I’m no Osama. Just ask my mama.
That’s the argument Brooklyn Imam Siraj Wahhaj made yesterday in an effort to prove that neither he nor the controversial Islamic subway-ad campaign he’s promoting has anything to do with terrorism.
“If she says I’m a terrorist, I am a terrorist,” Wahhaj said, calling his mother up to the microphone at a press conference at his Bedford-Stuyvesant mosque. “What do you say, Mom?”
Gloria Sage looked at her son, who was born Jeffrey Kearse, and dutifully said, “No way.”
Wahhaj blasted the Post for Monday’s front-page story about the ads, set to appear in 1,000 subway cars come September.
He conceded that his name appeared on a list of unindicted co-conspirators linked to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, that he has called the FBI and the CIA “the real terrorists,” and that he hopes all Americans will eventually be “persuaded” to become Muslim.
But, he added, he opposes killing innocent people and was never charged with a crime.
He also amended one remark.
“All FBI are not terrorists,” he said, adding, “I’m human. Criticize me, not Islam.”