Paul shedon Foote

For Fundamentalists and the Hard Right

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

November 27, 2006 0 comment

USA

America’s Most Dangerous Professors

David Horowitz’s The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America contains two or more pages on each professor describing why each professor should be considered dangerous. However, Horowitz conceded that the 101 profiles represent only a sample of more than ten thousand dangerous professors. As a Marxist student at Columbia University during the Cold War of the 1950’s, David Horowitz was able to do well in courses taught by anti-communist professors. As an undergraduate business school student and capitalist at the University of Michigan during the Vietnam War in the 1960’s, I was able to do well even in a Philosophy of Communism course taught by a communist professor. My communist professor knew well the differences between all forms of communism and attended international conventions of communists. John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr’s In Denial: Historians, Communism, & Espionage documented the extent of the dishonesty of many communist professors today. David Horowitz has noted correctly that many current professors are destroying America’s once great university system by changing classrooms to indoctrination camps where professors attack students who dare to disagree with the idiotic views of the professors. For details of the latest cases involving students, see the Web site of David Horowitz’s Students for Academic Freedom (SAF): http://www.studentsforacademicfreedom.org/ Approximately 30 researchers prepared the profiles of the 101 professors. Other than the names of the researchers who prepared each profile, there is no guidance to the reader about the credentials of the researchers or about the quality control techniques. David’s Blog at Front Page Magazine contains details of disputes raised about some of the profiled professors: http://www.frontpagemag.com/blog/index.asp However, if the profiles had been prepared by professors who know the works of the profiled professors, then the profiles could have been even more critical. Peter Collier wrote the profile of Noam Chomsky, MIT Professor of Modern Languages and Linguistics. Peter Collier and David Horowitz were the co-editors of The Anti-Chomsky Reader. While some professors are being placed on trial in Europe for Holocaust denial, Noam Chomsky blundered with Pol Pot’s Cambodian genocide denial. While linguistics professors applaud Noam Chomsky’s contributions to linguistics and many readers would agree with some of his political views, it is difficult to understand why any professor (or anyone else) could deny Pol Pot’s Cambodian genocide. Since 1984, even people who rely only upon movies know about “The Killing Fields”. Among Chomsky’s many books, readers can find these books on the concept of rogue states: Rogue States: The Rule of Force in World Affairs and Acts of Aggression: Policing "Rogue" States. Professor Raymond Tanter, not profiled as one of the 101 most dangerous academics in America, published a book on a similar topic, Rogue Regimes: Terrorism and Proliferation. By David Horowitz’s criterion of professors who are dangerous in the classroom, Noam Chomsky probably has a greater following among students than Professor Raymond Tanter does. However, by the criterion of which professor is more dangerous to the world, Professor Raymond Tanter is the clear winner. Professor Raymond Tanter, a Republican, works with the Iran Policy Committee and is a strong supporter of the Iranian Communist MEK (Rajavi Cult) terrorists. For descriptions of honest books about the MEK, see: http://www.iran-interlink.org/ In addition to Professor Raymond Tanter, the Iran Policy Committee includes a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee and retired military officers: http://www.iranpolicy.org/ If there are any honest communist professors, they should be exposing the activities of the Iran Policy Committee and of the neo-conservatives (neo-Trotskyites) who support the communist overthrow of Iran. A Republican professor who promotes support for Iranian communists with a Republican administration is more dangerous than non-Republican professors in classrooms. On January 13, 2006, David Horowitz’s Front Page Magazine published Michael Rubin’s “Monsters of the Left: The Mujahedin al-Khalq”. If the Iranian Communist MEK (Rajavi Cult) terrorists are monsters of the Left, then all professors who support them should be profiled, such as Professor Raymond Tanter and Professor Rabbi Daniel Zucker, founder of Americans for Democracy in the Middle East: http://www.adme.ws/ Unfortunately, David Horowitz’s Front Page Magazine has been publishing articles by supporters of the Iranian Communist MEK (Rajavi Cult) terrorists, including Professor Rabbi Daniel Zucker’s “Iran’s Interference in Iraq” on December 20, 2005. Professor Howard Zinn, one of the 101 professors profiled, is also a signer of the Stop War on Iran Statement: http://www.stopwaroniran.org/statement.shtml Zinn’s name and the names of communist organizations did not stop me, a conservative Republican, from signing this statement, too. The most honest disclosures about the Iranian Communist MEK (Rajavi Cult) terrorists and about Americans who support them have been at Web sites publishing right-wing authors: (1) Traitors USA http://groups.yahoo.com/group/traitorsusa/ (2) Antiwar.com, especially Justin Raimondo http://antiwar.com/justin/ (3) LewRockwell.com, http://www.lewrockwell.com/ David Horowitz is the author also of Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left. The problem with many authors on the left and right is that their simplifications to gain readers can result in dangerous consequences. A far more dangerous unholy alliance has been between the neo-conservatives (neo-Trotskyites) and the Republicans who permitted them to pose as conservatives. In 1959, the lies of Democrats and of Republicans about Fidel Castro being the “George Washington of Cuba” resulted in the communist takeover of Cuba and the Cuban Missile Crisis. On April 15, 2005, the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) permitted the Iranian Communist MEK (Rajavi Cult) terrorists to hold a convention at its Constitution Hall. On May 6, 2005, Front Page Magazine published David Johnson’s “A Third Option for Iran” supporting the MEK. As a conservative Republican professor who has been a target of some left-wing professors seeking the removal of all Republican professors from universities and who has supported David Horowitz’s years of work against political correctness in universities, I remain opposed to his editors at Front Page Magazine who have attempted to both support and oppose the Iranian Communist MEK (Rajavi Cult) terrorists.

Professors Paul Sheldon Foote, California State University, March5,2006

June 18, 2006 0 comment

Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

Brownback Applauds

Senator Sam Brownback is satisfied with Condoleezza Rice’s announcement of more money to support Iranian democracy:

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice asked Congress on Wednesday to provide $75 million in emergency funding to step up pressure on the Iranian government, including expanding radio and television broadcasts into Iran and promoting internal opposition to the rule of religious leaders.

Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., who has called for $100 million to promote democracy in Iran, applauded the initiative as the "absolutely right move at this point in time." While some Iranian activists have criticized the administration for moving too slowly to support them, Brownback said the administration had been "very methodical" in fighting terrorism. "The first step was Afghanistan, then Iraq, and now you’re seeing an increasing focus on Iran," he said.

Sounds a bit ominous to me. It is interesting to see how the administration did not throw their support behind the Brownback / Santorum bill but proposed their own solution. There could be two reasons for this. First, after Brownback’s criticism of Bush’s domestic spying the whitehouse may not be chomping at the bit to give Brownback positive recognition. Second, and perhaps more plausible, is that the House version of this bill includes language about sanctions that would anger many of our allies. By having Rice announce this plan the administration avoids having to push to have the controversial language removed.

Iran continues to get Senator Brownback in the media spotlight. As I have said before, I think this is a good move on his part and one that will make him appear to be a more legitimate candidate in 2008.

If you research this issue, you may revise your initial conclusions: 1. The sponsor of the Iran Freedom Support Act in the House of Representatives is Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, one of the strongest supporters of the Iranian Communist MEK (Rajavi Cult) terrorists.

The MEK has murdered American military officers, Rockwell International employees, and Iranian and Iraqi civilians.

2. The leader of the MEK, Massoud Rajavi, is probably being kept by the American military in Camp Mercury, Iraq. Please ask Senator Brownback to discuss this.

3. Approximately 4,000 MEK fighters are being held at Camp Ashraf, Iraq. According to Justin Raimondo (Antiwar.com), these terrorists will be given political asylum in America. If you and others who oppose Senator Brownback continue to publicize these developments, your disclosures will hurt Senator Brownback.

4. There have been more than 300 co-sponsors of the Iran Freedom Support Act in the House of Representatives. The supporters of the communist takeover of Iran by the Iranian Communist MEK (Rajavi Cult) terrorists could have passed this bill long ago. However, the support has not been as strong in the Senate. There has been a big fight within the Bush administration over the MEK. Some in the State Department have been fighting correctly the neo-conservatives (neo-Trotskyites who claim to be former communists) over the issue of the Iranian Communist MEK (Rajavi Cult) terrorists.

5. As a conservative Republican, I would never vote for any candidate of any party who supports the communist takeover of any country.

6. Syrian opposition leaders have announced already that they will not accept any money from the American government. No honest political leader in any country should accept such money.

7. In 1996, Republicans condemned the Democratic National Committee and some Democratic Party candidates for accepting political campaign contributions from Communist China. If it is illegal in America for politicians to accept political campaign contributions from foreign sources, then why is it proper for Americans to attempt to corrupt the political processes of other countries?

March 10, 2006

April 9, 2006 0 comment

Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

Supporters of Endless Wars in Congress

In my article, Supporters of Endless Wars in Congress (http://www.aljazeerah.info/ , September 13, 2005), I expressed my opposition to the Democrats and Republicans in Congress who have sponsored or have co-sponsored the Iran Freedom Support Act. If this act becomes law, then the American taxpayers will be paying millions of dollars to support Iranian groups claiming to be pro-democracy.

The American neo-conservatives (neo-Trotskyites) in the American Congress support America’s use of military force and of other means to impose communist or totalitarian governments in the world in the name of democracy. Vice President Richard Cheney has been discussing the possibility of dropping nuclear bombs on Iran. Any Iranian living outside of Iran who supports America’s dropping nuclear bombs on Iran should be deported to Iran so that they can enjoy America’s exporting of nuclear bomb democracy, too. Vice President Cheney and the evil members of Congress who support the Iran Freedom Support Act should not be supported by any Iranian, American, or by any person in the world who possesses an ounce of decency.

With my satellite dish, I was able to watch the MEK channel’s coverage of the MEK protest near the United Nations on September 14, 2005. I was able to see the large number of red and white MEK flags with communist symbols being waved by the MEK supporters. Many of the MEK supporters were not even Iranians. As Kenneth Timmerman has shown in his posted photographs, the MEK paid large numbers of non-Iranians from other countries to come to America for a free trip. Now that Saddam Hussein is no longer in power, there are no longer millions of dollars of money being given to the MEK through the United Nations Oil-for-Food Program. Who is financing the MEK now? You still have nearly 4,000 MEK fighters in Camp Ashraf, Iraq who must be supported.

Unfortunately, Americans who watch the evening television news or read their local newspapers are unlikely to have seen the communist flags of the MEK flying in New York City.

Fortunately, Kenneth Timmerman took photographs of two protest groups (the MEK and the monarchists) and reported the names of the other protest groups protesting at different times or locations near the United Nations. Please see: http://www.iran.org/news/24-Irandemos.htm

As Kenneth Timmerman noted, the MEK is on the terrorist list in America for a good reason. The MEK has a long history of acts of terrorism, including the murders of Americans in Iran and a terrorist attack in America in 1992. MEK fighters at Camp Ashraf, Iraq have held annual celebrations of the murders of these Americans. In Iraq, the MEK’s terrorist acts and war crimes include forcing Iraqis to stand in roads so that MEK tanks could run over and crush to death innocent Iraqis. MEK leaders wanted to save all MEK bullets for the invasion of Iran. Why does the MEK need to invade Iran? The reason is that there is nearly zero support for the MEK in Iran.

Unlike Kenneth Timmerman, however, I have only contempt also for the Iranian monarchists. I was in Tehran, Iran in the summer of 1976 when the late Shah of Iran explained on Iranian television why he had abolished all political parties and had replaced all Iranian political parties with one party, the Resurgence Party. After the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom forced Reza Shah to go into exile and placed the Shah of Iran on the throne, the Shah of Iran promised the Iranian people that he would give them a constitutional monarchy similar to that of the United Kingdom’s. The Shah of Iran lied. The Shah of Iran gave the Iranian people a one-party state with an absolute monarchy and a lot of corruption.

I do not support one-party systems of government anywhere in the world. The neo-conservatives (neo-Trotskyites) and American members of Congress who claim that the MEK and the Iranian monarchists are pro-democracy are liars.

President Ahmadinejad received the votes of a very large number of Iranians. There never was an election of Maryam Rajavi. Why do MEK leaders lie by claiming that she is the president-elect of Iran? MEK supporters were very active in the brutalizing of American hostages at the American Embassy in Tehran, Iran. When I was a doctoral student at Michigan State University, I attended MEK meetings. Some of the MEK students left the university to return to Iran to help the MEK supporters holding Americans hostage.

The MEK was founded in 1965 to oust the Shah of Iran from power. The Shah of Iran executed or killed in gun battles most of the original MEK leaders, except for Massoud Rajavi. The MEK is opposed to all Iranian governments except for a communist totalitarian state under the rule of Massoud Rajavi. Even the New York Times has reported about the future Pol Pot of Iran:

"This past winter in Iran, when such a popular outburst among students and others was still just a dream, if you mentioned the Mujahedeen, those who knew and remembered the group laughed at the notion of it spearheading a democracy movement. Instead, they said, the Rajavis, given the chance, would have been the Pol Pot of Iran."

–Elizabeth Rubin, "The Cult of Rajavi", New York Times Magazine, July 13, 2003

The neo-conservatives (neo-Trotskyites) and the Democrats and Republicans in Congress who support the Iran Freedom Support Act are the worst terrorists in the world today. They threaten to drop nuclear bombs on Iran and impose another Pol Pot. Pol Pot was able to murder only approximately 25% to 33% of his people until the communist government of Vietnam sent its military to stop the genocide by the communist Pol Pot.

America does not want to bomb Iran and to impose the MEK because of democracy. Instead, the Iranian people want to be free to (1) sell their oil in Euros instead of using American dollars and (2) to start an oil exchange in 2006 instead of using oil exchanges in New York.

The truth is that there is more capitalism and democracy in Iran and in many other countries today than there is in America. America’s political leaders are attempting to impose a communist government in Iran today (just as they did in 1959 in Cuba with Fidel Castro, the "George Washington of Cuba"). America is making these threats against Iran (and warnings against people in other countries who dare to be free). Most Americans do not understand yet how the neo-conservatives (neo-Trotskyites) in the Democratic and Republican parties are destroying America. They do not know that countries other than Iraq and Iran will stop using the American dollar or making investments in America. When there is a major depression in America or another terrorist attack in America, American dupes will have a choice: become educated and oust the neo-conservative (neo-Trotskyite) Democrats and Republicans or respond by bombing every country in the world refusing to hold American dollars and have American-supported totalitarians as their leaders.

Recommended Books on the MEK (Rajavi Cult)

Singleton, Anne, Saddam’s Private Army: How Rajavi Changed Iran’s Mojahedin from Armed Revolutionaries to an Armed Cult, Iran-Interlink (UK), 2003. ISBN: 0-9545009-0-3.

Available from the United Kingdom: http://www.iran-interlink.org/files/child%20pages/book_I-I.htm

This is the best single book available today on the MEK. Unfortunately, no American publisher is promoting this book in America. You must order it from the United Kingdom. The British author and her Iranian husband spent approximately 20 years inside the MEK, including time at Camp Ashraf, Iraq. She included extensive discussions of cult techniques and of why it is difficult to leave the MEK (Rajavi Cult) even in the United Kingdom.

Banisadr, Masoud, Masoud: Memoirs of an Iranian Rebel, Saqi Books, 2004. ISBN 0863563740

Available from many sources in America, such as: http://www.amazon.com/

This Iranian author spent nearly 20 years of his life in the MEK, including at Camp Ashraf, Iraq. He described brainwashing and torture of MEK cult members at Camp Ashraf, Iraq. Unlike some MEK cult members, he did not die from the punishment. After leaving the MEK (Rajavi Cult), he wrote a lengthy book explaining exactly how the MEK finds new members and how it brainwashes and tortures its members. Abrahamian, Ervand, The Iranian Mojahedin, Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, 1989. ISBN 0-300-05267-7

Available from many sources in America, such as: http://www.amazon.com/

While this book has not been updated since 1989, it contains the scholarly research of an Iranian-American professor who interviewed Massoud Rajavi and other MEK leaders.

Professor Paul Sheldon Foote

By Paul Sheldon Foote – Al-Jazeerah, September 18, 2005

March 19, 2006 0 comment

Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

Stop War On Iran Campaign

President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Secretary of State Rice, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, U.N. Secretary-General Annan, Congressional Leaders and media representatives:

As a conservative Republican, I oppose the neo-conservatives (neo-Trotskyites), Democrats and Republicans, in Congress and in the Bush administration who support the communist overthrow of Iran by the Iranian Communist MEK (Rajavi Cult) terrorists. The Fox News Channel has been a major supporter of the Iranian Communist MEK (Rajavi Cult) terrorists, including retaining as an analyst the former spokesman for the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI).

For details of this communist cult, read these books:

Saddam’s Private Army by Anne Singleton Masoud by Masoud Banisadr Unlike the chickenhawks in Congress and in the Bush administration, I served in the Army in Vietnam. America has diplomatic and business relations with Communist Vietnam today, even though hundreds of thousands of Americans were killed or wounded in the Vietnam War. America has major trade and investment with Communist China. The neo-conservatives (neo-Trotskyites)oppose business or political relations with anti-communist Iran and support the Iranian Communist MEK (Rajavi Cult) terrorists. The MEK has murdered American military officers, Rockwell International employees, and Iranian and Iraqi civilians. The MEK is guilty of atrocities in Iraq.

Iran has been offering to America closer relations for many years. In 1995, President Bill Clinton announced at the World Jewish Congress more sanctions on Iran, including the prohibition of a contract between Conoco and Iran.

Now, the Bush administration is proposing even more sanctions to provide more pretexts for a future war.

It is time to stop the endless wars to benefit a few corrupt business and political interests in America.

The neo-conservatives (neo-Trotskyites) have betrayed America. America is a republic, not an empire. The imperialist goals of those who admire Machiavelli are having the result of the loss of sources of petroleum and other resources and the reduction in the use of the American dollar.

For details of the American damage to the people of Iran, read these books:

Interlock: The untold story of American banks, oil interests, the Shah’s money, debts, and the astounding connections between them by Mark Hulbert

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins

Americans need to oppose now those in politics, business, and in the media who seek to benefit from endless wars.

professor Paul Sheldon Foote

California State University, Fullerton

pfoote@fullerton.edu

March 11, 2006 0 comment

Duplicity of the MEK nature

Iranian Communist Lies About Iran

Michael Rubin’s “Monsters of the Left: The Mujahedin al-Khalq” (FrontPage Magazine.com, January 13, 2006, http://www.frontpagemag.com/articles/readarticle.asp?ID=20780&p=1)

classified correctly the Iranian Communist MEK (Rajavi Cult) terrorists. Even the New York Times has reported that some Iranians refer to Massoud Rajavi as the “Pol Pot of Iran”. (Elizabeth Rubin, “The Cult of Rajavi”, New York Times Magazine, July 13, 2003,

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/13/magazine/13MUJAHADEEN.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5007&en=6b6a11b0fdb450b1&ex=1373428800&partner=USERLAND

pagewanted=1&ei=5007&en=6b6a11b0fdb450b1&ex=1373428800&partner=USERLAND)

Ali Safavi’s “Missing the Mark on Iran” (FrontPageMagazine.com, January 27, 2006, http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=21064) should become a textbook case example on how easily America’s terrorist enemies can have their lies published in the American media.

Michael Rubin’s “Hitting the Mark on Iran” (FrontPageMagazine.com, January 27, 2006, http://www.frontpagemag.com/articles/readarticle.asp?ID=21065&p=1) has exposed some of the dishonest tactics the MEK has used with success in duping the American media and the American public. One could fill books about the dishonesty of the MEK, if any American publisher dares to expose the names of Democrats and Republicans in Congress who have been duped.

The MEK has been on the terrorist lists of the State Department since the administration of former President Bill Clinton. In September 2002, President George W. Bush’s background paper for his remarks at the United Nations listed the MEK as one of three Saddam Hussein-supported terrorists operating in Iraq. The MEK was a pretext for the invasion of Iraq. In April 2003, American and coalition forces did attack and kill some of the MEK terrorists at Camp Ashraf, Iraq. However, some analysts have claimed that this was a staged attack because the American military could have destroyed easily the entire camp and its four thousand or more terrorists. The American government ordered the American military to protect the MEK and to permit the MEK to keep individual weapons. In 2004, the American government recognized the MEK terrorists at Camp Ashraf, Iraq as having protected person status under the Fourth Geneva Convention (civilian individuals!). The American government has closed the Washington, DC office of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) in the National Press Building. Former Attorney General John Ashcroft, a supporter of the MEK while a Republican Senator, raided the home of NCRI spokesperson Alireza Jafarzadeh and took boxes of documents from his home.

The following are some of the deceptive tactics contained in Ali Safavi’s article:

1. He introduced himself as a sociologist and as someone who has studied the history of the MEK. While it is true that he studied sociology at the University of Michigan, he has been actively involved in the MEK as a military commander and as a spokesperson for the NCRI. A photograph of Ali Safavi in military uniform is posted at: http://www.iran-interlink.org/files/info/Safavi.htm

Anne Singleton and her husband Massoud Khodabandeh know the MEK well. Anne Singleton was involved with the MEK for nearly 20 years. She is the author of the book, Saddam’s Private Army. Massoud Khodabandeh was an MEK commander, too. Anne Singleton’s Web site in the United Kingdom, Iran Interlink, is an excellent source of the truth about the MEK.

2. Ali Safavi claims that the most anti-MEK Web sites in America are left-wing Web sites. Of course, he did not cite even one example of a left-wing Web site critical of the MEK. The truth is that the major American Web sites critical of the MEK are right-wing, not left-wing. Examples of right-wing Web sites publishing authors critical of the MEK: (a) Traitors USA http://groups.yahoo.com/group/traitorsusa/

(b) Antiwar.com http://www.antiwar.com/

Traitors USA is my Yahoo! Group specializing in the Iranian Communist MEK (Rajavi Cult) terrorists and the Democrats and Republicans who support the MEK. My Republican Party credentials are easy to check in the public records. In 1990, while I lived in Los Angeles County, California, Republican voters elected me to the Republican County Central Committee. In 1992, I was a Republican candidate for California State Assembly, endorsed by the California Republican Assembly. Now that I live in Orange County, California, it is a matter of public record that I am a registered Republican. The Web site of California’s Secretary of State discloses my contributions to conservative Republican candidates. Next to the door of my office at California State University, Fullerton is information on how students can join David Horowitz’s Students for Academic Freedom: http://www.studentsforacademicfreedom.org/

In a few minutes, anyone who cares to do Internet searches can find postings about me as a Republican professor at California State University, Fullerton. Even as an undergraduate student at the University of Michigan, I was an active member of the College Republicans. I have never been in the left wing.

Many Americans who rely upon comedians or the evening television news might think that Antiwar.com must be left-wing. The American media continues to publish lies that only left-wing activists are anti-war. For years, right-wing writers at Antiwar.com have been exposing the lies of the Iranian Communist MEK (Rajavi Cult) terrorists. The most prolific critic of the MEK at Antiwar.com has been Justin Raimondo. Justin Raimondo is a former Libertarian Party and Republican Party candidate for public offices. Justin Raimondo is the author of the book, Reclaiming the American Right: The Lost Legacy of the Conservative Movement

LewRockwell.com is anti-state, anti-war, pro-market. It is an important resource for writings supporting capitalism. A search for MEK will return articles exposing the MEK.

As a right-wing author, I do submit articles or comments critical of the MEK across the entire political spectrum. I have had some success with postings at progressive Web sites.

The background paper for my September 15, 2005 speech to a Libertarian Party group is available at:

http://www.liberty66.org/

The title of the speech was “Libertarians and the Iranian Communist MEK (Rajavi Cult) Terrorists”.

So, while it is possible to find some postings critical of the MEK at left-wing Web sites, I rely upon right-wing Web sites to find large numbers of postings critical of the Iranian Communist MEK (Rajavi Cult) terrorists.

3. Ali Safavi did not include the red, communist flag of the MEK. Kenneth Timmerman has posted some photographs of MEK demonstrators near the United Nations Building on September 14, 2005 at: http://www.iran.org/news/24-Irandemos.htm

The American military has permitted the MEK to continue to fly its communist flag at Camp Ashraf, Iraq:

http://www.iranian.com/PhotoDay/2003/April/base6.html

4. Ali Safavi has not written a true account of the embarrassment of some members of Congress for signing Iran statements. While the January 15, 2003 New York Times contained a full-page advertisement by MEK supporters, the advertisement listed only six of the members of Congress. Republican Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen refused to release all of the 150 names she claimed supported the MEK. For a more accurate account of the members of Congress, see Sam Dealey’s “Rep. Ros-Lehtinen defends Iranian group labeled terrorist front for Saddam Hussein” (The Hill, April 8, 2003, http://www.thehill.com/news/040803/roslehtinen.aspx)

5. Ali Safavi’s history of the MEK failed to include that both MEK and Islamic leaders were prisoners in the same jails during the reign of the Shah of Iran. Islamic leaders of Iran know that the MEK is 100% communist and 0% Islamic. A popular Persian term for the MEK can be translated as two-faced.

6. Massoud Rajavi, the supreme leader of the MEK, learned from Iranian history that the pro-Stalin Tudeh Party failed to sell godless communism in Islamic Iran. Massoud Rajavi thought that the techniques of Che Guevara and of the liberation theology in Latin America would be a more successful model for a communist takeover of Iran. Roman Catholic popes have been strong opponents of liberation theology. Ali Safavi is wrong about Roman Catholic positions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_theology

7. The MEK have committed terrible atrocities against Kurds in Iraq. To save bullets for Iran, the MEK ran over Kurdish civilians with armored personnel carriers or tanks. The American military has interviewed hundreds of MEK terrorists at Camp Ashraf, Iraq and has identified many who should be tried for war crimes. See: Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball’s “Shades of Gray” (Newsweek, October 13, 2004, http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6242223/site/newsweek)

8. Ali Safavi’s tales of the treatment of MEK members at Camp Ashraf, Iraq are pure fiction. The MEK’s leaders hate any MEK members who try to leave the MEK. Near Camp Ashraf, Iraq is Camp Freedom, Iraq. At Camp Freedom, Iraq, there are approximately 200 former members of the MEK who were able to escape from Camp Ashraf, Iraq. Ali Safavi failed to mention that the MEK has tortured for many years many MEK members who attempted to leave Camp Ashraf, Iraq. Some MEK members died during the MEK torture at Camp Ashraf, Iraq. For details, read books by former MEK members: (a) Anne Singleton’s Saddam’s Private Army

http://www.iran-interlink.org/files/child%20pages/book_I-I.htm (b) Masoud Banisadr’s Masoud.

9. Ali Safavi’s description of the roles of women in the MEK is fantasy. He failed to mention some details covered in books by Anne Singleton and Masoud Banisadr, such as: (a) mandatory divorces (b) segregation of men and women at Camp Ashraf, Iraq (c) mandatory assignment of spouses for MEK leaders (d) mandatory confession of masturbation. Ali Safavi can start by writing the truth about how Maryam Rajavi became the third wife of Massoud Rajavi. Members of the right wing who claim to support family values will reject the Pol Pot of Iran.

10. Ali Safavi failed to disclose that even foreign reporters at Camp Ashraf, Iraq have written about the celebrations of the murders of Americans. Iranians who lived in Tehran during the American hostage crisis know that the MEK were demanding the executions of all of the American hostages. Ayatollah Khomeini refused the demands of the MEK. Ali Safavi failed to disclose that the Persian language Web sites and satellite television programs of the MEK have anti-Western, anti-imperialist content. The MEK rose to power in Iran in the 1960’s and 1970’s by being the most anti-Shah and most anti-Western terrorist group in Iran. There are posted videotapes of Massoud Rajavi meeting with leaders of Saddam Hussein’s government in Iraq. The anti-Western, anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist ideology of the MEK is common knowledge to any Iranian who lived in Iran before the Iranian Revolution.

11. Ali Safavi failed to disclose the location of the MEK’s supreme leader, Massoud Rajavi. Recent posted reports include claims that the American military is keeping Massoud Rajavi at Camp Mercury, Iraq. The reports do not include whether Massoud Rajavi is being kept for future war crimes trials in Iraq or is being protected by the American military.

In a few minutes, anyone can perform an Internet search for “Ali Safavi”. They will discover that he has been speaking for the NCRI or the MEK for many years. They will discover that many famous American newspapers have quoted him without bothering to check the accuracy of anything he says. Michael Rubin was correct in concluding that the writings of Ali Safavi are dishonest but useful. The real villains in this case are the idiots and dupes in the American media who cannot be troubled to publish truthful, investigative reporting about the Iranian Communist MEK (Rajavi Cult) terrorists.

At Traitors USA, you can find my exchanges of emails with Ali Safavi. When he discovered that I graduated, too, from the University of Michigan and am a professor, he found it difficult to attack my academic credentials. While he describes himself as a sociologist, he fails to disclose on which faculty he serves or in any other way he works as a sociologist. His fictional tales about the MEK do not work with me. I have known MEK members for 37 years. While I was a doctoral student at Michigan State University, I attended MEK meetings. I studied Persian at Harvard University and met a Harvard professor who writes truthfully about Iran. Professor Richard N. Frye’s Greater Iran is a truthful story of an American professor who spent 60 years researching Iran and the surrounding areas: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1568591772/qid=1138430187/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-4092926-4396717?s=books&v=glance&n=283155

Relatives of my Iranian wife of 37 years have died fighting for the MEK.

The Iranian Communist MEK (Rajavi Cult) terrorists publish daily large amounts of print, television, and of Internet media lies. Unfortunately, most American journalists are either too stupid or too dishonest to expose America’s communist terrorist enemies.

I am a Professor of Accounting who has graduated from the University of Michigan, Harvard Business School, and from Michigan State University. As a life-long registered Republican and as an elected member of the Los Angeles County Republican Central Committee, I have always been in the right wing of the political spectrum. Ali Safavi’s statements about left-wing attacks on the MEK are misleading. While you can find some progressive Web sites critical of the MEK, you can find communist Web sites supporting the MEK.

During the Vietnam War, I volunteered and served in the Army in Vietnam to fight the communists. If I were young enough to serve in the Army today, I would not join the Army to further the goals of corrupt Democrats and Republicans in Congress who support the communist overthrow of Iran by the Iranian Communist MEK (Rajavi Cult) terrorists.

From Lenin to Fidel Castro to Pol Pot, there have been some evil American political and business interests who have supported the communist takeovers of countries. Americans need to cancel subscriptions to any newspapers supporting or publishing lies about the Iranian Communist MEK (Rajavi Cult) terrorists. Americans need to vote out of office all Democrats and Republicans who accept campaign contributions from the Iranian Communist MEK (Rajavi Cult) terrorists’ supporters.

Professor Paul Sheldon Foote

California State University, Fullerton, pfoote@fullerton.edu

January 27, 2006

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Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

MEK’s Gratitude for NYTimes and IHT Articles

One of the major news stories today on the Iranian satellite television channel Simaye Azadi was the favorable news coverage the MEK (Rajavi Cult) received on September 24, 2005 in the New York Times and in the International Herald Tribune. Craig S. Smith’s article appeared as “Exiled Iranians Try to Foment Revolution From France” in the New York Times and as “An implacable opponent to the mullahs of Iran” in the International Herald Tribune.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/24/international/europe/24rajavi.html

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/09/23/news/profile.php

Both newspapers reported the statements of Maryam Rajavi during an interview at MEK headquarters in Auvers-Sur-Oise, France. While the reporter raised questions about or mentioned frequent criticisms of the MEK (cult organization, mandatory divorce, members burning themselves to death, the unusual marriage of Massoud Rajavi and of Maryam Rajavi), the newspapers published Maryam Rajavi’s responses without identifying factual errors. For example:

“She denies that the movement ever accepted financial support from Iraq or fought against Iraqi Shiites and Kurds on Mr. Hussein’s behalf, as some people claim.”

Smith included a description of Maryam Rajavi that readers of the New York Times who believed that Fidel Castro was the “George Washington of Cuba” will find endearing: “She speaks volumes on a Castro-like scale”- The New York Times’ support for Castro’s 1959 takeover of Cuba was so strong that the National Review responded by placing a picture of Fidel Castro on its cover with the words: “I got my job through the New York Times”.

http://www.etherzone.com/2002/bren013002.shtml

On September 12, 2002, President George W. Bush spoke to the United Nations General Assembly. His Office of the Press Secretary distributed a background paper supporting his remarks: "A Decade of Deception and Defiance". The section “Saddam Hussein’s Support for International Terrorism” included the MEK and did not include al-Qaeda:

“Iraq shelters terrorist groups including the Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO), which has used terrorist violence against Iran and in the 1970s was responsible for killing several U.S. military personnel and U.S. civilians.”

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/09/20020912.html

President George W. Bush employed two major pretexts to dupe Americans into supporting the Iraq War: (1) extend the war on terror to Iraq, a major sponsor of terrorist organizations such as the MEK (2) find and destroy weapons of mass destruction before Saddam Hussein uses the weapons or sells the weapons to terrorists.

The New York Times and the International Herald Tribune have published claims contrary to American government reports. On October 13, 2004, Newsweek published “Shades of Gray” by Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6242223/site/newsweek

The Newsweek article contains details counter to New York Times and International Herald Tribune articles:

1. Chief U.S. weapons inspector Charles Duelfer’s report includes evidence that Saddam Hussein allocated approximately $16 million of oil to the MEK over a 4-year period prior to the Iraq War. Saddam Hussein made the allocations using the United Nations-managed Oil-for-Food program. Saddam Hussein signed approvals to add any group to the Oil Allocation Recipient List.

2. The MEK’s response was that Iranian intelligence agents must have been involved with placing the MEK on the list!

3. MEK war crimes in Iraq:

But a U.S. official told NEWSWEEK that more recent reporting from Camp Ashraf indicates that about 40 MEK members have been identified as possible candidates for prosecution. Most likely, the official said, the prosecutions would take place in Iraq, where MEK members might be charged with crimes against humanity or war crimes associated with assistance they provided Saddam’s regime including acting as a paramilitary force to suppress uprisings by the Shia. Another handful, perhaps four to six, might be brought to the United States for prosecution for terrorist-related acts or other crimes, the official said.”

Quiz: Who is publishing the truth about the MEK: Maryam Rajavi, New York Times and the International Herald Tribune, President George W. Bush, or Newsweek?

Please email your answers and references to: traitorsusa@yahoogroups.com

References

“A Decade of Deception and Defiance”, Office of the Press Secretary, The White House, September 12, 2002.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/09/20020912.html

Brennan, Phil, “The New York Times: The “Newspaper of Record”- Some Record, Ether Zone, January 30, 2002.

http://www.etherzone.com/2002/bren013002.shtml

Isikoff, Michael, and Mark Hosenball, “Shades of Gray”, Newsweek, October 13, 2004.

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