics and Other
Defenders of the Official Conspiracy Theory".
Following the publication of this article, it was revealed that the senior researcher
for the article was Benjamin Chertoff -- cousin of Michael Chertoff, Secretary of
the Department of Homeland Security.
Some would say that Mr. Chertoff may be "a person of interest" in any real
investigation of 9/11 which "The 9/11 Commission Report" is not.
According to Philip Shenon, an investigative reporter with The New York Times,
a detailed outline of "The 9/11 Commission Report" complete with "chapter
headings, subheadings, and sub-subheadings" had been prepared with the
commission's staff barely in place ("The Commission: The Uncensored History of
the 9/11 Investigation," 2008, p389).
This clearly is not how investigations are conducted.
When I asked Mr. Beutel if he had read the NIST reports, he responded he had
read the NTSB [sic] report, and asked if I had read it.
I replied I had searched the NIST reports, and found enough to debunk the report:
(1) NIST did not validate the model, (2) NIST adjusted inputs to get the output
they desired, (3) NIST admitted they did NOT model the collapse itself (they
modeled the immediate period prior to initiation of collapse).
Mr. Beutel's response was that since I had not read the entire report I was taking
sentences "things out of context" like some do with the Quran.
I guess Mr. Beutel did not realize that for the Quran to be properly understood one
must study its entire message. In science and mathematics, all it takes is one flaw
in fact or logic to debunk the entire conclusion.
It quickly became obvious that MPAC was not interested in the facts about 9/11
or else they would have done much more research, and called in experts to
explain what they are clearly not qualified to understand -- for example the peer-
reviewed paper by Niels H. Harrit, et al, "Active Thermitic Material Discovered
in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe" published in The Open
Chemical Physics Journal, that I mailed to Mr. Beutel after the meeting.
Niels H. Harrit, et al, found "unreacted thermitic material" in the dust of the
World Trade Center indicating the use of rare and highly sophisticated explosives
-- something that more than 100 firefighters testified to, and which were reported
by mainstream news media on 9/11.
When I asked Mr. Beutel how many members did MPAC have, he replied that
they have a mailing list of 10,000. As best we can tell MPAC has donors based
primarily in Southern California, and probably represents their position -- not that
of American Muslims at large.
The discussion with Mr. Beutel occurred at the monthly Chai Time held in the
Potomac Community Center in Maryland. It is attended mostly by members of the
Pakistani community. I was the featured speaker at the launching of Chai Time by
Rashid and Bano Makhdoom on February 4, 2001.
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What Really Happened on September 11, 2001

Enver Masud, "Fear Paralyzes U.S. Muslim 'Leaders'," The Wisdom Fund, August 3, 2010