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For Fundamentalists and
the Hard Right, It's 'Spiritual Restoration' Month
By Paul Sheldon Foote,
OpEdNews.com, November 21, 2006
Original Content at http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_paul_foo_061120_restoration_3a__ted_ha.htm
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".
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=11791
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).
http://www.ncr-iran.org/content/view/475/1/
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.)
http://www.iranpolicy.org
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
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