[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.]
Sean Hannity confronted Anjem Choudary on the 27 August 2014 edition of his Fox News Channel program over the Islamist's unapologetic support of ISIS. The two repeatedly talked over each other, with the American talk show host hounding Choudary if he supported the terrorist group's genocidal campaign in Iraq and Syria.
The U.K.-based radical Muslim contended that the multiple account of atrocities by ISIS forces, especially against Christians and Yazidis in northern Iraq, were lies that were being used to discredit the Islamist group:
SEAN HANNITY: ...We have video of children that have been beheaded, like this photojournalist [James Foley]; women and children with their heads placed on a stick after they've been beheaded; and we have one report after another of people who have been killed, chased out of their homes. They're in the Sinjar Mountains. The world is dropping food to support them, and to protect them from radical friends of yours that you obviously support. And I'm just asking, do you support the concept of an Islamic caliphate of either convert or die? Do you support that? It's a simple question. Why don't you just tell the truth of what you believe?
ANJEM CHOUDARY, LONDON IMAM: What you're talking about...is complete falsehood. First of all, the Yazidis – whoever went to the mountain – went to the mountain even before the Islamic State came to the area. First of all, they said there were 40,000; then, they said there were 20,000. Then, they went down – eventually, they said, well, a couple hundred and they were living in the mountains anyway in villages. So, this was a complete pack of lies in order to demonize and vilify the Islamic State. And, by the way, there's nothing called ISIS anymore. There's a calipha. Secondly, the Christians are actually queuing up to come back into Mosul because they realized that life under the Sharia is much better than the Nouri al-Maliki regime, which the Americans propped up, and who was murdering and torturing the people in the region.