The anti-Unification-Church campaign in Japan is another egregious example of the use of the “cult” label to discriminate against unpopular minorities.
Anti-Cult
Putin Has a New Great Data Base of Religious (and Non-Religious) “Extremists”
Both books or pamphlets and individuals will be included in a mammoth Orwellian list of targets for exclusion and repression.
New Generation Church: Latvian “Cult” Accused of Pro-Ukrainian Sabotage in Russia
Members of the Riga-based Word of Faith church, which once praised Putin’s anti-LGBT agenda, have been arrested as “agents of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.”
The Family Survival Trust 2022 Report on “Cults”: Reviving the Dead Horse of “Brainwashing”
The British affiliate of FECRIS calls for extending legislation on “coercive control” to new religious movements. In fact, it tries to resurrect the discredited theory of brainwashing.
Ata Zholy: Crackdown on a Kazakh Islamic Religious Movement in Russia
Falsely qualified as “pagan” by anti-cultists, the groups was born from popular Islam and mediums who claimed to channel Sufi saints.
Allya Ayat: A Global Kazakh Esoteric Movement Persecuted in Russia
Russian FECRIS affiliates instigated for years a police repression of the group, which has started again in July 2022.
Russia’ Security Council: New Law Needed to “Neutralize” “Cults” and “Foreign” Religions
Reactions to the events in Ukraine prove that there is still excessive permissiveness in the religious field, the Putin-chaired national security body said.
China Exploits the Abe Assassination to Justify Its Repression of “Illegal” Religion
“If you persecute non-official religions, nobody can make donations to them, and donors’ relatives will not protest by assassinating people”
Abe’s Assassination: An Anti-Cult Hate Crime?
Media hysteria against the Unification Church, not the Unification Church itself, may have excited the weak mind of the killer.
Russian Anti-Cult Indoctrination for Students of Occupied Ukraine
Anti-cultist Roman Silantyev called the Ukrainian leadership “neopagan and occult” and explained that an independent Ukraine will soon no longer exist.