Martin Mawyer

Martin Mawyer is the president of the Christian Action Network, a conservative non-profit organization that says it is “Protecting America’s Religious and Moral Heritage”.^{[citation needed]}

Career

Mawyer started as a freelance journalist and became the editor of Jerry Falwell’s “Moral Majority Report”. He founded the Christian Action Network in 1990.^[1]

Controversy

Mawyer appeared on FOX News Channel’s “Hannity,” promoting his organization’s film, “Homegrown Jihad: Terrorist Camps Around U.S.” He alleged that Jamaat ul-Fuqra has 35 terrorist training camps in the U.S. and that his organization had procured secret videotape of the training. He claimed that a Muslim-American group named Muslims of the Americas is a front for ul-Fuqra, run from a rural village called Islamberg in Hancock, N.Y.^[2]

Muslims of the Americas denies the allegations, calling CAN a “Zionist Action Group” that “disguise their conspiratorial actions and hate campaigns by which they intend to cause a clash between Muslims and Christians in the U.S.A.” ^[3]

The Center for American Progress called “Homegrown Jihad” “inflammatory” in its August 2011 report, “Fear Inc: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America.”^[4]

Books

Mawyer is currently working on a book about the alleged terrorist training camps in the U.S. His organization’s website says “he will reveal the never-before-told story of a high-level source within MOA and our secret meetings with him/her and much, much more!”^[5]

“Silent Shame: Sexual Abuse of Children and Youth.” 1987.

“Pathways to Success: First Steps for Becoming a Christian in Action.” 1995.

“Defending the American Family: A Pro-Family Contract with America.” 1995.

References

1. ^ “Martin J. Mawyer—President of CAN,” http://christianaction.org/martinmawyer,
2. ^ “Hannity,” FOX News Channel, Feb. 16, 2009
3. ^ “Imam El Sheikh Syed Mubarik Ali Gilani Qadri’s Rebuttal to the False Accusations by Zionist Action Group aka Christian Action Network,” http://www.islamberg.org/, November 23, 2009
4. ^ Center for American Progress, http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2011/08/pdf/islamophobia.pdf, “Fear Inc: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America,” August 2011
5. ^ “New Book Coming Out Exposing Terrorist Camps in America,” http://www.christianaction.org/node/319, Oct. 14, 2011