Een goed stuk dat “Imam Tawhidi” ontmaskert als een fraudeur: Welcome to the thoroughly weird world of Mohammad Tawhidi, the man the mainstream Muslim community has dubbed Australia’s “fake sheikh.”
Vooral dit stukje, waar “Imam Tawhidi” zijn ziel verkoopt aan een Zuid-Koreaanse duivel c.q. sekteleider is veelzeggend over deze hypocriete nep-moslim:
An “alliance into one religion”?
Established in 1984, Lee Man Hee’s Shincheonji Church of Jesus the Temple of the Tabernacle bears a strong resemblance to the better known Unification Church, popularly known as the “Moonies.” For decades, both churches have been accused of brainwashing members and creating front organisations using deception to infiltrate other churches both in Korea and the West. The peace summit Tawhidi attended was hosted by Heavenly Culture, World Peace, Restoration of Light (HWRL) and a string of peace-themed groups, all of them controlled by Lee’s Shincheonji Church. Unbeknown to the overseas invitees, the event was known within Korea not as a peace conference, but the 6th Shincheonji National Olympiad, a four yearly mega-party to celebrate Lee’s birthday.
A Korean media blackout on Shincheonji activities meant that for many invitees, the realisation that they had been co-opted into a cult leader’s elaborate vanity project only dawned on them when they walked into the stadium. Martin Bergsma, the president of a Dutch youth NGO, said he found it difficult to extricate himself once the penny dropped; HWRL had paid 80% of his airfare and kept him under tight control when he got there, he said. Other participants shared Bergsma’s experience of being pressured to sign a document declaring their submission to a single merged religion, effectively a pledge of allegiance to Lee.
Speculating on the reason for the expensive and logistically complicated charade, Bergsma believes it generated “excellent propaganda material for the South Korean people, showing that Man Hee Lee has supporters from all over the world.” The Church certainly made mileage out of the handful of attendees who did sign up to Lee’s vision of a global religion – Tawhidi included. Shincheonji have quoted him as saying, “This WARP Summit is an event blessed by God because it is every religious person’s wish to achieve peace through an alliance into one religion.”
If Tawhidi was perturbed by his name being attached to a pledge to do away with Islam, it did not show. While other attendees took to the internet to warn about the bogus event, Tawhidi instead made his involvement the centre of his public persona. Proclaiming himself “the Imam of peace,” he plastered his social media accounts with images of himself posing with fellow attendees, often making the distinctive “L” shaped hand gesture associated with the cult. He also proudly showed off his “gold medal for world peace.” There is no mention of who bestowed this honour upon him, but the medallion bears a striking resemblance to a cheap Korean good luck trinket.
Imaan Booster 