MKO and 9/11

Mojahedin.ws

On the anniversary of 11 September terrorist incident, all MKO-run

media have purposefully remained silent; that makes it essential to
focus on its position on the incident. It is an issue of concern that while
the world unanimously condemned the terrorist acts at the time and
voted on a universal move to stop any further terrorist plots and still
commemorates the victims, Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) has
preferred to keep silent. The testimonies of the ex-members who were
still in Camp Ashraf when the incident happened well reveal the
strategic and ideological positions of the organization. A number of
these ex-members have stated that after the incident, Massoud
Rajavi’s manner of behavior had arisen in them a suspicion that the
organization might have masterminded the incident. So passionate had
Rajavi talked about the inhuman incident that the members had come
to believe that Al-Qaeda operation team might have received their
training at Camp Ashraf. In a part of his speech Rajavi was quoted to
have stated:

What happened reveals only a percentage of the potentialities of an

Islamic organization which has adopted the most reactionary
concepts of Islam. Imagine how potential and capable our
revolutionary Islam might be!

These ex-members have further stated that Rajavi had ordered to show
the videotaped explosion of the Twine Towers again and again. They
say that Maryam Rajavi once referred to Muhammad Ata’s will, one of
the agents of the 9/11 incident, wherein he had banned women’s
attendance at his tomb and stated his aversion to family and children,
and said that Al-Qaeda and the perpetrators of the 9/11 incident have
a far better understanding of MKO’s ideological revolution than those
inside the Camp Ashraf.

The Mojahedin leadership is also quoted to have said; “We did the
ideological revolution but Al-Qaeda is actually practicing it”.

Regardless of all these stated remarks, MKO’s silence and indifferent

position is an indirect approbation of the terrorist act of Al-Qaeda. The
fact is that an act the same as the 9/11 incident was long a deep
yearning for Mojahedin. It is natural for an organization that dreamed
to create another Vietnam in Iran not to hide its feeling over a
Vietnamized America in spite of appealing to imperialism to muster
protection. The incident was an actual test of the organization to
determine its degree of sincerity towards the US it attempted to utilize
to achieve its political objectives. While in a world wide propaganda
MKO maneuvers on beguiling mottos of “peace”, “democracy”, and
“human rights”, inside the organization it refers to these mottos as
tactics to assume political power. This innate hypocrisy has even made
some supporting powers to be skeptical of the group.

Years before the 9/11 incident, in a US State Department report

submitted to the Congress in 1994 on "people's Mojahedin of Iran",
Mojahedin’s duality, untruth, and reversal was not a fact for the US to
be unaware:

Current Mojahedin publications assert the group's advocacy of

specific guidelines for a future provisional government, including:
"democracy," "peace," "love, friendship, and unity," "separation of
church and state," and "recognition of private ownership and a
market economy," A recent addition has been the Mojahedin claim
to support the Middle East peace process. The group also stresses
its commitment to the rights of women and has drafted a "NCR
plan on Women's Rights."

These claims present a revolutionary departure from the

substantial written record of Mojahedin ideology. Examples of such
reversals include the switch from revolutionary Islam to separation
of church and state and from nationalization to private ownership.
Yet the changes in MKO ideology occurred without any public
debate, and there is no public record of discussion or review of
Mojahedin principles. It is also unclear when each change in policy
occurred, and what internal factors motivated each shift. The
absence of dialogue about this critical issue of ideology contrasts
markedly with the group's earlier history of discourse.
 Nor are these new claims substantiated by the record of the
Mojahedin's activities throughout the last 29 years.

The report then continues:

The Mojahedin's credibility is also undermined by the fact that they

deny or distort sections of their history, such as the use of violence
or opposition to Zionism. It is difficult to accept at face value
promises of future conduct when an organization fails to
acknowledge its past.

In contrast to its claims of having accepted democratic parameters of

the West, MKO’s indifferent position on 9/11 incident indicates its
innate duality. So grave was the effect of this terrorist act on global
community that it was turned into a criterion to identify other instances
of terrorist acts and apparent as well as unapparent instances of
advocating terrorism. For the Mojahedin who in the past shed the blood
of American citizens and blasted its offices in Iran, the destruction of
the Twine Towers was a relief for a long bearing grudge against the
imperialism. At the same time when many innocent American citizens
were being crushed under the debris of the towers collapse, Mojahedin
Khalq, safe in their Camp Ashraf haven, were celebrating the incident
as a fulfilled dream of seeing the doomsday of the capitalism camp.
Possibly, looking at the towers’ collapse, Rajaviv was thinking of the
late Mao when he said “the US is paper tiger”.

No doubt, notwithstanding its attempts to distort its past and to justify

its present struggle manner, MKO is a terrorist group which believes
Marxist and Machiavelli ethics are the best lead out of any problem. Al-
Qaeda, unlike MKO, refuses to camouflage its strategy and ideology to
meet its terrorist objectives. MKO, in contrast, because of its eclectic
ideology and easily consenting to adopt destructive tenets, has the
capacity of theoretical and political reconciliation under any condition.
Mojahedin’s dual nature has notoriously labelled them as “the
terrorists in shadow”.