http://www.danielpipes.org/article/4747
It is almost comical that a man such as Daniel Pipes, who epitomises the word "neo-con" in all of its pejorative connotations, cannot stop gushing for the Mujahedeen-e Khalq (MEK). Pipes, the bonafide right-wing-think-tanker and buddy of conservo-crank David Horowitz (FrontPageMag.com), offers nothing but praise for the MEK, a cultic organization that is a bizarre hybrid of Islamist and Marxist ideologies. Now the last time I checked these two particular 'isms' weren't very popular with right-thinking, all-Americans like Danny Pipes. Yet he wants to inform us that since the MEK's Maryam Rajavi spoke to a crowd of 20,000 Iranian emigres who were otherwise engrossed in getting there dance on at some Persian rave in Paris recently, this is the organization deserving American support as a viable opposition group to the present regime sitting in Tehran.
Pipes writes flippantly about the MEK being categorized as a terrorist organization (calling the MEK's place on the terror list a "sop to the [Iranian] mullahs"). He also was obviously quite turned-on by the "pretty girls in (for them, daring) Western clothing." It seems that for some like Danny here, as long as any Iranian/Arab/Muslim/Pakistani groups (to guys like Pipes they are all the same really) have hot girls showing lushly thick dark hair and their curvy bodies then those are the good guys. Pipes also made it a point to remind us that "Rajavi's in-depth analysis mentioned neither the United States nor Israel." But isn't that the way you're supposed to treat silent partners, Mr. Pipes?
Seriously, however, the Mujahedeen-e Khalq is a terrorist organization. The red dye of its banner has the blood of innocent Iranians in it. During the 1980-1988 Iran-Iran War, the MEK were allies of Saddam Hussein, aiding him in his attempts to carve chunks out of their own Iranian homeland. No true Iranian patriot can have the slightest respect for the MEK.
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Caesar Warrington
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