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»	Rael urges ‘wonderful population decrease’ foreseen by Japanese report A recent study published by the Japanese Ministry of Health predicts a decrease of the Japanese popu ...
»	Rael urges closing of U.S. bases in Okinawa Rael, spiritual leader of the Raelian Movement, and thousands of Japanese Raelians have expressed th ...
»	Clitoraid at AVN This year on January 20th and 21st Clitoraid deployed an exhibit at the 2012 Adult Expo Fan Fest in ...
»	Raelians in support of CELAC Lima, December 2011 – The International Raelian Movement applauded the initiative of Mexico in the c ...
»	Rael Honors South African President Jacob Zuma The title of Honorary Guide of Humanity awarded to Zuma.Following president Zuma's controversial com ...

Date published: Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:28:23 -0600

Rael urges closing of U.S. bases in Okinawa

TOKYO, Feb 2 – Rael, spiritual leader of the Raelian Movement, and thousands of Japanese Raelians have expressed their support to the Japanese delegation in Washington, D.C., in its opposition to the presence of and new construction of U.S. military bases in Okinawa.

Thirty-four American bases have occupied much of Okinawa’s land for the past 67 years. And year after year, a majority of Okinawa’s people have opposed the forced occupation of their territory by the United States by organizing regular peaceful sit-ins and protests.

Rael, who has been invited by the Raelians of Okinawa to attend their latest meditation gathering, says all U.S. bases in Okinawa and elsewhere in Japan should be closed.

In a recent speech, Rael also explained that Asian peoples have never been colonizers.

“Asians are mainly peaceful, but America is the worst colonialist nation in the world,” Rael declared. “Americans say they fight for freedom and use that strategy to have 180 military bases worldwide, while China has only 2. The American military budget is 1,000 times larger than that of the Chinese. Who should we be afraid of?”

For Rael, the fear pretext used by America to justify its many bases and the building of more and more weapons is not only irrational but criminal. He says the 70 military bases in Japan are completely unjustifiable.

“Moreover, since no independent organization has ever verified U.S. claims that there are no nuclear weapons stored in Japan, the International Atomic Energy Agency should at least conduct an inspection to make sure there are none,” he said.

Thursday 02 February 2012

Rael urges ‘wonderful population decrease’ foreseen by Japanese report

TOKYO, Feb 2 – A recent study published by the Japanese Ministry of Health predicts a decrease of the Japanese population by about 30 percent within the next 50 years.

But despite heavy population density in Japanese cities and a scarcity of natural resources – especially in the aftermath of last year’s catastrophic tsunami – commentary in the Japanese media about the report was mostly negative.

In contrast, Rael, spiritual leader of the Raelian Movement, applauds the report. He is also highly critical of those working to overturn its prediction.

“Media outlets and politicians should talk instead about the ‘wonderful population decrease,’” Rael said in a statement released this morning. “All those who try to stop the population decrease in any way, including those in the media commenting negatively about it, should one day be prosecuted for crimes against humanity – for being accomplices in the terrible overpopulation that is coming.”

Rael has repeatedly condemned politicians and religious leaders for selfishly encouraging people to have more babies. He has also requested that all religious books asking people to “multiply” be declared illegal.

“It is my hope that more and more young people will refuse to have children in order to save humanity,” Rael said in his statement. “Not one of these irresponsible and criminal media outlets even mentioned the possibility of replacing the younger generations – which may be required for a while to do some jobs – by opening immigration widely and welcoming people of younger generations from underdeveloped countries. This is racism and nationalism at its worst.”

“We are one planet and one humanity,” Rael concluded. “It’s time to stop promoting the making of additional babies and let people from the poor countries populate the rich countries. And it’s time to urge people around the entire planet to use contraception.”

Thursday 02 February 2012

Iran’s Raelian leader applauds Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani, commends her courage in appearing nude on film

LAS VEGAS, Jan. 25 – “I wish to express my full support and admiration to Iranian artist and activist Golshifteh Farahani, for her courage in appearing nude publicly,” said Negar Azizmoradi, national leader of the Iranian Raelian Movement, in a statement released today by the International Raelian Movement.

A nude photo of Farahani published by “Le Figaro Madame,” a French magazine, attracted a wave of visitors from Iran and the Middle East to Farahani's Facebook page, according to media reports.

Azizmoradi and Farahani have much in common, for both stood up against Iranian oppression and left Iran.

Azizmoradi, a personal friend of Farahani, was admitted to the United States as a refugee in December 2011 after fleeing Iranian oppression two years ago. Farahani, now based in Paris, left Iran a year ago to protest its restrictive Islamic codes, including those imposed on the Iranian cinema industry by Ahmadinejad's ultraconservative cultural policies.

“As a well-known and successful actress, it was already quite courageous for Golshifteh to take the risk of acting against policies of the Iranian regime by appearing in a Hollywood movie project in 2008,” Azizmoradi said, explaining that the role generated many problems for the actress and eventually led to her inevitable departure from Iran. “She left behind all the advantages and possibilities of a well-known Iranian actress to live in a foreign country, far from the people who admire her and her art,” Azizmoradi added. “And this latest revolutionary stand – having her nude picture published in a famous magazine and appearing in a video that illustrates the beauty of nudity from an artistic viewpoint – was again very brave, considering the strict religious and traditional taboos of Iranian society.”

Azizmoradi said Farahani undoubtedly faces bitter comments from a majority of the Iranian people.

“They have primitive thoughts of shame regarding nudity, and more importantly, of discrimination toward women,” she explained. “Iranian society is sick, and we need to help it heal by eliminating all of its superstitions and all of its deeply rooted religious and traditional taboos.”

Raelian philosophy states that all of Earth’s living forms, including human beings, were created by advanced scientists from another planet. Accordingly, hiding the human body is like hiding a masterpiece of their creation, while nudity is beautiful.

Rael, spiritual leader of the Raelian Movement, has declared his support for Australian artist Bill Henson, who recently presented an exhibition on nudity. And according to Rael, the unadorned human body is the most beautiful art show of all.

“Those against it are mentally disturbed and sexually obsessed by their religious education,” he admonished.

Rael also initiated the Raelian Movement’s well-known Go-Topless action in 2007 to help women reclaim their constitutional right to go bare-chested in public, as men do.

“We need more women like Golshifteh in the Middle East,” Azizmoradi said. “In my opinion, by appearing nude in this video, she acted the best role of her life by stimulating the consciousness her nation's people. She has all my love and support as an Iranian woman, as her fan and as her friend.”

Wednesday 25 January 2012

Rael honors South African President Jacob Zuma, confers ‘Honorary Guide of Humanity’ title

TOKYO, Dec 24 – In recognition of South African President Jacob Zuma’s controversial comments about Christianity’s detrimental effect upon Africa, Rael, leader of the International Raelian Movement today awarded Zuma the title “Honorary Guide of Humanity.”

Zuma recently criticized Christianity in very strong terms, saying it is responsible for creating African orphans. And sources say that, in contrast to religious people who refer to the pre-Christian era of Africa as “the time of dark days,” Zuma maintains that no orphans or old-age homes even existed in Africa until Christianity arrived there.

Zuma’s comments echo Rael’s repeated calls for Africans to eliminate the presence of ex-colonizers and Christianity across the continent and to restore the pre-colonial borders and ancestral religions of Africa.

“By adopting the religion of the colonizers, they betrayed their ancestors,” Rael commented in a recent interview.

In a similar vein, Zuma has said, “South Africans should return to the old ways of doing things.”

Rael went even further in 2008, when he launched a wide apostasy campaign on the African continent with these words:

“The need for spiritual decolonization is really urgent, so the people of Kama [the ancient, pre-colonial name for Africa that was used by its indigenous inhabitants] must apostatize from Christianity, a religion that insults the memory of their ancestors. Those ancestors can’t rest in peace because they’re watching their descendants practice the religion of the colonizers, who forcibly conquered them through bloodshed and made them convert to Christianity the same way.”

According to Rael, traditional African religions are part of the cultural inheritance of Africans and should again be taught in the schools and made known to the public.

“The spiritual decolonization of Kama is an indispensable condition for the future development of this continent,” Rael explained. “Mao Tse Tung understood this principle; he launched the Cultural Revolution that was needed to take China to the superpower status it now enjoys.”

To learn more about Rael's vision for Kama, visit www.raelafrica.org.

Saturday 24 December 2011

Rael: ‘Stop giving Christmas gifts!’ - Spiritual leader reinforces Raelian Movement’s 'There-Is-No-Santa' campaign

LAS VEGAS, Dec. 21 – The Raelian Movement’s ‘There is No Santa’ campaign was reinforced today for this hectic Christmas shopping week when Rael, the Movement’s spiritual leader, issued a statement asking the public to “stop spending money for a tradition that is pure invention and promoted by multinational companies to make more profits.”

“Stop lying to your children about a Santa Claus that doesn’t exist,” Rael said, “and stop wasting money to respect a tradition that is based on a lie. Don’t give any Christmas gifts! You have plenty of occasions to give gifts to people you love without doing it during this collective mass celebration of crazy consumerism that is promoted by governments, religion and industries but has absolutely no spiritual content.”

Rael asked Raelian parents to teach their children about peace and love instead of giving them Christmas presents, and to give them gifts at another date if they wish.

“I recommend giving these gifts one month before Christmas, so that Raelian children receive their gifts before all others, which will make all other children jealous,” Rael explained. “And they should also inform their friends that there is no Santa Claus and push them to put pressure on their parents not to continue this stupid tradition.”

“People should do all they can to bring these annual festivities back to their origins by adopting the pre-Christian, fun-loving mindset and, most importantly, removing all mysticism, whether it’s related to the birth of a god in a barn or to the mysterious

Santa Claus or Father Christmas,” Rael said when he launched the 'There is no Santa' campaign in 2008.

In today’s statement, he added that a spiritual celebration in memory of Jesus or of Rael's conception day on Dec. 25 is a good thing, but that the commercial orgy we are witnessing this week is not.

Wednesday 21 December 2011

Rael names Bradley Manning “Honorary Guide,” citing his courage in leaking documents

LAS VEGAS, Dec. 21 - Rael, founder and leader of the International Raelian Movement (www.rael.org), has bestowed the rare title “Honorary Guide for Humanity” upon Bradley Manning.

Manning, 24, was arrested for leaking sensitive government documents to Wikileaks while serving as an American soldier in Iraq in 2010. He is currently facing a court martial and possible death sentence for, among other charges, aiding the enemy.

According to a statement released today by the IRM, Rael conferred the Honorary Guide of Humanity title upon Manning “for his courage in revealing to humanity the dirty secrets of governments” and said he hopes that Manning's example “will push all military personnel in the world to do the same thing, so that no government or military leader can illegally kill, torture or do anything else that violates human rights.”

In 2010, Rael similarly conferred the Honorary Guide title upon Julian Assange for his efforts in publishing these and many other classified documents.

“The title of Honorary Guide of Humanity is bestowed only upon those people whom, without concern for their own well being, do all they can to help humanity,” said U.S. Raelian spokesperson Ricky Roehr. “We fully stand by Bradley Manning, Julian Assange and anyone else who exposes lying governments – and they all lie. Bradley Manning may pay the highest price for his loyalty to humanity because the government may kill him.”

Roehr said Raelian philosophy is clearly against all violence.

“It says that all military forces should be banned because they are currently in place only for the duplicitous ends of politicians who themselves are controlled by whoever has the most money,” Roehr explained. “And Raelian philosophy also says we should refuse to obey any order, no matter from whom, that would inflict pain or death on another person.”

Those who join military forces voluntarily are misguided, according to Roehr.

"Hundreds of thousands of soldiers from all over the world join their nation's military organizations because they believe they’re serving a higher cause,” he said. “They believe their country is good and just. But what Manning did transcends to a much higher cause, that of humanity. Every year, we read belated leaked documents revealing yesterday's truths – for example, about the U.S. government experimenting on innocent people and giving them syphilis, LSD or other terrible things. Manning's info is news about wrongs our government is actually committing today. This information has to be made known in the hope of having those wrongs corrected. So we are grateful to Honorary Guide Manning for his courage in revealing the truth!”

Tuesday 20 December 2011

Iranian Raelian leader granted asylum in U.S. after renouncing Islam

LAS VEGAS, Dec. 6 – Negar Azizmoradi, leader of the Iranian branch of the International Raelian Movement (IRM), has been granted religious asylum in the United States after a long struggle that began when she publicly declared atheist/Raelian beliefs in her home country.

“As the leader of the Iranian Raelian Movement and hence an atheist and as a political activist, Negar couldn't possibly stay in her country" said Brigitte Boisselier, spokesperson for the IRM, in a statement released this morning. “She was forced to flee Iran when her family received word that she was about to be arrested and thrown into prison.”

The prospect of serving an indefinite sentence in an Iranian prison amounted to a likely death sentence, Boisselier said.

“She fled arrest and made it across the Turkish border just in time, but was later arrested by Turkish authorities when she couldn’t produce proper papers,” Boisselier explained.

“She was then thrown into a Turkish jail, where she suffered dreadful conditions that were life-threatening due to her lung ailment. What’s more, Turkey was going to send her back to Iran to face certain death.”

Just when things seemed hopeless for Negar, IRM members worldwide rallied to her assistance.

“We protested in force at Turkish embassies to great effect, and the media, including the BBC and Istanbul’s main daily newspaper, also put tremendous pressure on the Turkish government to do the right thing,” Boisselier explained. “The Turkish authorities gave in, so Negar’s story has a happy ending. After two years of paperwork and offers by Raelians in many countries to host this brave young woman in her quest for asylum, she will finally arrive in Las Vegas at 3 p.m. today. For the first time, she will be able to state her beliefs openly and live her Raelian views in freedom and harmony. We eagerly await her arrival!”

Boisselier added that Las Vegas Raelians wish to thank Senator Reid and his staff for their assistance in hastening Negar's asylum application process.

Tuesday 06 December 2011

Rael asks Nobel committee to retract Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize

LAS VEGAS, Dec. 1 – After the request by the U.S. government to lift the United Nations ban on cluster bombs, Rael, spiritual leader of the Raelian Movement, has asked the Nobel Committee to retract President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize.

“This request to lift the ban on cluster bombs is another crime committed by a nation whose president is a Nobel Peace Prize winner,” Rael declared in a statement released today. “Will the Nobel Prize committee finally have the courage to strip him of this award?”

In March, Rael had this to say about the American president’s award:

“Shouldn’t a Peace Prize recipient like Obama have the honesty to return that prize after leading this attack on Libya that killed civilians he claimed to protect?” he asked.

Raelians say the situation has worsened since then, and they applaud the recent U.N. decision to retain the cluster bombs ban after the United States requested that it be lifted.

“It’s a relief to see that the United Nations didn’t buy into the pseudo-humanitarian reasons given by the United States to justify lifting the ban,” said Brigitte Boisselier, spokesperson for the Raelian Movement. “A bomb made to kill civilians is simply not acceptable, and to have it promoted by a Nobel Peace Prize recipient is just as unacceptable. All other Nobel Peace Prize laureates should feel offended to hold a prize that has been given to someone who, in just three years of command, has managed to bomb three countries: Pakistan, Yemen and Libya, plus keep two other inherited wars going.”

Friday 02 December 2011

Rael: ‘Will research about the speed of light be forbidden soon?’

LAS VEGAS, Nov. 27 – After an international scientific team studying neutrino particles in Italy found the CERN results about neutrinos traveling faster the speed of light to be incorrect, Rael, spiritual leader of the Raelian Movement, pronounced their conclusion to be greatly biased in favor of prevailing theory.

“I wouldn’t be surprised if any research trying to prove that particles can go faster than light is forbidden soon so Einstein’s dogma can be preserved,” Rael said.

A week ago, scientists at the world’s biggest physics lab in Geneva, Switzerland, announced that they have successfully repeated their previous measurements showing that some particles travel faster than light. Their first experiment, reported in September, showed that subatomic neutrino particles had broken the supposed ultimate speed barrier established by Einstein in 1905. According to Einstein’s theory of relativity, nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, currently believed to be 186,282 miles (or 299,792 kilometers) per second. But the neutrino particles had traveled 60 nanoseconds faster, thus contradicting Einstein’s theory.

But for Raelians, the experiment results did not contradict reality.

The Raelian philosophy, established in 1973 after Rael’s encounter with the scientists who created us, states that nothing, including the speed of light, is constant in the universe. Therefore, according to the Raelians, the speed of light can be slower or faster than the constant value of Einstein’s theory.

Rael has previously commented on this subject. On the day of the CERN announcement that some neutrinos had been measured at superluminal speed, he said he wondered whether or not the physics community would accept those results and finally be willing to review the theory of relativity.

“After all, it’s only a theory, but the physics community obviously isn’t ready to change this Einsteinian dogma that lies at the heart of all current cosmic science,” commented Dr. Brigitte Boisselier, spokesperson of the Raelian Movement. “Hopefully, they won’t forbid the experiments already planned to reproduce the CERN results, which is what they did when they forbade human cloning experiments.”

She added that human cloning was another scientific advance predicted by Rael back in 1973.

Meanwhile, Boisselier said, other groups are confirming Rael’s predictions by showing that nothing is constant in the universe.

For example, she said, research carried out at the University of New South Wales, the Swinburne University of Technology and the University of Cambridge found that electromagnetism, one of the four known fundamental forces and denoted by the alpha symbol, varies across the universe. The researchers looked at light from distant quasars to see how it was absorbed by metallic atoms on its billion-year journey to us.

“They found that the measurements were different from similar ones on Earth and changed gradually depending on the directions, Boisselier explained. “That means their measurements are in direct contradiction with the constancy that is so cherished by physicists. And the findings are also in full agreement with the fact that the universe is infinite, which is what the Raelian philosophy states and promotes as an essential shift in our paradigm. It will revolutionize our understanding of life in the universe as well.”

She added, “It is our hope that in the near future, less time will be spent trying to prove these measurements wrong, and that more time will be spent grasping all the implications of the ‘inconstancy.’ Once the concept of infinity in the universe is accepted as a principle, everything will go so much faster. Hopefully, that will include the return of the scientists who created us, a hope that is dear to the Raelians.”

Saturday 26 November 2011

Raelians say United Kingdom covered up evidence of Vatican pedophilia - Raelian Movement files Freedom of Information Request with U.K. Cabinet

LONDON, Nov. 15 – On Sept. 13, 2010, the European Raelian Movement filed a lawsuit against Pope Benedict XVI in The High Court (

RCJ Queen's Bench Division, Case Number : HQ10D03453) just days before his United Kingdom visit arranged by the U.K. Cabinet. The lawsuit alleged that Benedict and the Vatican, due to their stance on condom use, are responsible for millions of deaths, for the orphaning of children, and for the needless HIV infection of additional millions. The lawsuit also alleged that Benedict (then Cardinal Ratzinger) ordered ongoing retaliation against the Raelian Movement because it denounced the Vatican for promoting and covering up pedophilia, and that the retaliation included the persecution of Raelians in both the United Kingdom and worldwide.

“While the lawsuit was accepted by the High Court, Master Foster stayed service of papers to the Pope during the Pope’s visit to the United Kingdom, and he later refused to lift the stay on service without a hearing and without comment,” said Brigitte Boisselier, spokesperson for the Raelian Movement. “That denial of service effectively blocked the summons from being carried out.”

Boisellier said Raelians are determined to get to the bottom of the cover up and see that
the truth is made public.

“After waiting for over a year for the High Court to respond, it seems there is a conspiracy within the U.K. government to protect these criminals in the Vatican,” she said. “We filed the Freedom of Information request as an attempt to learn more about this matter, and if a response isn’t forthcoming in due course, we will go to the national courts and then to the European Court of Human Rights until we get the truth. The European Union may not look so favorably on the facts.”

Boisselier said Raelians have deduced that the U.K. court blocked service of papers to the Pope at the request of the U.K. cabinet to avoid embarrassment during the Pope’s visit.

“That makes the U.K. government complicit in acts of pedophilia and crimes against humanity,” Boisselier stated. She said Raelians are seeking all relevant records relating to the U.K. cabinet’s actions.

In addition, she noted that Raelians contest the Pope’s status as a head of state, which grants him immunity from prosecution in many countries.

“The prime minister or president of any country should not be immune from prosecution,” Boisselier said. “Therefore, it’s also absolutely unacceptable that the Pope or any Vatican official escape justice simply because it’s considered politically incorrect to prosecute a ‘man of God.’ Obviously, the Vatican harbors evil when it causes the spread of AIDS or protects pedophiles.”

Copy of the FOI request

Sunday 13 November 2011

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