Fox's McCarthyite Priest tricks Muslims? (video)

According to the UK Guardian "Representatives of an east London mosque used by several of the terror suspects reacted angrily yesterday to what they called a 'sick stunt' by Rupert Murdoch's Fox News channel."

Fox's resident priest, Fr. Jonathan Morris, apparently approached the mosque under the guise of a freelance reporter from the Vatican working for peace.

Here's Morris' take from the video [right]:

i was determined to speak with the religious teachers of men who are now suspects in a terrible plot. and to ask them the tough questions. we were quickly turned away, but when the leader of this mosque saw that i was alone, away from the other media members he came across the street and offered to talk.

In the footage, Morris proceeds to bungle his way through precisely the coverage the Imams sought to avoid, asking why Americans never see Muslims coming together to oppose violence. First, the irony of a Priest who opposes the Vatican in support for a war that's killing tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis is mind-boggling. But the idiocy of reporter, whose network studiously avoids Muslim calls for nonviolence, asking why he doesn't see it is like a Pravda reporter asking why there was so little opposition to the Communists in the media. Father, forgive him for he knows not what he does. But should he come to his senses, he can check for Muslim denunciation of violence here here* here here here or here.

A little background on Rupert Murdoch's resident cleric: Morris is a pro-war, pro-McCarthy Fox News contributor and a member of the conservative Legionaries of Christ congregation. The congregation, founded by drug addict and alleged child molester, Marcial Maciel -- who was forced out of his leadership role in 2004 -- describes itself as followers of Christ, Mary and the Pope:

Love for the Church brings Legionaries to support and follow the Pope, promoting his charism of primacy and magisterium.

*A reader wrote AlterNet to say that "I wouldn't quote CAIR" (the first link to Muslim condemnation of violence above). While the reader points out that CAIR has numerous critics, including Democratic Sens Dick Durbin and Charles Schumer, as well as much of the radical right like Daniel Pipes and his ilk, it doesn't change the fact that the page I link to includes numerous articles of Muslim condemnation of violence nor the fact that CAIR has condemned Muslim violence itself.