You might remember Leo Hohmann as the WorldNetDaily reporter who hated Muslims so much that he not only reguarly went into freakout mode, he spread lies about the purportedly Muslim-leaning refugee workforce at a Chobani yogurt plant in Idaho — falsehoods that had to be quietly corrected months after the fact, presumably after Chobani’s lawyers had a little chat with WND’s management.
Well, after being let go from WND in early 2018 when it hit those financial difficulties it has yet to get out of (and not, apparently, because of his Chobani lies), Hohmann is back.
In a July 9 WND article, Hohmann wrote in a fearmongering tone about how “An armed militia marched through an Atlanta-area suburban town toting AR-15 rifles and shotguns, shouting black-power slogans and demanding reparations from white motorists,” going on to add that “an armed group of up to 300 “protesters” marched through the streets of Stone Mountain carrying weapons and yelling racially charged slogans.” He further added: “This activity did not happen in a vacuum. The Atlanta area has been a hotspot for racial violence since the controversial shooting of Rayshard Brooks on June 12 in a Wendy’s parking lot.”
Because Hohmann still hates Muslims, he worked them into his article, even though they have no real connection to the scary black people that were the focus of his article:
What is known is that the Stone Mountain area contains one of the highest concentrations of Muslim refugees in the Southern United States and some of the marchers could be heard chanting “Alhamdulillah.”
“’Alhamdulillah’ means ‘Thanks be to Allah’ and is not usually said except by observant Muslims,” noted Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch.
Stone Mountain is known as the symbolic birthplace of the modern KKK. This makes it a flashpoint for a triggering event.
Hohmann’s main source for this article is a man named David Bores, who he benignly described as merely “a retired police chief in Woodstock, a suburban community north of Atlanta.” But he apparently hates Muslims as much as Hohmann does; according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Bores offers training to law enforcement that is “based in anti-Muslim rhetoric and conspiracy theories,” portraying Muslims as inherently violent and prone to pedophilia, and his course materials describe as teaching how to “effectively deal with the various Islamic threats to subvert our Constitution.”
In other words, exactly the kind of person Hohmann would consider a credible source.
But this isn’t the only place he’s resurfacing at WND. The current edition of the sparsely read Whistleblower magazine, with the theme of “Cancel America” — which features more fearmonger about protests that have allegedly “been engineered and largely co-opted by openly Marxist/communist revolutionary groups including Antifa, Black Lives Matter and Refuse Fascism” — includes an article headlined “America is experiencing Act 1 of an intended Marxist revolution. Act 2 is a lot worse.” Sure, that sounds reasonable by Hohmann standards.
To sum up: WND’s David Kupelian overlooked the fact that Hohmann apparently almost got WND sued into oblivion for false reporting in order to bring him back for a new round of hateful fearmongering. It seems Kupelian is not interested in proving that WND deserves to live.