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CAP
LC 2008
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THE
NEW WITCH HUNT How the French government and parliament were leaded into a witch-hunt
By Pierre Barrucand Resistance medallist, Honorary Researcher, CNRS
(National Center for Scientific Research) Honorary President of CAP
With the law of 1905 on the separation of Church and state in France,
discrimination appeared to have become impossible and yet only a few
decades ago, France and other western countries saw the emergence of
campaigns against "sects". While anti-sect campaigns have emerged in
many countries, first and foremost the United States, they never received
official support and are currently beginning to fade. Unfortunately,
this is not the case in France, even if it calls itself wrongly the
country of human rights. Two parliamentary enquiry commissions have
devoted their efforts to this alleged sect phenomenon as though they
had nothing more important to do. The commission did not listen to those
who could have enlightened it, i.e. sociologists and religious historians
who are not part of any sect but are objective and without passion.
According to the anti-sect extremists, they are accomplices of sects.
But which crimes are we looking at ? The crime of existing, that is
all.
Thierry Becourt, Chairman, Institut de Psychanimie* *Psychanimie: psychology
inspired by theosophical writings. In this foreword, Thierry Becourt
describes how his life was almost destroyed by this propaganda machine
which fights millenary ideas and pratices as natural healing, believing
in reincarnation, prayer. How he realized that those who would point
out these “curves” and would set up courts without investigations were
not just mislayed good wills. “We will have to resist in order to exist,
while avoiding criticizing other actions, philosophies and practices.”
That is getting into action, but refraining from following amongst minorities
the same behavior we protest against.
When Inquisition raises from dead Centuries of prosecutions and Inquisitions,
that culminated in racial and religious extremism during World War II,
did not produce the logical conclusions. This was however the hope that
brought about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights signed in Paris
in 1948. Instead, while the Government is protecting traditional religions,
it subsidizes groups that attack religious minorities, in violation
of the directions formulated by the European Council on June 22nd 1999.
“ The violence of attacks against a minority always seems abusive and
not tolerable…after the facts” was the conclusion of historian Pierre
Barrucand.
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