Far-right religious group behind 'Path to 9/11' film continues to infiltrate mainstream media
unholyalliances printable version print page     Bookmark and Share
Thu Jan 31, 2013 at 08:40:25 PM EST

‘Path to 9/11’ director David Cunningham, who was outed a few years ago as a member of the far-right group Youth with a Mission, has been toiling away on a number of media projects at YWAM’s expansive University of the Nations campus on the Big Island. His efforts include the development of a feature film about King David, running a film school, and starting a “grassroots” news service—which, as it turns out, is a front for YWAM.

In 2006, six years after the September 11 attacks, ABC was about to air a two-part movie called Path to 9/11. Days before it aired, the movie's director, David Cunningham, was exposed as having strong ties to a cult-like conservative evangelical organization known as Youth With A Mission (YWAM), based in Kona, Hawaii. He was the son of its founder, Loren Cunningham.

The disclosure immediately sent shock waves through the blogosphere and the political talk show world, and confirmed suspicions that the film, which had been billed as a factual docudrama, was ma