{"id":3767,"date":"2011-07-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/2011\/07\/06\/bachmann-and-the-mujahideen-e-khalq\/"},"modified":"2021-01-21T19:07:07","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T15:37:07","slug":"bachmann-and-the-mujahideen-e-khalq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/posts\/3767","title":{"rendered":"Bachmann and the Mujahideen e-Khalq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Once again Michael Rubin ,prominent American Journalist criticizes Western politicians for their notoriously accelerated support for Mujahedin Khalq (MEK) , in this case particularly Ms. Bachmann; US presidential Candidate: <\/em><br \/> <em><img width=\"80\"vspace=\"10\"hspace=\"10\"height=\"102\"align=\"left\"src=\"https:\/\/st.nejatngo.org\/Image\/Writer\/Michael-Rubin.jpg\"alt=\"Michael Rubin\"\/><\/em><br \/> While I welcome Rep. Michele Bachmann&rsquo;s presence in the presidential debate, I am agnostic on her candidacy. Certainly, she has a compelling personal story. Because I believe in small government, prioritize individual liberty and freedom, and am libertarian on most social issues, I also sympathize with the Tea Party movement, and I certainly also value a strong national defense. That said, I also believe the science supporting the theory of evolution is compelling and that science, rather than religion, should form the basis of science classes, and so I am somewhat put off by Bachmann&rsquo;s apparent support of intelligent design. When push comes to shove, however, national security is my key issue. <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"> <img width=\"240\"vspace=\"10\"hspace=\"10\"height=\"160\"src=\"https:\/\/st.nejatngo.org\/Image\/Politician\/USA\/Bachmann_L.jpg\"alt=\"\"\/><\/div>\n<p> I was disappointed, therefore, to see Bachmann&rsquo;s uncritical support for the Mujahideen e-Khalq Organization (MKO), which the State Department defines as a terror group. While I agree the human rights abuses perpetrated by the Islamic Republic against MKO members and I also welcome the debate on whether the MKO is a terrorist group or not (I believe it is), there are certain incontrovertible facts: (1) the MKO has targeted Americans in past terrorist attacks; (2) they have embraced Saddam; (3) they operate as a cult which remains hostile to freedom, liberty, and democracy; and (4), they have very little if any support among Iranians in Iran.<\/p>\n<p> <em>He Warns Rep. Michele Bachmann about the danger of sponsoring an &ldquo;undemocratic Cult&rdquo; : <\/em><\/p>\n<p> Embrace of Masoud and Maryam Rajavi&rsquo;s cult would be analogous to embrace of Pol Pot&rsquo;s Khmer Rouge. ..<br \/> Having lived and traveled in Iran, the best analogy to understand how Iranians feel about the MKO is to imagine how Americans would react if, in a misguided attempt to show solidarity with Americans, some outside force promoted John Walker Lindh as a force for freedom. The logic of &ldquo;the enemy of my enemy is my friend&rdquo; does not always hold true. If Bachmann wants to be serious on Iran, she should repudiate Obama&rsquo;s naive outreach, but she shouldn&rsquo;t accept the propaganda of an equally undemocratic cult.<\/p>\n<p> Michael Rubin &#8211; Commentary Magazine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was disappointed, therefore, to see Bachmann\u2019s uncritical support for the Mujahideen e-Khalq Organization (MKO\/MEK\/PMOI), which the State Department defines as a terror group&#8230;I also welcome the debate on whether the MKO is a terrorist group or not (I believe it is), there are certain incontrovertible facts: (1) the MKO has targeted Americans in past terrorist attacks; (2) they have embraced Saddam; (3) they operate as a cult which remains hostile to freedom, liberty, and democracy; and (4), they have very little if any support among Iranians in Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":-1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[112,85,20],"module":[81],"ctype":[17],"blog":[109],"class_list":["post-3767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mujahedin-khalq-proxy-force","tag-hot-topics","tag-mujahedin-khalq-terrorism","tag-third-view-mek","module-article","ctype-story","blog-western-bloggers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3767"},{"taxonomy":"module","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/module?post=3767"},{"taxonomy":"ctype","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctype?post=3767"},{"taxonomy":"blog","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog?post=3767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}