There is a book entitled
Prison or Paradise? The New Religious Cults, by Rudin. It can be found here:
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www.amazon.com]
And also here:
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books.google.com]
Hassan is mentioned on pages 37-38, and 124 of this book.
Later on, I'll scan and present, in black and white, the pages that I am citing here on this board. For now, I quote from page 38:
"Steve is bitter when he remembers how quickly the church deserted him after his automobile accident. "I deeply believed the group was a loving family that cared about its members. As soon as I was seriously injured and could no longer collect funds or recruit, the Family called my satanic real family.
The Moonies couldn't get rid of me fast enough!" (Emphasis added by myself).
But wait a minute; this account appears to be in contradiction to other accounts of Hassan's story of having left the Unification organization. In the video that I presented above, he is saying that the Goldbergs participated in his being deprogrammed out of the Moonies. In other places, it says that his parents hired former members of the Unification Church to "deprogram" him during his recuperation period, after that fateful accident that broke his legs. In the Rudin book, he is insinuating that the Moonies essentially kicked him out of the group, and that he could not have returned, even if he'd wanted to. So his story seems to change, and he seems to embellish upon it, over time.
And then there's the matter of what exactly his role and function within the Unification organization was. Was he a former "high-ranking" Moonie (his Wiki page says that he was the Assistant Director at the Unification Church's National Headquarters) , or just another van-driving "grunt" among the rank and file? I do not have a copy of
Combating anymore, and so I cannot look it up from that book. Who knows what's true anymore?
The citation for the Rudin book is as follows:
Rudin, A. James, and Marcia R. Rudin. Prison or Paradise?: The New Religious Cults. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1980.Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/30/2014 04:20AM by zeuszor.