When the media announced a few months ago that the leader of North Korea had banned the ownership of pets, no one knew that Massoud and Maryam Rajavi had implemented this type of ban in their cult of personality, Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) decades ago.
The prohibition of the most trivial everyday concepts in dictatorial systems is proclaimed with various justifications. For example, the dictator of North Korea, Kim Jong Un, has called keeping a pet dog as a capitalist or bourgeois behavior and against the socialist lifestyle. North Korea’s government is accusing people with pet dogs of committing “non-socialist behavior”.
But in the Cult of Rajavi, these restrictions are imposed on the members with other justifications. Mohammad Reza Torabi, a former child soldier of the MEK, while reminiscing about rescuing his neighbor’s cat in Berlin, Germany, writes about the hostile relationship of the MEK leaders with animals:
“In Ashraf, there were many dogs and cats in the camp, but the MEK did not allow us to feed them and pay attention them. It was forbidden. That is, the MEK do not even allow their members to establish emotional relationships with animals, let alone humans. This way, they killed people’s emotion. From time to time, they started hunting dogs at Camp Ashraf and killed dogs with Kalashnikovs.”
As usual, Mohammad Reza’s post on his X account, attracts the audience’s attention, and a few other former child soldiers of the MEK also share similar feedback for him in the comments. Their memories show the extent of suffocation ruling the MEK, which is much more than what is ruling the notorious North Korean dictatorship.
The former child soldier, who is active in the X social network under the pseudonym Aylin Moghadam, has a memory to confirm Mohammad Reza’s testimonies:
“”It was exactly like that, Maryam Hamed fed a cat and her kittens several times, they called her in the meeting and said that you have no right to feed the cats, because you are satisfying yourself, you have no right to go to the cats anymore.”
How can paying attention and love for an animal become a source of oppression in the brainwashing meetings of the Cult of Rajavi? This is a masterpiece that throughout history has only been done by destructive cults, and the MEK is one of its most professional examples. As Torabi rightly says: “Mujahedin systematically dehumanize.”
Azadeh Masum wrote about how she cared about the cats of around the MEK’s headquarters, Auver Sur d’Oise, France. What caused her to receive a strange warning from her superiors while living in France, in the cradle of civilization and democracy:
“It reminded me of my memories… I came out of the organization 3 months later and endured the nonsense meetings that Azer Jamshidi hold for me for 3 more months in order to have the opportunity to find a home and a family for the 17 kittens who were in Auver or sister’s shelter [female members’ dormitory], and they I was constantly criticized for my handling of these cats and their constant warning was that I should not play with them, otherwise the brothers [male members] will be “in trouble” with “moment”. Would you like to explain to others the meaning of “moment” some time?”
“Being in trouble with a moment” in the literature of the MEK means having sexual thoughts in one’s mind. The “moment” means the moment when a person thinks about the opposite sex or sexual issues. How taking care of a number of kittens creates? The argument of such issues can only be found in the MEK’s ruling
“The anti-socialist behavior of keeping a dog” or “satisfying an emotional need by feeding cats” or “sexual stimulation of male members by taking care of cats” all come from dictatorships, the ruling systems that require their community to conform to only one lifestyle and reject any other lifestyle with irrational arguments.