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Bitter Winter

A magazine on religious liberty and human rights

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Home / Archives for Anti-Extremism

Anti-Extremism

Inside a Chinese detention center. From the Xinjiang Police Files.

09/29/2022 Hu Zimo

Release on Bail in China: Do the New Rules Really Make It Easier?

The September 2022 rules are hailed as progressive and liberal. But they are unlikely to improve the situation of those arrested for ‘separatism” or religion-related offenses.

The Church of Scientology of Milan. Source: Church of Scientology Milan.

07/15/2021 Alessandro Amicarelli

Recent Studies on Scientology and “Labeling”, Part 2

Rosita Šorytė discusses the political uses of the labels “cult,” “extremist,” and “marginal” to discriminate against the Church of Scientology.

Professor Germana Carobene

07/14/2021 Alessandro Amicarelli

Recent Studies on Scientology and “Labeling”

Two articles discuss how applying labels such as “cult” or “extremist” is used to promote discrimination against minority religions.

Frans Hogenberg (1535–1590), The Calvinist Iconoclastic Riot of August 20, 1566 in Antwerp, at the start of the Flemish wars of religion.

06/04/2021 Massimo Introvigne

“To Stop Islamic Terrorism, Discriminate Against Non-Muslim Religious Movements”

Laws are passed with the alleged aim of combating Islamic radicalism. They are then used against peaceful religionists labeled as “fundamentalists” or “cults.”

Demonstration against the MIVILUDES in Paris.

04/19/2021 Patricia Duval

Des fonds supplémentaires pour la MIVILUDES : une mauvaise idée

La mission gouvernementale de lutte antisectes que son ancien membre, le sociologue Olivier Bobineau, a qualifiée de « police des esprits » va recevoir un budget annuel d’un million d’euros.

Demonstration against the MIVILUDES in Paris.

04/19/2021 Patricia Duval

More Money to MIVILUDES: The French “Mind Police” Is Back

The governmental anti-cult mission that his former member, sociologist Olivier Bobineau, denounced as a “police des esprits” will receive € 1 million per year.

The Palais de Bourbon in Paris, the seat of the lower house of the French Parliament (credits).

12/08/2020 Alessandro Amicarelli

Article 38: New French Anti-Extremism Draft Law Discriminates Against Foreign-Based Religions

A provision allegedly introduced to cut foreign funding to Islamic radical groups may in fact severely limit the activities of hundreds of different religious movements

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