日本における反統一教会キャンペーンは、不人気のマイノリティを差別するために「カルト」というレッテルを用いる酷い例の一つである。
Massimo Introvigne
El asesinato de Abe. ¿Abogados “contra las ventas espirituales” o contra la libertad religiosa?
Después del crimen, los medios tomaron al pie de la letra las declaraciones de los abogados opuestos a la Iglesia de Unificación. A nadie le importaba investigarlos a ellos y su pasado.
The Abe Assassination. The Word “Cult” Is A Tool for Discrimination
The anti-Unification-Church campaign in Japan is another egregious example of the use of the “cult” label to discriminate against unpopular minorities.
安倍暗殺と日本の統一教会：暴徒のつくり方
宗教的マイノリティーに対してどのように憎悪が作り出され、仕向けられるかは、「暴徒心理」の典型的な例である。
L’assassinat d’Abe. Des avocats « contre les ventes spirituelles » – ou contre la liberté religieuse ?
Après le crime, les médias ont pris pour argent comptant les déclarations des avocats anti-Église de l’Unification. Personne ne s’est soucié d’enquêter sur eux ni sur leur passé.
The Abe Assassination and the Unification Church in Japan: How to Create a Mob
How hatred was created and directed against a religious minority is a textbook example of “mob psychology.”
安倍暗殺：統一教会はヘイトスピーチと差別の犠牲者である
元総理が殺されたのち、統一教会の信者たちは殺害の脅迫を受け、職場や学校でいじめられている。
The Abe Assassination. The Unification Church Is Victim of Hate Speech and Discrimination
After the former Prime Minister was killed, Unification Church members receive death threats and are bullied at work and in schools.
‘Bel Bethel’: Jehovah’s Getuigen en seksueel misbruik. 5. De ‘geheime databases’
In de podcast van The Telegraph wordt beweerd dat er geheime lijsten bestaan met de namen van seksueel misbruikers en dat deze lijsten aan de autoriteiten en advocaten van de slachtoffers onthuld moeten worden.
‘Bel Bethel’: Jehovah’s Getuigen en seksueel misbruik. 4. De zaak in Montana
In de podcast van The Telegraph werd kritiek geleverd op een uitspraak van het Hooggerechtshof van Montana in 2020, waarin het professionele verschoningsrecht van geestelijken werd beschermd. Maar de wet is wel correct toegepast.
Massimo Introvigne
Massimo Introvigne (born June 14, 1955 in Rome) is an Italian sociologist of religions. He is the founder and managing director of the Center for Studies on New Religions (CESNUR), an international network of scholars who study new religious movements. Introvigne is the author of some 70 books and more than 100 articles in the field of sociology of religion. He was the main author of the Enciclopedia delle religioni in Italia (Encyclopedia of Religions in Italy). He is a member of the editorial board for the Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion and of the executive board of University of California Press' Nova Religio. From January 5 to December 31, 2011, he has served as the "Representative on combating racism, xenophobia and discrimination, with a special focus on discrimination against Christians and members of other religions" of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). From 2012 to 2015 he served as chairperson of the Observatory of Religious Liberty, instituted by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in order to monitor problems of religious liberty on a worldwide scale.