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For Fundamentalists and the Hard Right, It’s ‘Spiritual Restoration’ Month
November 2006 has become the month of restoration.
Ted Haggard, following accusations of his relationship with a male prostitute, resigned as president of the National Association of Evangelicals and as senior pastor of the New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Haggard will spend many years taking the four steps of spiritual restoration: submitting, admitting, restitution, and being humbled. His spiritual advisors will heed the biblical warning of the apostle Paul’s Epistle to the Galatians to attempt not to be tempted while restoring (rather than shunning) a sinner.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/11/10/haggard.restoration/index.html?eref=rss_latest
The David Horowitz Freedom Center posted an announcement and a registration form for David Horowitz’s Restoration Weekend 2006, November 16 – 19, at The Breakers Resort in Palm Beach, Florida. Some of the listed speakers were Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, David Horowitz, and Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo. Tancredo has been one of the strongest supporters of the Iranian Communist MEK (Rajavi Cult or Pol Pot of Iran). http://www.horowitzfreedomcenter.org/
Today’s FrontPage Magazine did not include Tancredo’s speech or an explanation as to why David Horowitz would invite Tancredo to speak at Restoration Weekend. During 2005, FrontPage Magazine published articles of supporters of the Rajavi Cult. Following posted criticisms of FrontPage Magazine, the magazine posted, on January 13, 2006, Michael Rubin’s "Monsters of the Left: The Mujahedin al-Khalq".
http://www.frontpagemag.com/articles/readarticle.asp?ID=20780&p=1
Does Trancredo’s invitation to speak at David Horowitz’s Restoration Weekend mean that David Horowitz has restored Tancredo and the Iranian Communist MEK (Rajavi Cult or Pol Pot of Iran)?
David Horowitz did not provide the answer in his speech "Restoration Weekend 2006: Storming the Universities", posted November 20, 2006.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=25586
Instead, David Horowitz provided examples of some radical professors who offer indoctrination rather than critical thinking about their fields. His first example was Professor Dana Cloud, Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Professor Cloud provides this description at her Web site:
"Dana L. Cloud (PhD, University of Iowa, 1992) specializes in the analysis of contemporary and popular and political culture from feminist, Marxist, and critical anti-racist perspectives. She teaches undergraduate classes in persuasion, social movements, speechwriting, and rhetorical criticism, as well as graduate courses in rhetoric and the public sphere, rhetoric and ideology, rhetoric and feminist theory, and rhetoric and popular culture. Dr. Cloud’s areas of current research include the critique of therapeutic discourse, feminist and Marxist theories and politics, rhetoric of "family values," and the rhetoric of the U.S. labor movement."
http://www.utexas.edu/coc/cms/faculty/cloud.html
David Horowitz failed to mention in his speech that his FrontPage Magazine is a promoter of the writings of Professor Donna Hughes, Women’s Studies Program, at the University of Rhode Island.
http://www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/
A search for "Donna Hughes" at FrontPage Magazine today will return 43 hits, one of which is "Sex Slave Jihad".
Is this high quality, academic research? Does this professor provide critical evaluations of both sides of each issue?
Donna Hughes has been a strong supporter of the Iranian Communist MEK (Rajavi Cult or Pol Pot of Iran).
For an honest view of the Rajavi Cult, from a woman’s viewpoint, you need to read Anne Singleton’s Saddam’s Private Army: How Rajavi changed Iran’s Mojahedin from Armed Revolutionaries to an Armed Cult by A. Singleton. It can be obtained formAmazon.co.uk or directly from:
Iran-Interlink
PO Box 148
Leeds LS16 5YJ
United Kingdom
Price £12 – $20 US – €20 (inclusive of post & packaging)
Cheques or money orders payable to ‘Iran-Interlink’
Review
This up-to-date account and analysis charts the Mojahedin’s degeneration from one of the world’s most powerful armed opposition movements into a private army for Saddam Hussein.
Told by a Western woman who for twenty years had unique access to the secret inner world of the Mojahedin, this book is a very personal account of how Massoud Rajavi, leader of the Mojahedin, in his ruthless quest for power has perverted the original ideological basis of the organisation until it is little more than a cult which worships him as its quasi-deity.
Labelled as a terrorist entity by the governments of America and Europe, the author argues that the Mojahedin’s real danger lies in the unquestioning obedience of the members to the whims of their leader. Understanding Rajavi’s motivations is key to a thorough appraisal of this enigmatic organisation and the threat it poses to Western democracy.
http://www.iran-interlink.org/files/child%20pages/book_I-I.htm
A search for "Raymond Tanter" at FrontPage Magazine will yield many hits, including Jacob Laksin’s "The Ayatollah of Anti-Americanism". This article was critical of Professor Noam Chomsky and cited a book by Professor Raymond Tanter to support the criticisms.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=23071
Professor Raymond Tanter, who claims to be a Republican, is a strong supporter of the Iranian Communist MEK (Rajavi Cult or Pol Pot of Iran). Tanter works for the Iran Policy Committee, whose scholars and fellows include a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee and retired military officers.
Clare M. Lopez, Executive Director
Major General Paul E. Vallely, USA (Ret.)
Professor Raymond Tanter, Former Senior Staff Member, National Security Council
Lt. General Edward Rowny, USA (ret.)
Captain Charles T. "Chuck" Nash, USN (ret.)
Lt. General Thomas McInerney USAF, (Ret.)
Bruce McColm, President Institute for Democratic Strategies
Lt. Col. Bill Cowan, USMC (ret.)
James Akins, Ambassador (ret.)
FrontPage Magazine has published an article critical of the Iran Policy Committee: Kenneth R. Timmerman’s "When Making a Revolution, Allies Matter."
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=20972
David Horowitz should be exposing the professors and others who support the communist takeover of Iran by the Iranian Communist MEK (Rajavi Cult or Pol Pot of Iran). Who is funding the Iran Policy Committee?
Those who spoke at David Horowitz’s Restoration Weekend can start on a restoration process of their own. They can oppose the Iranian Communist MEK (Rajavi Cult or Pol Pot of Iran) and the neo-conservatives (neo-Trotskyites) who seek endless wars to impose totalitarian regimes in the world.
Authors Website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/traitorsusa/
Authors Bio: Professor, California State University, Fullerton
By Paul Sheldon Foote – OpEdNews.com – November 21, 2006
http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_paul_foo_061120_restoration_3a__ted_ha.htm
According to Nejat Society’s reporter in Shiraz, on Thursday,November 16th at 15 pm, a number of MEK’s families who are members of Nejat Society Shiraz Branch ,visited "Mr. Anderson" and "Mr. Bruce Graham", the representatives of International Red Cross in order to discuss the salvation of their beloved children.
During the meeting the families asked the IRC’s delegation to assist them to visit their children captured in Camp Ashraf and have phone calls with them.
At the end, Mr. Anderson the assistant of IRC promised the members of Nejat Society that according to Human Freedom Charter reminds the primary human rights to American officials in Iraq. These primary human rights include:
1- The residents of Ashraf could visit their families without the presence of MKO’s officials.
2- The residents of Ashraf could call their parents.
3- The residents of Ashraf could contact their families through writing letters.
A statement was arranged and signed by the attendees and delivered to IRC’s representative to be investigated.
MKO Members’ Families Meet Red Cross Reps-Shiraz
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Calling for help to rescue the captured ones in Camp Ashraf on Friday September twenty seconds, at ten O’clock Nejat Society held a press conference in Paris.
The delegation of NejatNGO including seven persons, described the situation of the captured ones in the camp of Rajavi’s Cult.
Mr. Chevalrias, the chief of anti-terrorism research center, started the meeting introducing Nejat Society. Then Mr. Babak Amin, as the representative of the delegation presented a background of Nejat’s activities, pointing out the results of the activities and the increasing development of families claims to liberate their beloved ones. He also explained the activities of Nejat Society during last week in Paris such as meetings with governmental or nongovernmental officials and human rights centers and press ..
Arash Sametipour, Ali Moradi, Ali Asghar torabi, Zahra bozorgmehr, Masumeh Rezaiee and Nasrin dadkhah presented some explanations on future planned affairs of Nejat NGO.
They told that their trip was welcomed warmly and the Society will send other delegations to Europe and North America regularly.
While answering the questions, Mr.Amin affirmed that they will open offices of Nejat Society in Western countries.
Mr. Moradi, who was a war-prisoner during Iran-Iraq war and was sent to the cult by Saddam Hussein, described the situation in Camp Ashraf and the Camp of liberated ones explaining the ways and solutions to be rescued from Rajavi’s cult. He confirmed that the majority of the people in Camp Ashraf are willing to meet their families.
Mr.Sametipour who was recruited by MKO members like Alireza Jafarzade in the US with some other teenagers and sent to Iraq, confirmed that Alireza Jafarzade was particularly in charge of justifying the recruited members and sending them to training camps in Iraq appealing the US officials to prevent the networks of MKO from acting in the Washington.
He told that the presence of this terrorist group and its activities near White House is a serious crisis and a potential threat for US community.
Mr. Husseini, Saeed Husseini’s mother from Husseini family, explained that she has suffered the separation from her son for twenty five years. She asked the international society for aid providing the possibility to meet and liberate her son.
Mr. Babak Amin read Nejat Society’s statement stating families’ demands as follows:
1. The possibility of meeting between captured members and their families freely and without the presence of the cult representatives.
2. The captured members could call or write their families directly and without the interference of cult leaders.
3. The members should be interviewed out of organizational conditions in front of international Red Cross representatives.
4. The members could decide for their future and situation themselves and shouldn’t be influenced by Rajavi organizational pressure.
5. Since Rajavi’s organization is recognized as a terrorist group, we know the leaders of the cult direct responsible for the captured members’ lives.
6. The conference ended by Q&A meeting at 1:30. the invited people were discussing the presented affaires until 6:00 pm.
Captives of Maryam Rajavi’s Mojahedin Khalq in Iraq
Are Human Rights Victims Says Iran-Interlink;
Press Conference in Paris Sept. 22
9/20/2006 10:00:00 AM
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To: International and Assignment desks
Contact: Anne Singleton of Iran Interlink, +44 113 278 0503 or email info@iran-interlink.org
PARIS, Sept. 19 /U.S. Newswire/ — Following is a statement of Iran Interlink on captives in Iraq:
For three years U.S. forces have protected a terrorist group in Iraq even though most of them want to return home to their families.
Mojahedin Khalq combatants are being held against their will in Camp Ashraf say former members who have returned home in the past two years.
Now, a seven member delegation from the Iranian NGO, Nejat Association, has arrived in Paris to alert public opinion to the situation of 3,000 men and women held against their will in an Iraqi base of the Iranian Mojahedin Khalq under the leadership of Maryam Rajavi.
U.S. forces say they cannot intervene inside the camp, leaving residents unable to access humanitarian help from the ICRC and the UNHCR.
Several cases of retention by force have been confirmed by personal testimony from former captives in the MKO camp who say that basic human rights are being violated daily. Significant among these cases are Iranian prisoners of war (POWs) captured by the Iraqi forces during the eight year Iran-Iraq war and who were then delivered by Saddam Hussein to the Mojahedin to boost numbers.
Nejat Association comprises former members and families of the Camp Ashraf captives. They demand the immediate and full implementation of UN Protected Persons status so that they can have free and unfettered contact with their relatives inside the camp.
Arash Sametipour, a former combatant of the MKO who spent several years in Evin prison says: "We know that the majority of people trapped inside Camp Ashraf would like to leave. We hear this from those who have recently escaped the group. What we are asking is for the international community to implement all the conditions of the Fourth Geneva Convention so that the residents of Camp Ashraf can get help from their families."
Nejat Association says this is a grave humanitarian crisis and that Camp Ashraf residents should not be used as pawns in political wrangles between western governments and Iran.
The Iraqi government has announced that Camp Ashraf must be dismantled and the residents removed from Iraqi territory. Responsibility for the safety and wellbeing of these individuals now rests with western governments and international humanitarian agencies.
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EDITOR’S NOTE: A press conference will be held in Paris on Friday, Sept. 22, at 10 a.m.
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