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[above: click on image for YouTube video trailer]"Renewal or Ruin": New Video Documentary By Steve D. Martin Spotlights Secretive Rightwing Effort To Destroy Mainstream Protestant Churches
Eternal Hostility: The Struggle Between Theocracy and Democracy, by Frederick Clarkson
Right-Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort
by Chip Berlet and Matthew N. Lyons
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God's Profits: Faith, Fraud and the Republican Crusade For Values Voters
By Sarah Posner
Liars for Jesus: The Religious Right's Alternate Version of American History
By Chris Rodda
Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism
: by Michelle Goldberg
With God on Their Side: How Christian Fundamentalists Trampled Science, Policy, and Democracy in George W. Bush's White House.
by Esther Kaplan
Straight to Jesus: Sexual and Christian Conversions in the Ex-Gay Movement
Tanya Erzen
Attack on The United Churches of Christ
Attack on The United Methodist Church
"The Christian Right, Dominionism, and Theocracy", by Chip Berlet
"Taking Over The Republican Party", a four part series by Joan Bokaer
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The Indian River Incident : What You Can Do
link > The "Stop the ACLU Coalition" Shaming Project
How you can help stop "Stop The ACLU" just by sending a few emails
The Shaming Projectdoes the violence of "Left Behind: Eternal Forces" bother you ? If so, what can you do ? Well, to begin with you can email Jonathan Hutson's stories to people you know. That will help to bring more public scrutiny of the game. Public shaming really works ! Just click on the "email" icon and link at the top or bottom of the story and you'll be taken to a form that will allow you email the first story, The Purpose Driven Life Takers or the latest installment without leaving this site. Thanks.
Walid Shoebat: The Philadelphia Story |
| Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 06:33:19 AM EST |  print story | |
 
...the media wants you to focus more on our finances by claiming that we are not a charitable organization. In fact F.F.M.U (Foundation For Middle East Understanding) was set up as a 501C3 to receive donations, yet the media opts to include only the business aspect of our firm (Top Executive Media) that deals with our book sales and speaking fees. It is not a crime to collect pay for speaking fees and book sales. Voluntary activism in our opinion is less effective.The FFMU - actually the "Forum for Middle East Understanding" - is a low-profile outfit based in Philadelphia, and it is linked to a couple of other organisations. One of these has some well-known right-wing activists on board, including Jack Wheeler and Foster Friess. |
| topic: Neoconservatives |
Some of Silver's thoughts on the Arab-Israeli conflict (and, strangely, his own agreement with those thoughts) can be seen here, and he also sits on the board of the Philadelphia-based "Interfaith Taskforce for America and Israel" (ITAI). This organisation does not appear to have a website, and it holds events with thuddingly predictable titles such as "The Jihadist Islamic Threat to the Judeo-Christian Way of Life" (Shoebat was involved with that one; this notice - which spells him as "Shubat" - claims he is a "professor"!). The director of ITAI is a certain Joseph Puder, and a conservative Episcopal priest named Peter T. Manzo is also involved. Whether they share Shoebat's view that the Book of Revelation refers to Islam is not known.
Puder and Silver are also on the board of the America-Kurdistan Friendship League (AKLF), alongside Foster Friess and Jack Wheeler. Back in the 1980s Wheeler (among much else) helped Jack Abramoff organise a conference in Angola for Nicaraguan Contras, Afghanistan Mujahideen and South African Security police (see my blog entries here and here for further details). Friess, meanwhile, is a billionaire businessman, and last year WND reported that he was being considered by the Christian Right as a possible independent candidate for the presidential election.
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