Where in Washington, D.C. is Reverend Moon?: Troubling "peacemaker"

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10/25/2005

Troubling "peacemaker"

I'm reposting this from last year, re-edited a bit, because I've still found no explanation for this.

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At the Dirksen Senate Offfice Building, Mar. 23, 2004, a number of Congressmen attended as Washington Times owner Sun Myung Moon was honored as the "King Of Peace," decked out in a crown and robes of royal splendor. His organization awarded its "Ambassador For Peace" awards to Congressmen and constituents.

According to the Orange County Weekly, Moon's "Ambassadors for Peace" have also included a neo-Nazi named William Baker, in 2001. Baker, who's been written up in Moon's "Unification News" as "a man of God who has answered God’s call" has been protested by Jews in Boca Raton.

But in 1984, he was chairman of the Populist Party, a neo-Nazi organization that was established by Willis Carto, a political racist who denied the Jewish Holocaust ever took place -- and "perhaps the most influential professional anti-Semite in the United States," according to the ADL.

Baker claims that he never supported the views of Carto. Yet at his 1984 convention for the Populist Party, Baker endorsed the restoration of segregation laws.

Segregation laws.

While Moon preaches "reconciliation," Baker's vision of peace between Christians and Muslims is that they'd bond over their animosities towards Jews. He's written a book, "Theft of a Nation," calling for Israel to be "dismantled and eventually eliminated." "True justice and real conciliation," he wrote, requires that "all Jews who entered Palestine during the British Mandate from 1917 to 1948 and after the establishment of the state of Israel should return to the various countries of their origin."

The Orange County Weekly has made it pretty hot for Baker in a series of articles calling "Dr." Baker a huckster and a fraud (who only pretends to have a Ph.D).

Neo-Nazis tend to have a unique perspective on "world peace." Why has the Moon movement, which professes to be the world's leading force for interracial harmony, embraced one? And why do they tolerate racism at the Washington Times?

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-- Tony Norman, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette columnist

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-- New York Times editorial on the Crown of Peace scandal

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-- Moon spokesman the Rev. Phil Schanker

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-- Rep. Jim Leach (R-IA)