Ban Ki-moon: Is he or isn't he a Moonie?

[donsu]

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_1320.shtml


WMR was the first to report on UN Secretary General-designate Ban Ki-moon's possible connections to the Unification Church of Sun Myung Moon, an enigmatic South Korean power broker and billionaire whose funding originally came from the Korean Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA).

Based on Ban's Friday press conference, his answers about his views of religion appear quite "Moonie-like." For example, Ban would not even answer a pointed question from the Financial Times whether or not he believed in God. Ban, who states in his biography that he is a member of a "non-denominational Korean Christian" sect, had an answer one might expect from a Moonie.

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Unification Church adherents believe Sun Myung Moon is their "god," and Sun Myung Moon has been working over the years to infiltrate the UN and he has already been successful in receiving UN non-governmental organization (NGO) recognition and consultative status for his front organizations: the Women's Federation for World Peace (Economic and Social Council - ECOSOC - recognition), the Family Federation for World Peace, and World Association of Non-Governmental Organizations (WANGO). In 2001, Moon held a mass wedding in a UN conference room and he is on record as stating that "our movement and the UN are completely connected."

Sun Myung Moon has close connections to the right wing of the Republican Party, Jerry Falwell, and the Bush family. He has also infiltrated a number of UN missions, including those of Indonesia, Gambia, Bangladesh, Mongolia, Uzbekistan, Comoros, Iran, Mozambique, Tajikistan, the Arab League, and the Organization of Islamic Conference. Although Sun Myung Moon has established many footholds inside the UN, the election of Ban Ki-moon as Secretary General may be his greatest prize.
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UN wake up, you've been coup d'etated.

[Jack Rabbit]

1. You may be jumping to conclusions

You could be right, but there isn't enough here to conclude that Ban is a Moonie.

A non-demonominational church could mean many things. In the US, it is usually a Protestant church offering services that are broadly Protestant, but not specifically Methodist, Baptist or Presbyterian. Korea is a primarily a Buddhist country, where non-denominational could mean not specifically any of the world's religions at all.

I don't know enough about Ban to make a judgment. Hopefully, he will not be a neoconservative tool to destroy the UN.