http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=140021Executing a plan to infiltrate America's newsrooms, a U.S. front for the radical Muslim Brotherhood has planted an agent inside ABC News.
A former official employed by the Council on American-Islamic Relations helped ABC News produce a story questioning the FBI in what CAIR has complained is a wrongful police shooting. FBI agents last October shot and killed a radical Detroit imam who was closely allied with CAIR board members.
CAIR is locked in an ongoing feud with the FBI since the bureau in 2008 cut off all formal ties to the group, despite its high political profile. A federal grand jury is actively hearing criminal evidence against CAIR emerging from a major terror finance case in which CAIR was named an unindicted co-conspirator.
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Since 9/11, no fewer than 15 CAIR executives and board members have been convicted or implicated in terror probes, including CAIR's founding chairman and acting executive director.
Sharaf Mowjood, former government-relations coordinator for CAIR's Los Angeles chapter, shares a byline on what critics say is a CAIR-manufactured story posted on ABC's website under the headline, Photos Raise Questions About Shooting of Cuffed Muslim Leader."
The story quotes the head of CAIR's Detroit office arguing that the Muslim cleric, Imam Luqman Abdullah, was not dangerous and that the FBI used excessive force while serving a warrant for his arrest.
In fact, Abdullah was killed only after refusing to surrender and firing his gun as FBI agents moved in. One of three shots fired from Abdullah's gun killed a police dog sent in to subdue him.
Agents were warned Abdullah was armed and dangerous based on recordings of his sermons, including one delivered in 2004 in which he instructed followers not to "carry a pistol if you're going to give it up to police.
You give them a bullet." He also yelled: "Police, so what? Police die too! Feds die too!"
In 2008, moreover, Luqman told an informant during a drive to Herndon, Va., that the FBI is the enemy of Islam, according to court records. "If they are coming to get me I'll strap a bomb on and blow up everybody," Luqman said.
He also advocated shooting "a cop in the head."
Abdullah had a rap sheet and had tried to kill an officer at least once before. According to court records, he struggled with an officer during a traffic stop and later told another officer, "I should have killed him."
These facts were missing from the ABC News story by the ex-CAIR official, who has also contributed articles to the New York Times.
The ABC story, in addition, quotes a CAIR attorney suggesting foul play was involved in the FBI shootout with Luqman.
It is not immediately known whether ABC News knew of Mowjood's former employment with the unindicted terrorist co-conspirator before assigning him the sensitive story, which also involves Luqman's son, who was affiliated with CAIR-Canada. A spokesman for the network could not be reached for comment.
But critics say the collaboration marks a new low in biased journalism.
The Investigative Project on Terrorism, for one, noted that ABC's piece merely parroted CAIR's beliefs without citing ballistics reports, for instance, which indicate Abdullah got off as many as three shots before he died.
IPT also observed that CAIR linked the ABC story to its website.
"Of all the stories written about the autopsy photographs," the counter-terror news service says, "the CAIR-Michigan homepage links to this one."
As a CAIR official, ABC's new reporter Mowjood was an aggressive advocate for Muslim Brotherhood causes. He lobbied on Capitol Hill and called on members of Congress to cease tying terrorism to Islam, among other things.
In 2008, for example, he coordinated a smear campaign against Rep. Ed Royce, R-Calif., for using the term "Islamic terrorists." He advised the congressman to adopt a new position by the Department of Homeland Security banning such terms.
"If Royce cares about preventing the next terrorist attack, maybe he should follow what the DHS says," Mowjood said.
Saudi-funded CAIR has been identified by federal prosecutors as a front for Hamas and its parent the Muslim Brotherhood. Prosecutors say CAIR conspired in a multimillion-dollar scheme to underwrite Hamas terrorists, who have murdered 17 Americans and injured more than 100 U.S. citizens.
According to the new bestselling book, "Muslim Mafia," which exposes CAIR and other Brotherhood fronts, CAIR hopes to train a legion of young journalists to infiltrate the nation's newsrooms to write favorable news reports and headlines about Islam and advance Muslim Brotherhood interests including rolling back post-9/11 security measures.
"Whenever I speak to Muslim groups, I urge students to become majors in journalism, law or political science," CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad has said. "Journalism is especially important, and we urge Muslim adults to establish scholarships in that field. Muslims must become active in the nation's offices where news reports and headlines are written."
According to CAIR insiders, CAIR Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper has privately boasted, "We own the media," and can manipulate the mainstream media into giving it positive press whenever it wants. Hooper holds media workshops teaching CAIR members and other Muslims how to influence media.
The Muslim Brotherhood maintains its own media as well, according to "Muslim Mafia."
The following publications are propaganda organs for the Muslim Brotherhood: Islamic Horizons; The American Muslim; The Muslim Link; Washington Report on Middle East Affairs and its sister publication, The Link; and the webzine Islamonline.net.
The Brotherhood also operates its own broadcasting network – Bridges TV – and Hollywood-style production company, SoundVision.
According to a secret 2007 CAIR "Strategy" memo cited in "Muslim Mafia," CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood have also set a goal to "have a direct influence on Hollywood."
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