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Glendale-Based Pastor Gives Christian Cover to Aliyev’s Religious Intolerance

by Asbarez Staff
April 30, 2020
in Armenia, Artsakh, Featured Story, Latest, National, News, Top Stories
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Rev, Johnnie Moore
Rev, Johnnie Moore

Glendale-based evangelical pastor Johnnie Moore, who frequently visits Baku, was the lone voice dissenting against the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom’s recommendation this week to place Azerbaijan on the State Department’s “Special Watch List” for engaging in or tolerating severe violations of religious freedom pursuant to the International Religious Freedom Act.

In his written dissent arguing that “Azerbaijan does not meet the threshold necessary to be included in this report,” Moore claimed that Azerbaijan has “achieved much more than any of its neighbors” in bringing religious freedom into a post-Soviet legal framework. He also warned his colleagues “not to arbitrarily disregard the [Aliyev] government’s concerns about violent, religious extremism and its national security.”

Moore made no mention of Azerbaijan’s pogroms against its Armenian citizens or its failed war against Artsakh, ignoring entirely Baku’s destruction of Christian Armenian cemeteries and churches – mostly notably the Djulfa cemetery in Nakhichevan, its ongoing cross-border aggression against Artsakh and Armenia, and its relentless state-driven demonization of ethnic Armenians.

Moore is a reliable advocate and apologist for Azerbaijani leader Ilham Aliyev, regularly traveling to Baku as part of a program of well-funded “faith-washing” missions aimed at giving Christian cover to a violent and intolerant regime. As recently as last November, he was quoted by JNS, during a trip to Baku, as saying: “Azerbaijan is a nation that gives us hope that the world can be a better place, a place where religion is a blessing to the world and not a curse—where religion is used to unite and not to divide.” That same month, Christianity Today quoted him as saying: “I believe Azerbaijan is a model for peaceful coexistence between religions.

Moore, a 36-yer-old co-chairman of the Donald Trump 2016 campaign’s evangelical advisory board pays regular visits to the White House.

“This White House, the front door is open to evangelicals,” Moore told The New York Times in 2018, estimating at the time that had visited the White House at least 20 times since Trump took office, averaging nearly once every other week.

“It hasn’t been evangelicals reaching into the White House. It’s been the White House reaching out to evangelicals. Not a day goes by when there aren’t a dozen evangelical leaders in the White House for something,” he told The New York Times.

While Moore, Southern Baptist minister, regularly and robustly praises Azerbaijan on social media, he has remained almost entirely silent about Armenia, the world’s first Christian nation.

Read the full USCIRF report.

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Comments 15

  1. Edward Demiraiakian says:
    2 years ago

    Just another charlatan , skeeming, lying, deceiving the gullible.

    Reply
  2. VaRouge says:
    2 years ago

    Who is this psycho?

    Reply
  3. Raffi says:
    2 years ago

    Money, Money, Money, In the rich man’s world

    Reply
  4. Gurgen says:
    2 years ago

    A nice summary of the rot and pus that constitutes the evangelicals in the US and a very valuable lesson to those foolish Armenians who think that we can align with these morally bankrupt groups because we’re all Christians. Another reason to keep these sects out of Armenia.

    Reply
    • Raffi says:
      2 years ago

      I agree.

      Reply
  5. star says:
    2 years ago

    hmm he looks more like a glendale pastor/agent/spy.

    Reply
  6. john abajian says:
    2 years ago

    Another replusive, complicit liar and sycophant

    Reply
  7. Edward Minaei says:
    2 years ago

    Azeries are actively persiing anti Armenian rhetoric in LA. This looser isn’t the only one carrying out such activities. The escorbal Jewish center in west LA, on Sepulveda regularly hosts the Azerbaijan consulate and Azeri entertainment for LA Jews. They are free to spread their lies there without any objection and Jews are fine with it.
    As fir evangelicals? Republicans love them and sorecially our current president.

    Reply
  8. Zohrab Dishakjian says:
    2 years ago

    Johnnie Aliyev Moore….how much he got for his “licking” his…….

    Reply
  9. Raffi says:
    2 years ago

    I gave a lot of thought, why a pastor like Rev, Johnnie Moore defend criminal state like Azerbaijan where basic human rights dosn’t exist?Conclusion: Money and Hatred towards the Armenians in Glendale. People should not forget the famous Caviar Diplomacy of Azerbaijan. costly invitations of foreign politicians and employees of international organizations to Azerbaijan at the expense of the host country. Caviar Diplomacy also includes expensive gifts presented as “a tribute to the Eastern tradition.

    Reply
    • KO says:
      2 years ago

      Yes, anti-Armenian sentiment has been alive and well in Glendale for decades, with the mindless stereotyping, with plenty of our own self-hating types contributing to it. Won’t be surprising if more weirdos like this pastor begin springing up in such an environment.

      Reply
  10. GB says:
    2 years ago

    Axeri Imam invited him to his harem for a nice oily bath!

    Reply
  11. herayer says:
    2 years ago

    this guy is not a true Christian he sold his soul for 40 pieces of silver he does not want to know the truth because he worships money, JESUS SAID SEEK THE TRUTH WITH ALL YOUR HEAT AND YOU SHALL FIND IT.

    Reply
  12. stepan says:
    2 years ago

    Of all places, he is located in Glendale.

    Reply
  13. Edward Demiraiakian says:
    2 years ago

    Exactly. I expect these charlatans to pander for money. What I don’t understand is, knowing about these meetings, why we don’t send 200 AYF, ARF, Homenatmen members demontrate, raise hell and basicly “cluster fuck” the meetings and the facilities. Thats what the Jews do to Nazi meetings. Get proactive, get violent. What happened to the ANTIFA protesters? Nothing.

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