定義も境界もないこの言葉を、ほとんどの学者は放棄した。それは「他者」を非難するための蔑称としてのみ使われている。しかし、日本では今でも使われている。
Marco Respinti
メイド・イン・ジャパン：家庭連合に信教の自由なし１ 最初の政治的人権の否定
信教の自由とは、信じるか信じないかの自由だけではなく、信じるか信じないかに応じて人生を生きる自由でもある。しかし、日本ではそれが制限されている。家庭連合の事例。
A Cry for Human Rights Rises from Hiroshima—and It Begins With Religious Liberty
The city knows that peace should constantly be advocated for. So does freedom of religion or belief, in Japan and all over the world.
Made in Japan: No FoRB for the Family Federation. 4. Weaponizing Non-Existing Crimes
Defending the rights of Japanese citizens is a duty of Japan’s democratic government. It is not happening in the case of the Family Federation and other religious minorities.
Made in Japan: No FoRB for the Family Federation. 3. Dissolving a Group Is Dissolving Freedom
When victims are presented as perpetrators, a great injustice becomes a blatant absurdity. Yet, it happens in contemporary Japan.
Made in Japan: No FoRB for the Family Federation. 2. Revamping the Debunked Notion of “Cult”
Most scholars have abandoned a word that has no definition and no borders. It is used only as a derogatory term to stigmatize “the other.” Yet, in Japan it is still current.
The United Nations, Tai Ji Men, and the Limits of the State
As the Tai Ji Men case demonstrates, when states claim absolute power, injustice follows.
Made in Japan: No FoRB for the Family Federation. 1. Denying the First Political Human Right
Religious liberty is not only the freedom of believing or non-believing, but that of living one’s life according to one’s belief or non-belief. Yet, Japan curtails it. The case of the Family Federation.
Is Genocide Being Performed Against Ahmadis in Pakistan?
What intention does the project of preventing a whole portion of humanity from being born reveal? Some religious fanatics advocate it. Time to investigate.
Is Tai Ji Men Punished for Making Humanity More Human?
The United Nations should advocate for the immediate solution of the Tai Ji Men case. Only if it does, its universal call to uphold human rights will be sincere.
Marco Respinti
Marco Respinti is an Italian professional journalist, member of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), author, translator, and lecturer. He has contributed and contributes to several journals and magazines both in print and online, both in Italy and abroad. Author of books and chapter in books, he has translated and/or edited works by, among others, Edmund Burke, Charles Dickens, T.S. Eliot, Russell Kirk, J.R.R. Tolkien, Régine Pernoud and Gustave Thibon. A Senior fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal (a non-partisan, non-profit U.S. educational organization based in Mecosta, Michigan), he is also a founding member as well as a member of the Advisory Council of the Center for European Renewal (a non-profit, non-partisan pan-European educational organization based in The Hague, The Netherlands). A member of the Advisory Council of the European Federation for Freedom of Belief, in December 2022, the Universal Peace Federation bestowed on him, among others, the title of Ambassador of Peace. From February 2018 to December 2022, he has been the Editor-in-Chief of International Family News. He serves as Director-in-Charge of the academic publication The Journal of CESNUR and Bitter Winter: A Magazine on Religious Liberty and Human Rights.