German Leader Wants To Ban Church of Scientology: Illinois Nazis Look On
GERMANS banning things: “BERLIN (AP) - Germany could be asked to ban the U.S.-based Church of Scientology under a Hamburg security official’s proposal that contends the group violates human rights.”
Hamburg’s secretary of the interior, Udo Nagel, plans to seek a nationwide ban of Scientology at this week’s meeting of top German security officials, spokeswoman Ulrike Sweden said Monday.
The German government considers Scientology a commercial enterprise that takes advantage of vulnerable people. During the summer, it initially refused to allow the producers of a movie starring Scientology member Tom Cruise as Germany’s most famous anti-Hitler plotter to film at the site where the hero was executed, although it did not expressly state Scientology as its reason.
German Scientologists. Illinois Nazis…
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December 21st, 2007 at 8:22 am
They banned Tom Cruise from filming in Germany based on his choice of belief system. They now claim to be banning Scientology based on some some suspect logic that this is in aid of human rights. This has got to be the ultimate in hipocrasy. I noticed that in the last couple of years, the Church of Scientology has sponsored the education of the International Declaration of Human rights. A European Human Rigths office was recently opened. The United Nations has often commended Scientology for its endevors to promote the rights of all. In contrast, Germany is, by record, one of the worst human rights violators in Europe. The fact that they are asking questions like “How Dangerous is The Cruies Cult?” is remeniscent of Nazi hate propaganda against the Jews. The fact that the current hate attacks are hiding under the disguise of democracy and human rights is unbelievably blatant. Hate campaigns like this have been used down through history to destroy one group or another. These campaings rely on the natural fear of uneducated populations to gain support. The result is the eventual vilification and destruction of a group of people and their rigth to practice whatever it is they choose believe in.
December 7th, 2007 at 9:27 am
This is definitely a case of the pot calling the kettle black. Germany has repeatedly been taken to task for its violations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights with regards to suppressing minority religions:
http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61650.htm