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CNN denies it faked Muslim anti-terror demo in London despite clear video evidence

Jun 6, 2017 8:04 am By Robert Spencer

An update on this story: clearly CNN supervised and oversaw this event, and the video quite clearly shows them doing so. A CNN spokesman, however, denies it: “This story is nonsense. The group of demonstrators that was at the police cordon was being allowed through by officers so they could show their signs to the gathered media.” At the beginning of the video, the CNN announcer is clearly directing the protestors on where to set up. The only police visible are walking away, while two others are acting as props in the scene.

“Mohammad Raza of the London Fatwa Council, who took part in the demonstration, told MailOnline suggestions the event was staged were ‘completely false’. He said: ‘Nothing was set up. We all decided to go down there.'”

I’m sure they did. That is not at issue. What is at issue is the timing and the placement. CNN was clearly looking for and wanting to highlight Muslims who were against terrorism, and stage-managed their presentation for maximum effect. This is a quintessential example of the “fake news” phenomenon: when we were holding rallies against the proposed Ground Zero victory mosque in lower Manhattan, we never got any help on staging from CNN, and would not have expected any. Then, if the establishment media reported on our rallies at all, they misreported our crowds of 10,000 and 20,000 as 500 and 1,000, without running any video that would have shown the falsehood of their claims. But when a demonstration like this one that fits their narrative comes along, they do everything they can to depict it as larger and more important than it really was. CNN and the rest of the establishment media is not in the business of reporting news, but of presenting propaganda designed to manipulate people into accepting their Leftist political line.

“CNN reporter is caught up in ‘fake news’ row after being accused of ‘setting up’ a Muslim counter-terror protest,” by Richard Spillett, MailOnline, June 5, 2017:

CNN has denied online claims that it ‘set up’ a counter-extremism demonstration behind one of its reporters.

A group from the London Fatwa Council came to the police cordon near the London Bridge terror attacks with banners proclaiming ‘ISIS will lose’ yesterday afternoon.

But a video which emerged of the group apparently being positioned by TV reporters led to claims online that the channel was ‘creating a narrative’.

The video shows the group being ushered past the media and positioned so that cameras can see them.

A film shot by a bystander shows a group of protesters being brought past TV crews in London

Reporter Becky Anderson mentioned the protesters’ signs in her news report on the terror attack.

She said: ‘Behind me you can see a sign here, hashtag ‘turn to love”, hashtag ‘for London’, hashtag ‘ISIS will lose’, and flowers left in remembrance of those who left their lives.’

She called the demonstrators a ‘poignant scene’ and urged the camera to pause on them to viewers ‘how people feel here on the streets of London’.

The man who filmed the footage, a Twitter user called @markantro, tweeted: ‘CNN creating the narrative #FakeNews’

His video was shared more than 14,000 times on the social network and liked more than 16,000 times.

The man who filmed the footage, who describes himself as an ‘AnarchoCapitalist’, claimed white police officers left the protest scene around the time news crews were filming, leaving minority officers visible – another example, he claimed, of the footage being staged.

Former US diplomat Richard Grenell also retweeted the video, with the caption: ‘This is very disturbing.’

Both CNN and the demonstrators vehemently deny that anything was staged.

They insisted the same scene was filmed by other broadcasters, including the BBC and ITV, who had positioned themselves at the police cordon.

A CNN spokesman said: ‘This story is nonsense. The group of demonstrators that was at the police cordon was being allowed through by officers so they could show their signs to the gathered media.

According to its website, the London Fatwa Council is a charity set up to offer legal advice ‘in accordance with Islamic law’.

The website states: ‘It acts as a voice for women silenced by violent, abusive and forced marriages.

The group says it is trying to build dialogue between faiths in and around Barnet.

‘The CNN crew along with other media present simply filmed them doing so.’

Mohammad Raza of the London Fatwa Council, who took part in the demonstration, told MailOnline suggestions the event was staged were ‘completely false’.

He said: ‘Nothing was set up. We all decided to go down there. We are members of a faith foundation which includes Jewish, Christian and Muslim members.

‘We went down there on our own initiative to lay flowers at the scene.’

He insisted any actions by TV crews was their own concern and his group had not been told what to do….

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  1. Jaladhi says

    Jun 6, 2017 at 8:47 am

    These brain dead CNNers think everybody else is also brain dead – which is true in case of lefty liberals!

    • Gea says

      Jun 7, 2017 at 7:42 pm

      Who is paying all these “reporters” of the politically correct main stream media to lie and cover up for Islamic IDEOLOGY which is the ROOT cause of terrorism.

      Saudis and other oil sheikhs that had also paid millions of kosherize Isla and bamboozle Jews that fell for those lies had paid US academia to spread lies about Islam, which is worse than Nazism.

      • billdeserthills says

        Jun 7, 2017 at 11:55 pm

        Let’s not forget about george soros & his pals too

  2. mortimer says

    Jun 6, 2017 at 9:01 am

    Video-camera evidence cannot be overturned by denials, no matter how enthusiastic they may be.

    • SK says

      Jun 7, 2017 at 11:52 am

      May as well just call it a photoshoot or videoshoot or something.

  3. Echo says

    Jun 6, 2017 at 9:03 am

    Britain – the new Lebanon

  4. Keith says

    Jun 6, 2017 at 10:52 am

    Why were the police letting demonstrators through their cordon. What was the need aren’t the tv cameras capable of turning round to film the demonstrators behind them? That would have been a more realistic scenario.

  5. Faak says

    Jun 6, 2017 at 12:20 pm

    Oh well, CNN has been caught before doing fake interviews; here with their own cameraman posing as a ‘normal’ protestor
    https://youtu.be/eOCcRnvMPEU

  6. somehistory says

    Jun 6, 2017 at 3:06 pm

    Why did they allow the people behind the line? Is there no writing on the tape, informing the public to not cross it?

    These poor excuses for reporters forgot: A picture is worth a thousand words.
    Lie and deny, but the video has the evidence.

  7. Stan Lee says

    Jun 6, 2017 at 10:48 pm

    CNN has been involved in suspicious activities since I became aware that CNN was the single American “news reporting” service in Baghdad at the time of the first American-led UN vs. Saddam Hussein military action resulting from Saddam’s military invasion and terrorizing of Kuwait, with intention of annexing Kuwait to become part of Iraq,which would mean grabbing Kuwait’s oil fields too.
    The network had made a deal with the Saddam-Iraqi government and was allowed special status, while all other news services were given short notice to get out of Iraq. In return, CNN was allowed to report to the world from the rooftop of the posh hotel in which it was staying. This was exclusive to CNN.
    It reported how Iraqi civilians suffered “indiscriminate bombing” by the USAF, while Saddam had placed Iraqi civilians in the various Baghdad locations where Iraqi military planning and communications coordinated with Iraqi units in the field and Kuwait..When the USAF bombed those strategic locations, it was discovered that the locations had been converted to dual usage, daytime it was military, while at night the same locations were used as “safe buildings” for Iraqi civilians. There were no warnings to UN forces concerning the dual use of daytime military installations at night, and CNN had to be aware of Saddam’s policy. We did discover the situation “the hard way.”

    • Terry says

      Jun 7, 2017 at 7:57 pm

      Muslims have been doing that and similar for decades.

      Hamas and Hezbollah do that when they are fighting Israel–leaders go into shelters; masses go to be human shields on important buildings.

      Set up rockets in heavily populated areas.

      GAZA IS MOSTLY BARREN, WITH LOTS OF OPEN AREAS, WHERE THEY COULD SET OFF ROCKETS-(AND, HOPEFULLY, MISFIRE AND KILL THE BASTARDS), BUT RATHER, THEY CROWD THE PEOPLE INTO SMALL AREAS AND FIRE ROCKETS
      FROM THEIR, SO THEY CAN CRY TO CNN, MSNBC AND THE USELESS NATIONS ABOUT ISRAELI ATROCITIES.

      Hezbollah does the same.

      I beleive that ISIS did the same in Raqqa, but am not sure.

  8. JOHN says

    Jun 7, 2017 at 8:39 am

    Naw! No “Fake News” Here……..

  9. SAM says

    Jun 7, 2017 at 10:48 am

    I can not watch this enemy helping enemy.

    I understand these brainwashed liberals helping Islam. But I can not fathom the extent of their hate against western civilization in which they can work and prosper. What is it that they hate. The freedom they enjoy?

  10. notmyprophet says

    Jun 7, 2017 at 12:04 pm

    Sorry about the quality – latest video from Tommy Robinson re marches in UK this weekend.

    https://youtu.be/fPFQQyoAFaI

  11. Terry says

    Jun 7, 2017 at 7:59 pm

    has been posted elsewhere- CNN paid people to stage (one or more) battles in Nigeria. (This was over 15 years ago). So, nothing new with these creeps. My view of them

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