With tension mounting over plans to build a mosque and Islamic community center near Ground Zero, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the project’s prime mover, said yesterday he’s considering delaying the venture over the controversy.

“Our advisers have been looking at every option, including that,” Rauf said during an appearance at the Council on Foreign Relations on the Upper East Side, where he delivered a speech and took questions from the think tank’s audience.

Rauf’s statement was in response to a question from audience member Kathwari M. Farooq, chairman of the Ethan Allen furniture company, who asked if it wasn’t a good idea to put the project on hold to allow for more discussion.

“We are exploring all options as we speak right now, and we are working through what will be a solution, God willing, that will resolve this crisis, defuse it and not create any unforeseen or untoward circumstances that we do not want to see happen,” he said.

Meanwhile, a spokesman for the developers of the Park51 project yesterday responded to a report in The Post revealing that another imam who partnered with Rauf to form one of his advocacy groups believes that 9/11 was an “inside job.”

“Park51 had no knowledge of the insensitive and misguided views that Faiz Khan holds about those who were responsible for 9/11,” the spokesman said, adding, “Khan will no longer be invited back to lead prayers at the mosque.”

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(Source: NY Post)