From here:

The imam in the middle of the Ground Zero mosque controversy said Sunday he would never have picked that location if he knew it would create the conflict it did, but he has no plan to move the Islamic center from the proposed site two blocks from where the World Trade Center fell.

“I would never have done it. I’m a man of peace. I mean, the whole — the whole objective of peace work is not to do something that would provoke controversy,” said Imam Feisel Abdul Rauf.

This, of course, means that Rauf is either an idiot or a liar. I don’t think he is an idiot.