CNN Analyst Unsure If Mass Shooter Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez's Name is Muslim

[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.]

On the 16 July 2015 edition of The Lead, CNN analyst Tom Fuentes was unwilling to conclude that the perpetrator of a mass shooting against servicemen in Chattanooga, Tennessee was Muslim. John Berman asked the former FBI assistant director, "Now that we have the name [Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez], the key questions are what?" Fuentes replied, "I know...what the name sounds like, but we don't know that it's a Muslim name. We know it's an Arabic name."