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blm

(113,010 posts)
Mon Jul 11, 2022, 11:59 AM Jul 2022

Shinzo Abe murderer a RightWing Moonie?

Mother is confirmed to be a Moonie. Moonies in America now worship guns as well as Moon, and train regularly for war at their enormous battle camps in Texas, Tennessee, and Pennsylvania.
***He may not be a Moonie now, but likely influenced by the decades of indoctrination into their gun culture.***

https://www.businessinsider.com/shinzo-abe-shooting-suspect-mother-moonie-unification-church-confirms-2022-7?utm_medium=social

Tomihiro Tanaka, the president of the Japan branch of the Unification Church — formally known as the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification — confirmed at a Monday press conference that the suspect's mother was a follower, Reuters reported.

https://www.timesnews.net/opinion/blogs/pro-trump-group-plans-training-center-in-tennessee/article_553a35f2-37f5-11ec-a596-1744fd68abd1.html

Pro-Trump group plans 'training center' in Tennessee
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A “church” administrator, Gregg Noll, told Sam Luther with WVLT in Knoxville that the reason East Tennessee was selected was our beautiful scenery, the people and the conservative values of Tennessee.

He said, “As a church, we really support the use of firearms, we do firearms training all the time ....”

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Deep State Witch

(10,409 posts)
1. The Suspect Is Apparently Not
Mon Jul 11, 2022, 12:03 PM
Jul 2022

I think the story is that the shooter's mother got involved with the "religious organization" and the shooter was upset about it.

PoliticAverse

(26,366 posts)
2. No, he's apparently an anti-moonie who blamed the Unification Church for ruining his parent's lives.
Mon Jul 11, 2022, 12:06 PM
Jul 2022
The suspect, Tetsuya Yamagami, 41, reportedly harbored a grudge against Abe over what he believed were the lawmaker's ties to the group


https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/07/11/national/crime-legal/abe-assassination-unification-church/

blm

(113,010 posts)
11. Exactly. He was THAT determined to brandish a gun.
Mon Jul 11, 2022, 12:22 PM
Jul 2022

The gun has become a big part of Moonie indoctrination.

How many average Japanese citizens would go to that length to own a gun?

llashram

(6,265 posts)
10. thank you for link
Mon Jul 11, 2022, 12:21 PM
Jul 2022

and I know she was cajoled and continuously encouraged to give up the cash to the Sung Mung Moon church. That is their thing. Hundreds of millions of dollars to help the RW in this country. How do I know? In 1975 I was encouraged to attend their 'meetings'. If they had no reason to keep you you were not encouraged to stay, I ended up a driver of their bus to their private retreat in Massachusetts.

I did this for a few months until one day out in the woods around their 'retreat' I heard screaming and started to move toward it. This was a moony just screaming and screaming alone. I asked if I could help and she started screaming at me. I backed off, went back to the bus drove back to Boston and quit that very day.

The look in that moonies eyes scared me. How could she be driven to such madness at life, religion??? All I know is Sung Mung Moon was supposed to be the return of Jesus and I realized that was a lie. He was just a typical religious charlatan who made millions with his 'church'. And now these quasi-military camps are 'training' his followers to do what?!? WTF!

PoliticAverse

(26,366 posts)
12. They were one of the several extreme religious cults prominant in New York City years ago...
Mon Jul 11, 2022, 12:25 PM
Jul 2022

(everyone knew about "the Moonies" ).

From 2011...
https://observer.com/2011/06/caught-between-the-moonies-and-new-york-city-the-new-yorker-hotels-office-idea/

Not quite as recognizable as the Hare Krishnas on the street though.




spanone

(135,791 posts)
13. He said, "As a church, we really support the use of firearms, we do firearms training all the time .
Mon Jul 11, 2022, 12:30 PM
Jul 2022

and Jesus wept.

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