Joining the growing chorus of hysterical right-wing pundits desperately trying to find something - anything -- that demonstrates Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf is outside of the mainstream, Bill O'Reilly took to his Fox News show tonight to announce that we have to “stop the nonsense about Imam Rauf” being a moderate Muslim, because he is “no friend to America.”

Why did O'Reilly resort to such harsh rhetoric? Because Imam Rauf, who found himself in O'Reilly's sights for proposing an Islamic cultural center blocks from Ground Zero said shortly this shortly after 9-11:

RAUF: I wouldn't say the United States deserved what happened [on 9-11], but the United States' policies were an accessory to the crime that happened.

Now it should be noted that Imam Rauf has not only widely been described a moderate, but has also reportedly denounced terrorism and even worked with the Bush administration's FBI and State Departments on counter-terrorism. But for O'Reilly that doesn't matter, because “believ[ing] that the U.S. has been an accessory to intentionally taking American lives... is an anti-American point of view.”

Well, then perhaps O'Reilly should focus his ire at Glenn Beck, because -- as Jon Stewart hilariously highlighted -- Beck said much the same thing last April:

BECK: When people said they hate us, well, did we deserve 9-11? No. But were we minding our business? No. Were we in bed with dictators and abandoned our values and principles? Yes. That causes problems.

While Beck himself objects to the comparison, the best rationale he came up with basically boiled-down to: “It is NOT the same... you're mean!” So if O'Reilly is serious, and not just grasping at any excuse to claim that his opposition to the Islamic center isn't anti-Muslim, he should focus his next “anti-American” witch hunt inside his own building.