Right. The NWO was active in the 7th century and brought about Islam.
It's simple, it's called co-opting an organization.
Happens all the time.
Read up on the banking families to start to get an idea of how they have operated over the centuries.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banking_families is just a start, but you'll find strategies and tactics from centuries ago that happen all the time today. Throughout the centuries they have been advisors to heads of state, leading forces in espionage, etc.
Today's international financial elites are simply the current generation of the same financial interests. Wealth, power and generation-spanning stragegies are passed down to protoges, heirs, etc.