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User talk:StephenG

2008-05-02T21:22:02Z

StephenG:

You may add only trustworthy information to articles. If you want to start a debate, you know we have [[Debate Topics]]. Your COI accusation is unfounded. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] [[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]] 11:01, 30 April 2008 (EDT)

==שַׁבָּת שָׁלוֹם==
?מַה שְׁלוֹם הַמִשְׁפָּחָה

[[Image:User Fox.png|10px]] [[User:Fox|Fox]] ([[User talk:Fox|talk]]|[[Special:Contributions/Fox|contribs]]) 17:11, 2 May 2008 (EDT)

שָׁלוֹם שַׁבָּת 
לְהִתְרָאוֹת אַחַר כָּך

[[User:StephenG|StephenG]] 17:22, 2 May 2008 (EDT)

Talk:Jewish Defense Organization

2008-05-02T20:57:26Z

StephenG:

I thought it was called Jewish Defense League -- [[Image:50 star flag.png|12px]] [[User:Deborah]] [[Special:Contributions/Deborah|(contributions)]] [[User_talk:Deborah|(talk)]] 16:56, 2 May 2008 (EDT)
:Then you thought wrong. The JDO was formed by off-shoot members from the JDL. [[User:StephenG|StephenG]] 16:57, 2 May 2008 (EDT)

Jewish Defense Organization

2008-05-02T20:55:34Z

StephenG: New page: The Jewish Defense Organization (JDO) is a conservative Jewish organization in the United States founded in 1985 by Mordechai Levy, currently its National Director....

The [[Jewish Defense Organization]] (JDO) is a [[conservative]] [[Judaism|Jewish]] organization in the [[United States]] founded in 1985 by Mordechai Levy, currently its National Director. It focuses on combatting [[anti-Semitism]] and [[holocaust denial]], and although represented across the USA, has a strong presence in and around [[New York City]]. It also maintains ''Camp Jabotinsky'', a self-defense and weapons-training center in the [[Catskills]]. The JDO regularly provides pro-active safety campaigns within predominantly Jewish neighbourhoods. It has frequently been forced to respond to anti-Semitic activity by providing custodian-teams in [[Manhattan]].

The JDO strongly opposes [[gun control]] for the reason that "It's better to have a gun and not need it, than to need it and not have it!"<ref>Levy, Mordechai ''Jewish Youth Learn To Shoot'' [http://jewishdefense.org/jab.htm Camp Jabotinsky]</ref> Levy stated: "The fact is neo-nazis today and yesterday's nazis are cowards that are very good at shooting Jewish children. Now, if they had to face highly disciplined well trained legally armed Jews don't you think that the pejorative "tables" and guns would have been turned? Who would they have been turned on? The neo-nazis who think think the entire Jewish community is an easy mark and every Jew a potential victim. We must learn from the mistakes of the past or we are doomed to repeat them."<ref>[http://jewishdefense.org/jab.htm Mordechai Levy] quoted at Camp Jabotinsky website</ref>

==References==
<references/>

Christian Identity

2008-05-02T20:13:31Z

StephenG: /* Known Christian Identity organizations */

[[Image:Wickstrom nazi.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Leading Christian Identity pastor James Wickstrom: "''The only way to totally eliminate racial strife in the United States and throughout the world is to bury every Jew on earth.''"]]
'''Christian Identity''' is a white supremacist movement which asserts that the "[[Aryan]]", or white people of [[Europe|European]] descent, are the descendants of the [[Lost Tribes of Israel]] of the [[Bible]], and that the [[Jews]] are not, but are rather the offspring of [[Satan]]. They believe that while [[Adam]] and [[Eve]] were white people created in the image of [[God]], non-white people ("mud people") were created separately from whites, and they generally assert that [[salvation]] is only available to white people. While they claim Christianity as their religion, the Christian community rejects their claim and find their position to be abhorrent and at odds with Christian beliefs. Christian Identity groups or churches can be found in virtually every region of the United States, although they are small in number, having between 2,000 to 50,000 adherents. It has also engaged in [[crime|criminal]] behavior ranging from [[hate crime]]s to acts of [[terrorism]].

==Background==
The religion grew from '''British-Israelism''' and moved to the [[United States]] in the 1930s, becoming increasingly [[Anti-Semitism|anti-Semitic]] under the leadership of [[Wesley Swift]] who founded the [[Church of Jesus Christ Christian]]. Within Christian Identity some adherents believe in Swift's "two-seed" theory that the [[seduction of Eve]] by the Serpent was sexual, resulting in the conception of [[Cain]] who was the father of the Jewish people; thus all Jews are descendants of the devil. Some Identity adherents assert a "one-seed" theory. The religion also incorporates [[millennialism]] or the belief that the world is in its final days.

Lenny Zeskind, research director of the Center for Democratic Renewal: "Identity is based on the premise that the Jews are literally Children of Satan - the seed of Cain, that people of color are 'pre-Adamic' mud people - God's failures before perfecting Adam, and that white Christian Aryans are the 'Lost Sheep of the House of Israel' - God's chosen people, and therefore America is the biblical promised land... Christian Identity binds together a number of previously isolated groups...Important sections of the [[Ku Klux Klan]], the [[neo-Nazi]] movement, the [[Posse Comitatus]], the [[Aryan Nations]], and other groups have adopted Identity theology."<ref>Berlet, Chip [http://www.publiceye.org/rightist/idennlns.html ''A New Face for Racism & Fascism''] Political research associates. Accessed 1 march 2008</ref>

Many Identity adherents believe Jews, blacks, [[Communism|communists]], [[Homosexuality|homosexuals]] and race-traitors have seized control of the United States. They refer to [[Washington, D.C.]] as the '''Zionist Occupational Government''' (ZOG). The novel "''[[The Turner Diaries]]''" in which an underground white army leads a revolution against ZOG is popular among them.

Not all Ku Klux Klan groups adhere entirely to Christian Identity, but those that do call themselves the '''Fifth Era Klan''', which was introduced to mark what they hoped would be the fifth period of growth by the Klan since its inception.

==General beliefs==
Persons who believe in Christian Identity generally:
* support White Power & Aryan Supremacy
* believe in black [[gene|genetic]] inferiority
* believe in a [[fiction]]al romanticized notion of Aryan culture
* are virulently anti-communist;
* manifest a [[jingoism|jingoistic]] [[patriotism]]
* mistrust [[government]] & [[law enforcement]];
* fear black power
* see media coverage of non-Aryans as a Jewish-Communist Plot
* believe black politicians are pawns of Jews;
* believe black activism is directed from [[Moscow]] or [[Tel Aviv]]
* often practice armed [[survivalism]] as a defensive necessity.

==Anti-Semitism==
Leading Christian Identity [[pastor]] [[James Wickstrom]], regarding the Nazi story, [http://aish.com/holocaust/overview/he05k06a.htm "The Poisonous Mushroom"]has stated:
<blockquote> ''Just as poisonous mushrooms spring up everywhere, so the Jew is found in every country in the world. Just as poisonous mushrooms often lead to the most dreadful calamity, so the Jew is the cause of misery and distress, illness and death. The above tale tells the truth about the Jewish poison mushroom. They show the many shapes the Jew assumes. They show the depravity and baseness of the Jewish race. They show the Jew for what he really is: The Devil in human form.''</blockquote>

On the Jews as "a mongrel blood race" Wickstrom states:<blockquote>''And it is proven fact, that the jews and Whites are of a different race. It also shows in itself as to how the jews have financed the Blacks, who were unknowing of the jews plan to use them against the Whites. The jews are of Asiatic blood. They are a mongrel blood race, whose desire is to destroy all pure races on this earth using racial mongrelization (diversity and pluralism), mainly against the White race, the Black race, and the Oriental Race.</blockquote>

Wickstrom advocates the mass killing of Jewish people: the Southern Poverty Law Center cited an interview<ref>Buchanan, Susy [http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=507 ''Return of the Pastor''] SPLC. Accessed 11 March 2008</ref> with Wickstrom in which he proposed giving Jewish people "the holocaust they rightly deserve:"<blockquote>''I'd like to see these Jews all be brought to the VA [Veterans Administration hospital] and wooden chairs be put down on the lawn. Tie the Jews in. Bring these veterans down who have been mutilated, physically mutilated, their lives ruined without the opportunity of a family or children, and give them baseball bats and let them beat these Jews to death! Every one of them! Take these chairs and Jews after they're beaten to death, throw 'em in the wood chipper! And from the wood chipper let the remains go into a big incinerary truck, which is right behind the wood chipper, and give them the holocaust they rightly deserve!''</blockquote>

==Terrorism==
In North Dakota in 1983, Identity believer Gordon Kahl killed two U.S. Marshals who had come to arrest him for a parole violation. A four-month manhunt ended in another shootout in [[Arkansas]], where Kahl killed a local sheriff before he himself was killed.

The same year, the white supremacist terrorist group known as '''The Order''' began a series of armed robberies, murders and counterfeiting operations. Several members of the gang belonged to Christian Identity, including David Tate, who in 1985 killed a Missouri State Highway Patrol officer attempting to reach an Identity survivalist compound called ''The Covenant, the Sword, and the Arm of the Lord'' (CSA). An ensuing standoff resulted in the demise of the CSA and the arrest of its leadership. Subsequently, several Christian Identity groups attempted to follow in the footsteps of The Order, including '''The Order II''' and the '''Arizona Patriots''', who committed bombings and an attempted armored car robbery, respectively.

In the 1990s, Christian Identity criminal activity included efforts by an [[Oklahoma]] Identity minister, Willie Ray Lampley, to commit a series of bombings in the summer of 1995 in the wake of the [[Oklahoma City bombing]] by [[Timothy McVeigh]]. The following year, the '''Montana Freemen''', whose leaders were Identity, made headlines for their "paper terrorism" tactics and their 81-day standoff with the federal government. In 1998, Eric Rudolph, who had been associated with Identity ministers such as Nord Davis and Dan Gayman, became a fugitive after bombing gay bars, the Atlanta Summer Olympics, and an [[abortion]] clinic. The following year, Buford Furrow went on a shooting spree at a Jewish Community Center in [[Los Angeles]], wounding four children and an adult, and later killing a Filipino-American postal worker

Another example of Christian Identity terrorism can be found in the concept of the '''Phineas Priesthood''', set forth by Richard Kelly Hoskins in his 1990 book ''Vigilantes of Christendom''. The Priesthood is based on the concept of the obscure Biblical character [[Phinehas]], an Israelite who used a spear to slay a "race-mixing" fellow Israelite and the Midianite woman with whom he had sex. Hoskins conjured up the idea of an elite class of "Phineas Priests," self-anointed warriors who would use extreme measures to attack race-mixers, gays, or abortionists, among other targets. Over the years, some have committed crimes using the Phineas Priest label, including a group of about eight who committed bombings and bank robberies in the [[Spokane]], Washington, area in 1996 (four of whom were caught and sentenced to lengthy prison terms). In 2002, two Aryan Nations splinter groups openly adopted Phineas Priest names or symbols.<ref>[http://www.adl.org/learn/ext_us/Christian_Identity.asp?xpicked=4&item=Christian_ID ''Christian Identity''] ADL. Accessed 11 March 2008</ref>

==Christian Identity influences==
*[[Howard Rand]]
*[[William Cameron]]
*[[Wesley Swift]]
*[[Bertrand Comparet]]
*[[Richard Butler]]
*[[William Potter Gale]]
*[[James K. Warner]]
*[[Sheldon Emry]]
*[[Dave Barley]]
*[[Pete Peters]]

==Known Christian Identity organizations==
*America's Promise Ministries
*Aryan Nations
*Aryan Nations/Tabernacle of the Phineas Priesthood
*Christian Research
*Church of Israel
*Church of the True Israel
*Fellowship of God's Covenant People
*Gospel Ministries
*Imperial Klans of America
*Kingdom Identity Ministries
*Mission to Israel
*[[New Christian Crusade Church]]
*Our Savior's Church (Gainesville, MO)
*Present Truth Ministries
*Scriptures for America/La Porte Church of Christ
*Sheriff's Posse Comitatus
*Stone Kingdom Ministries
*Thomas Robb Ministries/Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
*Virginia Christian Israelites
*Virginia Publishing Company
*White Camelia Knights
*Elohim City (Adair County, OK)

==References==
{{reflist|small}}

==Sources==
* Kaplan, Jeffrey. ''Radical Religion In America'' (Syracuse University Press, 1997).

[[Category:Hate Groups]]

New Christian Crusade Church

2008-05-02T19:09:41Z

StephenG: New page: The New Christian Crusade Church is a Christian sect based in Mandeville, Louisiana. They follow a doctrine which states: "Only one race today answers in every detail t...

The [[New Christian Crusade Church]] is a [[Christian]] sect based in [[Mandeville]], [[Louisiana]]. They follow a [[doctrine]] which states: "Only one race today answers in every detail to the [[Bible]] picture of [[Israel]] in the latter days, and that is the Adamic European descended race."<ref>[http://newchristiancrusadechurch.com/ "What we believe: doctrine of the New Christian Crusade Church"]</ref>

==See also==
*[[Christian Identity]]

==References==
<references/>

Unificationism

2008-04-30T14:56:34Z

StephenG: replace referenced legitinmate info of iterest to our readers; avoid COI please

The '''Unification Church''' was founded in 1954 by [[Sun Myung Moon]], a [[Christian]] minister from northern [[Korea]] and the founder of the [[Washington Times]]. The church's adherents are commonly known as "Moonies." It preaches a universalist doctrine of salvation based on a doctrine called the Unification Principle. <ref>The church's teachings are written in Korean, and were re-translated in 1996 as ''Exposition of the Divine Principle'' [http://www.unification.net/dp96/] </ref> Rev. Moon, calling himself the Lord of the Second Advent, believes he is the new [[messiah]], sent to complete the elimination of evil, the establishment of a perfect society on earth and the cleansing of mankind of [[Original sin]]. Moon, who has been accused of serial [[adultery]] and [[fornication]]<ref>Moon has been "married" three times. He has admitted to at least one illegitimate child, Hee Jin Moon.</ref>, has stated "Even God lies very often."

==Controversy==
The Church has been dogged by charges of [[anti-Semitism]] for many years, and in 1976 the American Jewish Committee published the report ''Jews and Judaism in Rev. Moon's Divine Principle'', noting "every time Rev. Moon mentions Jews or Israelites he portrays them collectively as reprobate, with evil intentions." As recently as 2003 Moon stated in a sermon at Arlington, [[Virginia]] that the death of six million [[Judaism|Jews]] in the [[Holocaust]] was a form of divine retribution: "Through the principle of indemnity Hitler killed 6 million Jews. That is why. God could not prevent Satan from doing that because Israel killed the True Parents."<ref>[http://www.unification.net/news/2003/news20030302_1.html Sermon] 2 March 2003</ref>

The movement has also been dogged with allegations that their followers are [[Brainwashing|brainwashed]], and that the movement preys "on the discontent, anger and disenfranchisement of the young, transforming their youthful concepts and values into the dogma of Reverend Sun Myung Moon."<ref>Harry V. Martin and David Caul (1992) [http://sonic.net/sentinel/1earth4.html ''Moonies: How they recruit young people''] The Napa Sentinel</ref>

In ''Gift of Deceit'' Robert Boettcher states: "The American System is ill-equipped to deal with Moon. He knows this and benefits from it. He can break some laws and use others for protection. By perverting freedom of religion, he can keep thousands of people in brainwashed captivity while he intimidates and manipulates the non-Moon world." The book further states, "The United States government believed brainwashing was real enough in the [[Korean War]]. Apparently that was different because [[Communism|Communists]] were doing it to American soldiers. When Moon does it in the name of [[God]] he gets away with it."<ref>ibid</ref>

==Views of other religions==
There is no room for [[Christianity]] within Unification Church doctrine, and Moon warns Christians that they will be "swept away". "Innumerable Christians of today are dashing on the way which they think will lead them to the Kingdom of Heaven. Nevertheless, the road is apt to lead them into hell." He says: "Christians must accept the revelations within [his] Divine Principle and [accept him as] the Lord of the Second Advent or be damned."<ref>Harry V. Martin and David Caul (1992) [http://sonic.net/sentinel/1earth4.html ''Moonies: What Rev. Moon teaches the young''] The Napa Sentinel</ref>

"Moon teaches his followers and captives that Jesus' mission was foredoomed by [[John the Baptist]], who spent his time baptizing people instead of becoming Jesus' obedient disciple for influencing the politics of the Herod regime, and even killing the enemies of Christ. Though Christian beliefs portrays the Virgin birth. Moon teaches that Jesus was a child of adultery, not immaculate conception. "Mary was impregnated by [[Zachariah]] (John the Baptist's father). Jesus had an unhappy home life because [[Joseph]] was jealous of Zachariah and resented Jesus."<ref>ibid</ref>

"Moon also states, "When Jesus grew up he failed as a leader because he was unable to love his disciples enough to motivate them to kill for him or die in his place." Moon says that his love is not weak, like he portrays Jesus. "Since Jesus was incapable of perfect love, owing to his unwholesome upbringing, he was also unable to marry as intended by God," Moon said. "The reason why Jesus died was because he couldn't have a bride. Because there was no preparation of a bride to receive Jesus, that was the cause of his death."<ref>ibid</ref>

"Moon sees Christian churches as furthering [[satan|Satan's]] power. "[[Israel]] was God's chosen nation, but the Jews, falling prey to Satan's power, rejected Jesus. God punished them with centuries of suffering, and finally cleansed them by [[Holocaust|killing six million]] in [[World War II]]. But the Jews had missed their chance. God had to find a new Messiah and a new Adam nation because it is God's principle not to use the same people and the same territory twice," Moon teaches. "Korea was ideally suited for several reasons [for example] it is a peninsula, physically resembling the male sex organ."<ref>ibid</ref>

==Notes==
<references/>

[[category:cults]]

Unificationism

2008-04-30T14:55:30Z

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Sun Myung Moon

2008-04-30T14:54:46Z

StephenG: replace legitimate, referenced information of interest to our readers; Ed Poor has COI issues

[[Image:Rev Moon.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Rev. Sun Myung Moon and Mrs. Hak Ja Han Moon]]
Rev. '''Sun Myung Moon''' (b.1920, [[Korea]]) is the head of the [[Unification Church]] (the "Moonies") and the founder of the [[Washington Times]]. He claims that at the age of 15, [[Jesus]] visited him and asked him to continue the work He had started 2000 years earlier.<ref>[http://www.unification.org/rev_mrs_moon.html Unification Church website] Official biography</ref> During a sermon, Rev. Moon asked any [[Judaism|Jews]] present to raise their hands. When they did, he told them to repent for killing Jesus and claimed that it was as an "indemnity" for this that 6 million Jews were murdered during the [[Holocaust]].<ref>[http://www.unification.net/news/2003/news20030302_1.html Unification Church website] Sermon given at Sheraton National Hotel, Arlington, March 2, 2003</ref> During a visit to the [[United States]], he engaged in a controversial ceremony in which a Congressman crowned him.

==Childhood==

{{quotebox|Where does Father come from? In his childhood, he lived deep in the [[North Korea]]n countryside, in a mountain valley, a place called [[Chung Ju]]. He was a small king; he went all over the valley catching every kind of animal. He really explored the area. There is no fish he didn't know. His radius was a ten-mile area, a big territory for a child. If he didn't know everything about the area-who was living there and what they were doing-he couldn't sleep. Every morning he would go out and explore some more. That is the kind of personality he has. When there was a bully who gave a hard time to the other children, even though Father was very small, he fought against him and protected the smaller children. - Rev. Sun Myung Moon, ''In Yun and Encounter'' [http://www.tparents.org/Moon-Talks/sunmyungmoon90/901104.htm]}}

==Adulthood==
In the immediate post-war period, Moon moved to southern Korea and joined a mystical sect called '''Israel Suo-won''', which preached the imminent arrival of a Korean [[messiah]] and engaged in a sexual ritual called "pikarume," in which the ministers purified women through sexual intercourse, the so-called "blessing of the womb."<ref>Robert Parry [http://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/moon4.html ''Dark Side of Rev. Moon: Truth, Legend & Lies'']</ref> Moon returned to communist-ruled North Korea, and began to spread this message there but was arrested by North Korean authorities on morals charges connected to his sexual rites with young women. In 1950, however, before he had faced trial, [[United Nations]] troops overran the prison where Moon was held and he and all the other inmates were freed.<ref>ibid</ref> He returned to South Korea, where his recruitment of young studentsfrom an all-girls Christian school led to him being arrested again in 1955 for conducting more sexual "purification" rites, according to several U.S. intelligence reports which are now public. Moon was freed three months later because none of the young women would testify for fear of public humiliation, according to an undated FBI summary, released under a Freedom of Information Act request.<ref>ibid</ref>

==The Tragedy of the Six Marys==
In ''The Tragedy of the Six Marys'' one of the earliest Moon disciples, Pak Chung Hwa, detailed the Unification Church teaching of Moon that Jesus was supposed to save mankind by having sex with six ''already-married'' women who would then have sex with other men who would pass on the purification to other women until, eventually, all mankind would have pure blood. Pak related that Moon took on this responsibility as the "second messiah" but abused the practice by turning the "six Marys" into a kind of "rotating sex club". Moon's first wife divorced him after catching him in one of these sex rituals. Pak estimated that there were at least 60 "Marys," many of whom ended up destitute after Moon discarded them. When Moon impregnated one of the women, he sent her to Japan where she gave birth to a boy, Hee Jin Moon. Moon later admitted fathering the child, who died in a train crash at the age of 13. But Pak wrote that Moon refused to admit responsibility for other illegitimate children born to the women.

Through this teaching, he violated mothers, their daughters and their sisters, Pak claimed, but the sexual activity apparently did help in recruiting men to the church. By the early 1960s, the church was pulling in better educated young men, including some with connections to South Korea's intelligence agency, the KCIA.

Moon has been monitored by U.S. law-enforcement and intelligence agencies since the 1960s and '70s, considering him a potential national security threat to the United States. Reports by the [[CIA]], the [[FBI]] and the [[Defense Intelligence Agency]] demonstrated his close ties to [[South Korea|South Korea's]] brutal intelligence service, the KCIA, as well as to prominent right-wing industrialists linked to the [[Yakuza]], the [[Japan]]ese [[mafia]].<ref>ibid</ref>

==References==

<references/>

[[Category:Religious People]]

Sun Myung Moon

2008-04-30T13:42:59Z

StephenG:

Sun Myung Moon

2008-04-30T13:41:36Z

StephenG:

[[Image:Rev Moon.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Rev. Sun Myung Moon and Mrs. Hak Ja Han Moon]]
Rev. '''Sun Myung Moon''' (b.1920, [[Korea]]) is the head of the [[Unification Church]] (the "Moonies") and the founder of the [[Washington Times]]. He claims that at the age of 15, [[Jesus]] visited him and asked him to continue the work He had started 2000 years earlier.<ref>[http://www.unification.org/rev_mrs_moon.html Unification Church website] Official biography</ref> During a sermon, Rev. Moon asked any [[Judaism|Jews]] present to raise their hands. When they did, he told them to repent for killing Jesus and claimed that it was as an "indemnity" for this that 6 million Jews were murdered during the [[Holocaust]].<ref>[http://www.unification.net/news/2003/news20030302_1.html Unification Church website] Sermon given at Sheraton National Hotel, Arlington, March 2, 2003</ref> During a visit to the [[United States]], he engaged in a controversial ceremony in which a Congressman crowned him.

==Childhood==

{{quotebox|Where does Father come from? In his childhood, he lived deep in the [[North Korea]]n countryside, in a mountain valley, a place called [[Chung Ju]]. He was a small king; he went all over the valley catching every kind of animal. He really explored the area. There is no fish he didn't know. His radius was a ten-mile area, a big territory for a child. If he didn't know everything about the area-who was living there and what they were doing-he couldn't sleep. Every morning he would go out and explore some more. That is the kind of personality he has. When there was a bully who gave a hard time to the other children, even though Father was very small, he fought against him and protected the smaller children. - Rev. Sun Myung Moon, ''In Yun and Encounter'' [http://www.tparents.org/Moon-Talks/sunmyungmoon90/901104.htm]}}

==Adulthood==
In the immediate post-war period, Moon moved to southern Korea and joined a mystical sect called '''Israel Suo-won''', which preached the imminent arrival of a Korean [[messiah]] and engaged in a sexual ritual called "pikarume," in which the ministers purified women through sexual intercourse, the so-called "blessing of the womb."<ref>Robert Parry [http://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/moon4.html ''Dark Side of Rev. Moon: Truth, Legend & Lies''] Moon returned to communist-ruled North Korea, and began to spread this message there but was arrested by North Korean authorities on morals charges connected to his sexual rites with young women. In 1950, however, before he had faced trial, [[United Nations]] troops overran the prison where Moon was held and he and all the other inmates were freed.<ref>ibid</ref> He returned to South Korea, where his recruitment of young studentsfrom an all-girls Christian school led to him being arrested again in 1955 for conducting more sexual "purification" rites, according to several U.S. intelligence reports which are now public. Moon was freed three months later because none of the young women would testify for fear of public humiliation, according to an undated FBI summary, released under a Freedom of Information Act request.<ref>ibid</ref>

==The Tragedy of the Six Marys==
In ''The Tragedy of the Six Marys'' one of the earliest Moon disciples, Pak Chung Hwa, detailed the Unification Church teaching of Moon that Jesus was supposed to save mankind by having sex with six ''already-married'' women who would then have sex with other men who would pass on the purification to other women until, eventually, all mankind would have pure blood. Pak related that Moon took on this responsibility as the "second messiah" but abused the practice by turning the "six Marys" into a kind of "rotating sex club". Moon's first wife divorced him after catching him in one of these sex rituals. Pak estimated that there were at least 60 "Marys," many of whom ended up destitute after Moon discarded them. When Moon impregnated one of the women, he sent her to Japan where she gave birth to a boy, Hee Jin Moon. Moon later admitted fathering the child, who died in a train crash at the age of 13. But Pak wrote that Moon refused to admit responsibility for other illegitimate children born to the women.

Through this teaching, he violated mothers, their daughters and their sisters, Pak claimed, but the sexual activity apparently did help in recruiting men to the church. By the early 1960s, the church was pulling in better educated young men, including some with connections to South Korea's intelligence agency, the KCIA.

Moon has been monitored by U.S. law-enforcement and intelligence agencies since the 1960s and '70s, considering him a potential national security threat to the United States. Reports by the [[CIA]], the [[FBI]] and the [[Defense Intelligence Agency]] demonstrated his close ties to [[South Korea|South Korea's]] brutal intelligence service, the KCIA, as well as to prominent right-wing industrialists linked to the [[Yakuza]], the [[Japan]]ese [[mafia]].<ref>ibid</ref>

==References==

<references/>

[[Category:Religious People]]

Unificationism

2008-04-30T13:16:51Z

StephenG: