When Barack Obama asserted that “99.9%” of Muslims reject the interpretation of Islam practiced by groups like ISIS, al-Qaeda, Hamas, et. al., it wasn’t just another in a long line of lies he has told. Fareed Zakaria – the interviewer he told that lie to – has a history that should raise concerns about a similar intention to deceive. First, here is Obama’s comments about just how insignificant Americans should believe the number of jihadists really is:

As Shoebat.com has reported, Fareed Zakaria once referred to himself as having grown up in a secular home despite his father being a Muslim fundamentalist scholar. In some ways, Zakaria’s background served as perhaps the best metaphor to illustrate the lie. Like Obama, so too has Zakaria touted the line that Islamic extremism is not rooted in Islam; the latter did so soon after the 9/11 attacks.

Zakaria also supported the construction of the Ground Zero mosque. As someone who claims to know “a lot about the world of Islam”, Zakaria should be well aware of the true intentions of that mosque’s Imam, Feisal Abdul Rauf.

As to the lie that both Zakaria and Obama have espoused, Breitbart’s Ben Shapiro demonstrated unequivocally that the majority of Muslims – not .1% of them – support the jihadists: