Discriminatory Draft Law Violates Fundamental Religious Rights
Belgium Discriminatory Draft Law Violates Fundamental Religious Rights (André Frédéric) Introduction This submission concerns proposed legislation in Belgium containing provisions designed to discriminate against targeted religions derogatorily designated as...Police attacks the office of the Institute for Peace and Democracy
Azerbaijani human rights advocate Leyla Yunus has declared about a police attack on her office in Baku June 13, 2011. “The police attacked the office of the Institute for Peace and Democracy (IPD) at Shamsi Badalbelli Street,” Leyla Yunus told Radio Liberty. “I had...How the French government and parliament were leaded into a witch-hunt
The phenomenon of religious persecution has been known through the ages, as witness the Bacchanals affair in Rome in 187 BC or even, if we may believe Aristophanes, the process against Socrates, accused of having wanted to introduce a new religion. These persecutions were particularly intense against monotheistic religions, even though they tolerated the practice of several ancient cults with which they felt ties. In the 19th century, the French revolution hailed the end of persecution of protestants and marked the integration of Jews in the nation, even if refractory priests were treated extremely harshly. With the law of 1905 on the separation of church and state in France, discrimination appeared to have become impossible and yet only a few decades ago, France and other western countries saw the emergence of campaigns against “sects”. The word sect has two origins: a minority group that has separated (from the Latin secare) or a group that has followed a leader (from the Latin sequi).
Who is behind the Israeli Center for Victims of Cults?
“Self enhancement workshops? Course in Kabala? Meditation? Yoga? “The Israeli Center for Victims of Cults” doesn’t care: as far as they are concerned these are cults that should be fought. “7 Days” exposes the fact that the Center...
