La lucha contra la trata de seres humanos es una empresa digna. Utilizar las leyes contra el tráfico de seres humanos para reprimir a las minorías espirituales y resucitar las teorías pseudocientíficas del lavado de cerebro no lo es. Doce organizaciones internacionales de libertad religiosa protestan.
Fighting human trafficking is a worthy enterprise. Weaponizing human trafficking laws to crack down on spiritual minorities and resurrect the dead horse of brainwashing theories is not. Twelve international religious liberty organizations protest.
When anti-cultists discovered that the respected scholar was also the president of an organization promoting biodynamic agriculture and an admirer of Rudolf Steiner, all hell broke loose.
He has asked his son to delete his Facebook post about his visit to Harbin and now claims the trip has been invented by “Ukrainian media.”
In both China and Russia, Alexander Novopashin (with FECRIS until March 2023) lends a helping hand to the murderous anti-Falun-Gong campaign
Periódicamente, libros y medios de comunicación reviven la vieja discusión sobre el “lavado de cerebro”. Sólo hay un problema al respecto: eso no existe.
Academic Sergei Markov absurdly claimed on prime-time state TV that Ukraine cooperates with Neuro-Linguistic Programming to brainwash soldiers who become homosexual, zombie-like, and invincible.
Las teorías sobre la “persuasión coercitiva” que la mayoría de los estudiosos de la religión consideran desacreditadas desde hace décadas son promovidas oficialmente por organismos gubernamentales.
Theories about “coercive persuasion” most scholars of religion regard as debunked from decades are officially advocated by governmental agencies.
A scholarly article notes how in France “political power can be weaponized against minority religions with the backing of the state.”