Right wingers in witch hunt for violent Islamic groups quietly support a group on US terror list

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from OurFuture.org:



Terrorism Awareness Indeed
Submitted by Rick Perlstein on October 19, 2007 - 4:38pm.


During the week of October 22-26, an official announcement effuses, “The nation will be rocked by the biggest conservative campus protest ever – Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, a wake-up call for Americans on 200 university and college campuses.” Ringmastered by David Horowitz, this circus will be performing under the tent of something called the "Terrorism Awareness Project.”

The purpose of this ballyhoolooza, we are told, is to confront the “Big Lies” of the Left regarding terrorism and militant Islam. Worthy subjects, to be sure. Indeed I would like to help the sponsors of the “wake-up call” promote awareness of them. Toward this end, let’s consider the American Right’s “special relationship” with one group of terrorists.

The U.S. State Department officially considers the Mujahedeen-e Khalq (MEK) a Foreign Terrorist Organization. While those honors date back to 1994, they’ve been renewed during the Bush years. Indeed in 2003 Foggy Bottom went further, including the National Council of Resistance of Iran — an MEK alias — under the terrorist designation. (The MEK is also known as the People’s Mujahedeen.)

To make a long and bizarre story short, the MEK got its start in early 1960s Iran, helped overthrow the Shah in 1979, but quickly turned on the revolutionary government it helped bring to power. Employing an ideological blend of Stalinism and Islamism, the tactics of a paramilitary guerilla faction, and the organizational structure of a cult, the group went into exile, eventually making their home in Iraq in the mid-1980s. Not only did Saddam give the organization cover: he armed, funded, and utilized them for a variety of ends over two decades.

The group’s wicked political brew was on spectacular display on the old MEK flag (see below; since abandoned), with its sickle and Kalashnikov positioned atop of a Koranic verse. (Not — to state the obvious — that the mere presence of a Koranic verse in and of itself implies Islamist political commitments, but in this case the shoe very much fits.)

Here you have virtually everything the Right claims to oppose all rolled into one: Islamism, Marxism, terrorism, and Saddam. Naturally, then, neoconservatives would utterly deplore the MEK and everything it stands for, right? The MEK would in fact make an ideal target for Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week and Terrorism Awareness efforts, no? ......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://commonsense.ourfuture.org/terrorism_awareness_indeed?tx=3

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Hartman had horowitz on the show

and it was funny to see him back pedal over Coulter who he sees as an ally

I went... what you fucking moron, perfecting jews means you are going into the oven!

I guess she's ok as long as she is an "ally."

he is an useful idiot...

Oh my, I just quoted Lenin

[marmar]

2. I listened to him.....

A loudmouthed maniac who overcompensates for his lack of facts and honesty by talking really loud......A useful idiot indeed.

[Hydra]

4. Aren't they all useful idiots?

:evilgrin:

[marmar]

6. Almost. Some are pretty useless.

:dunce:

[Richard Steele]

3. K&R

[MisterP]

5. yeah, I went by UCI and saw it covered in signs declaring that "Islamofascists

kill more people per day than the KKK did for 50 years" and also saying that you had to reject Che to be a Real American (huh?). And people are ranting--without provocation, mind you--of "state TV" in the "other, socialist countries" (unlike our free, corporate media). I think they're being primed for something, and something stupid.
soon they'll be stories of Jews Muslims sacrificing children to eat in their unleavened bread, jabbing the Host with awls, trampling the Crucifix, and flying on night sabbats to worship Diana and the Horned God

[creeksneakers2]

7. A Fox commentator is an out of work spokesman for

terrorist group? Incredible! I can still be shocked.