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November 21, 2006 at 08:46:19

For Fundamentalists and the Hard Right, It's 'Spiritual Restoration' Month

by Paul Foote Page 1 of 3 page(s)

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November 2006 has become the month of restoration.

Ted Haggard, following accusations of his relationship with a male prostitute, resigned as president of the National Association of Evangelicals and as senior pastor of the New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Haggard will spend many years taking the four steps of spiritual restoration: submitting, admitting, restitution, and being humbled. His spiritual advisors will heed the biblical warning of the apostle Paul's Epistle to the Galatians to attempt not to be tempted while restoring (rather than shunning) a sinner.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/11/10/haggard.restoration/index.html?eref=rss_latest

The David Horowitz Freedom Center posted an announcement and a registration form for David Horowitz's Restoration Weekend 2006, November 16 – 19, at The Breakers Resort in Palm Beach, Florida. Some of the listed speakers were Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, David Horowitz, and Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo. Tancredo has been one of the strongest supporters of the Iranian Communist MEK (Rajavi Cult or Pol Pot of Iran). http://www.horowitzfreedomcenter.org/

Today's FrontPage Magazine did not include Tancredo's speech or an explanation as to why David Horowitz would invite Tancredo to speak at Restoration Weekend. During 2005, FrontPage Magazine published articles of supporters of the Rajavi Cult. Following posted criticisms of FrontPage Magazine, the magazine posted, on January 13, 2006, Michael Rubin's "Monsters of the Left: The Mujahedin al-Khalq".

http://www.frontpagemag.com/articles/readarticle.asp?ID=20780&p=1

Does Trancredo's invitation to speak at David Horowitz's Restoration Weekend mean that David Horowitz has restored Tancredo and the Iranian Communist MEK (Rajavi Cult or Pol Pot of Iran)?

David Horowitz did not provide the answer in his speech "Restoration Weekend 2006: Storming the Universities", posted November 20, 2006.

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=25586

Instead, David Horowitz provided examples of some radical professors who offer indoctrination rather than critical thinking about their fields. His first example was Professor Dana Cloud, Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Professor Cloud provides this description at her Web site:

"Dana L. Cloud (PhD, University of Iowa, 1992) specializes in the analysis of contemporary and popular and political culture from feminist, Marxist, and critical anti-racist perspectives. She teaches undergraduate classes in persuasion, social movements, speechwriting, and rhetorical criticism, as well as graduate courses in rhetoric and the public sphere, rhetoric and ideology, rhetoric and feminist theory, and rhetoric and popular culture. Dr. Cloud's areas of current research include the critique of therapeutic discourse, feminist and Marxist theories and politics, rhetoric of "family values," and the rhetoric of the U.S. labor movement."

http://www.utexas.edu/coc/cms/faculty/cloud.html

David Horowitz failed to mention in his speech that his FrontPage Magazine is a promoter of the writings of Professor Donna Hughes, Women's Studies Program, at the University of Rhode Island.
http://www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/

A search for "Donna Hughes" at FrontPage Magazine today will return 43 hits, one of which is "Sex Slave Jihad".

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=11791

Is this high quality, academic research? Does this professor provide critical evaluations of both sides of each issue?

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Professor, California State University, Fullerton

After marriage to an Iranian lady in Tehran, Iran in 1968, I returned to Tehran in the summer of 1970 to work at the American Embassy. After earning an MBA from Harvard Business School, I remained at Harvard University for another year to study the Persian (Farsi) language. In the early 1970's, Singer Sewing Machine Company sent me on assignments in the Middle East and North Africa, including assignments in Tehran, Iran.

From 1994 to 1996, I was a professor at Sultan Qaboos University in the Sultanate of Oman. This gave me an opportunity to present papers at academic conferences in the United Arab Emirates and in Turkey. Also, I was able to speak to audiences in Iran and to teach English in Iran during vacations to the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1995 and 1996.

My wife makes frequent trips to the Islamic Republic of Iran. In our home in California, we have an international satellite dish providing access to television stations from a large number of countries in the world, including approximately 20 Persian (Farsi) language stations.