[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.]
On the 29 September 2014 edition of Fox News's Hannity, Islamist cleric Anjem Choudary accused the Western media and Blackwater of framing ISIS for the atrocities that the terrorist group has freely admitted to. When host Sean Hannity raised the beheading of a British aid worker, Choudary contended that "the information that we received...is very biased....I don't take my news from Fox News or the BBC. If you look at the people on the ground, I think you'll find that they have a completely different story. The Christians and Jews are living quite peacefully, in fact, in the Islamic State."
When Hannity later noted that "suicide bombers...go into open marketplaces and blow themselves up, and there are people there that are non-political that get killed," the British imam proposed a conspiracy theory:
ANJEM CHOUDARY, LONDON IMAM: This is just not the reality. You know, if you look, for example, at the marketplaces – which are bombed in Afghanistan and Pakistan – usually, you find it's Blackwater – you know, some American company – the – the ISI of Pakistan – who are killing innocent people, and then, blaming the Taliban. There's nothing called suicide in Islam. There's something called using your body, sometimes, on the battlefield – you know, against the enemy.