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Lijsten van vermeende sekten
Het gebruik van de term sekte (of in het Engels ook cult) voor religieuze bewegingen in overheidsdocumenten komt over het algemeen overeen met het alledaagse en negatieve gebruik van het woord sekte.[1][2] Verslagen van de overheid of door de overheid aangestelde commissies waarin de woorden sekte of cult werden gebruikt, kwamen voor in België,[3] Duitsland,[4] Canada,[5] Frankrijk,[6] Oostenrijk[7] en de Verenigde Staten.[8] Hoewel deze documenten gelijkaardige bewoordingen gebruiken, bevatten ze niet noodzakelijk dezelfde groepen, noch zijn er vaststaande criteria om een groep al dan niet in de lijst op te nemen.[1][2] Ook andere regeringen deden onderzoek naar [nieuwe] religieuze bewegingen, maar gebruikten de termen sekte of cult.[1]
Australië
In Australië verwees het Parlement van South Wales op 24 november 1992 naar Kenja Communication as cult.[9]
België
Parlementaire Onderzoekscommissie (1997)
De juridische commissie van de Belgische Kamer van Volksvertegenwoordigers benoemde een parlementaire onderzoekscommissie om een beleid in verband met sekten uit te stippelen. Op 28 april 1997 presenteerde de onderzoekscommissie een 670 bladzijden tellend verslag[3] dat een lijst bevatte van 189 groepen en bewegingen, en vermeldde dat "[t]he fact that a movement is listed here, even if at the instigation of an official instance, does not signify that the Commission regards it as a cult". Het parlement aanvaardde niet het hele verslag, en stemde ervoor om enkel de conclusies en aanbevelingen van de onderzoekscommissie aan te nemen (19 bladzijden), maar niet de lijst. Hoewel niet de hele lijst aangenomen werd, publiceerde de commissie het hele verslag.[10] Volgens Human Rights Without Frontiers International werd de Belgische Kamer van Volksvertegenwoordigers in 2005 veroordeeld voor het schade toebrengen aan het imago van een organisatie (Universal Church of God’s Kingdom), die voorkwam in de lijst van de parlementaire onderzoekscommissie uit 1997.[11]
De lijst van bewegingen en groepen in het document van de onderzoekscommissie uit België:
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Canada
Een verslag van de Canadian Security Intelligence Service uit 1999 behandelde „Doomsday Religious Movements espousing hostile beliefs and having the potential to be violent...” (Doemsdag-religieuze bewegingen met vijandige geloofspunten en met potentieel tot gewelddadigheid. Groepen die in Canada als Doomsday Relgious Movements werden behandeld, waren:
- the Branch Davidians
- the Tin Yat lineage
- Canada’s Order of the Solar Temple
- Aum Shinrikyo (genaamd de ’Aum cult’)[5]
In 2005 nam de Hate Crimes Unit van de politie van Edmonton anti-Falun Gong-materiaal in beslag dat verspreid werd op de jaarlijkse conferentie van de American Family Foundation door medewerkers van het Chinees Consulaat van Calvary (Provincie Alberta, Canada). Het materiaal, waarin Falun Gong een cult werd genoemd, werd beschouwd als een inbreuk op de wetgeving (Criminal Code) waarin het opzettelijk bevorderen van haat tegen identificeerbare religieuze groepen wordt verboden.[12]
China
Het Algemeen Bureau van het Ministerie van Openbare Veiligheid van de Volksrepubliek China houdt een lijst bij van wat het Bureau beschouwt als ’schadelijke sekten’. De titel luidt: Information Regarding the Organizations Already Identified as Cults (Informatie omtrent de organisaties die reeds als sekten werden geïdentificeerd). Onder de groepen is het op het christendom gebaseerde Eastern Lightning.[13] De volgelingen van Watchman Nee (the Shouters) zouden in 1983 als eersten op de lijst zijn geplaatst.[14] Andere groepen op christelijke basis in deze lijst zijn: The Shouters 2 (Chinese Shouters), Established King, de Heer God-’sekte’ (Lord God Sect), de Lingling-’sekte’, de All Scope Church, de Zuid-China Kerk (South China Church), de Discipelen (Disciples Sect), de Drie Graden van Dienst (Three Ranks of Service), de Koud Water-’sekte’ (Cold Water Sect), the Commune Sect, de Nieuw Testament Kerk (New Testament Church), de Opstandings-’sekte’ Resurrection Sect, de Dami Evangelism Association, en de World Elijah Evangelism Association.[15] In 2001, Falun Gong was added to the list.[16]
Duitsland
Verslag van de Berlijnse senaat (1997)
In een officieel verslag van een commissie van de Senaat van de stad en deelstaat Berlijn, werden Sekten opgesomd en besproken. Door de ondertitel werden ze gecategoriseerd als groepen die een levensbeschouwing aannemen en nieuwe religies. Het verslag van de Berlijnse Senaat uit 1997, met de titel „Sekten“: Risiken und Nebenwirkungen: Informationen zu ausgewählten neuen religiösen und weltanschaulichen Bewegungen und Psychoangeboten. („Sekten”: risico’s en bijwerkingen: informatie over geselecteerde religieuze en levensbeschouwelijke bewegingen en psycho-aanbiedingen)[4] — bevatte volgende geselecteerde aanbieders:
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Frankrijk
In 1995 publiceerde een parlementaire commissie van de Nationale Vergadering van Frankrijk National Assembly of France een verslag over ’sekten’.[6] (niet-officiële Engelse vertaling). The report included a list of purported cults compiled by the general information division of the French National Police (Renseignements généraux — a French police service) in association with cult-watching groups.
In May 2005 the then Prime Minister of France, in a circulaire,[17] which stressed that the government must exercise vigilance concerning the cult phenomenon,[17] said that the list of movements attached to the Parliamentary Report of 1995 had become less pertinent, based on the observation that many small groups had formed: scattered, more mobile, and less-easily identifiable,[17] and that the government needed to balance its concern with cults with respect for public freedoms and laïcité (secularism).[17] Subsequent French parliamentary commissions on cults reported on specific aspects of cult activity in 1999[18] and in 2006.[19]
Verslag van de Franse parlementaire commissie (1995)
De opinie is in Frankrijk verdeeld over het verslag van de parlementaire commissie uit 1995. Een provincierechtbank stelde dat al deze parlementaire geen juridische uitwerking hebben.[20] And as stated above, a Prime Ministerial circulaire warned that name-changes had reduced the usefulness of this particular Parliamentary report.[17]
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Verslag van de Franse parlementaire onderzoekscommissie (1999)
The French Parliamentary report of 1999 on cults and money[22] concentrated its attention on some 30 groups which it judged as major players in respect of their financial influence.[23] It underlined the non-exhaustive character of its investigations, seeing them as a snapshot at a point in time and based on informatiion available.[24]
De onderzochte groepen omvatten:[22][23]
- Anthroposophie (Antroposofie)
- Au Cœur de la Communication (At the Heart of Communication)
- Contre-réforme catholique (League for Catholic Counter-Reformation)
- Dianova (Ex-Le Patriarche) (Dianova (formerly: the Patriarch))
- Église du Christ (Boston Church of Christ)
- Église Néo-apostolique (New Apostolic Church)
- Énergo-Chromo-Kinèse (ECK)
- Fédération d'agrément des réseaux (ex-Groupement européen des professionnels du marketing) (Federation of the networks of agreement (formerly: European Grouping of Marketing Professionals (GEPM))
- Fraternité blanche universelle (Universal White Brotherhood)
- Invitation à la Vie (Invitation to Life)
- Innergy (Insight Seminars)
- Krishna (Hare Krishna movement)
- Landmark (Landmark Education)
- Mahikari (Sûkyô Mahikari)
- Mandarom
- Méthode Avatar (Avatar Method)
- Moon (Unification Church)
- Mouvement du Graal (Grail Movement)
- Mouvement Raëlien (Raelian Movement)
- Nouvelle Acropole (New Acropolis)
- Office culturel de Cluny (Cultural office of Cluny – National Federation of Total Animation)
- Ogyen Kunzang Chöling
- Orkos (Anopsology)
- Pentecôte de Besançon (Evangelical Pentecostal Church of Besançon)
- Prima Verba
- Rose-Croix - AMORC (Rosicrucian Order)
- Rose-Croix d'Or (Gold Rosicrucian Brotherhood)
- Scientologie (Scientology)
- Soka Gakkaï (Sōka Gakkai)
- La méthode Silva (The Silva Method)
- Témoins de Jéhovah (Jehovah's Witnesses)
- Tradition Famille Propriété (Tradition Family Property)
Oostenrijk
Beginning in 2011, the United States Department of State's International Religious Freedom Report, as released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor no longer distinguishes sects in Austria as a separate group. Rather, religious groups are divided into three legal categories: officially recognized religious societies, religious confessional communities, and associations.[25] In the most recent year for which sects were officially recognized in Austria, the groups included the Church of Scientology, the Unification Church, the Divine Light Mission, Eckankar, Hare Krishna, Osho movement, Sahaja Yoga, Sai Baba, Sri Chinmoy, Transcendental Meditation, Fiat Lux, Universal Life, and The Family.[26]
Rusland
In 2008 the Russian Interior Ministry prepared a list of "extremist groups." At the top of the list were Islamic groups outside of "traditional Islam," which is supervised by the Russian government. Next listed were "Pagan cults".[27] In 2009 the Russian Ministry of Justice created a council which it named "Council of Experts Conducting State Religious Studies Expert Analysis." The new council listed 80 large sects which it considered potentially dangerous to Russian society, and mentioned that there were thousands of smaller ones. Large sects listed included: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Jehovah's Witnesses, and what were called "neo-Pentecostals." [28]
Verenigde Staten
Committee on Government Reform (August 1999)
- Suspect Organizations and Individuals Possessing Long-Range Fifty Caliber Sniper Weapons
A report to the United States House of Representatives, Section VI is entitled "Montana Doomsday Religious Cult - "Church Universal and Triumphant".
Project Megiddo (October 1999)
Project Megiddo consisted of an FBI analysis, with a report released on October 20, 1999.[30] The report warned against: "the potential for extremist criminal activity in the United States by individuals or domestic groups who attach special significance to the year 2000."[30] Its analysis focused on apocalyptic religious groups, doomsday cults and (New World Order) conspiracy theories.
The report discussed the potential for violence in groups that it called "biblically-driven cults"[31] The report warned that "less time spent on Bible study and more time spent on physical training - indicate that the cult may be preparing for some type of action."[30] Groups singled out and analyzed in the report under the heading "Apocalyptic Cults" included the Branch Davidians, the Concerned Christians, and Law Revue.[30] The International Asatru-Odinic Alliance accused the FBI of violating its First Amendment rights to freedom of religion, free speech, and peaceful assembly. The reason given for this accusation was the propagation of "numerous false statements and innuendos" about Odinism in the Project Megiddo report.[32]
Assessing the Threat (December 1999)
On December 15, 1999 the Advisory Panel to Assess Domestic Response Capabilities for Terrorism Involving Weapons of Mass Destruction presented a report called Assessing the Threat to the President of the United States and to the United States Congress. The report discusses the 1984 contamination of salad bars in Oregon by the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh group, and the Aum Shinrikyo Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway of 1995. Both groups are referred to as cults in the report.[8]
Controversen
Frankrijk
The criteria chosen by the French Renseignements généraux to establish the potential dangers of a movement were criticized since they were considered vague and may include many organizations, religious or not. One of the first criticisms came from bishop Jean Vernette, the national secretary of the French episcopate to the study of cults and new religious movements, who stressed that these criteria can be applied to almost all religions. Moreover, sociologists such as Bruno Étienne emphasized that the mental manipulation should not be defined by the policemen of the Renseignements généraux.[33] The list of cults was based on the criteria defined by the Renseignements généraux, but without specifying which of their practices are specifically criticized. In addition, the secrecy of the work made by the RG led to questions about the presence or absence of certain organizations in the list. Étienne questioned the presence of the CEDIPAC SA company, formerly known as European Grouping of Marketing Professionals (GEPM), as its activity is not in the religious field.[34] The absence of Opus Dei or the Freemasons also raised questions.[35][36] In 2007, Yves Bertrand, General Director of the Renseignements généraux from 1992 to 2003, spoke about his collaborative work with the parliamentary reports on cults, and said: "Alongside genuine and dangerous cults practicing removal of school, abuse of weakness or pedophilia, some groups have been a bit quickly dress up of the word cult".[37] Furthermore, on 27 May 2005, the 1995 list of cults of the French report was officially cancelled and invalidated by Jean-Pierre Raffarin's circulaire.[38]
In France, Antoinism was classified as a cult in the 1995 parliamentary reports which considered it one of the oldest healer groups.[39] However, in a 1984 letter, the French Minister of the Interior wrote that the movement was considered, from an administrative point of view, as having for exclusive purpose the exercise of a religion, thus complying with the 18th and 19th Articles of the 1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State. He added that antoinism had always been allowed to receive bequests or donations, which meant that its religious nature was never challenged.[40] In addition, many anti-cults activists, associations or watchers said they had not noticed cultic deviances in this group. For example, when heard by the Belgian commission on cults, philosopher Luc Nefontaine said that "the establishment of a directory of cult movements (...) seems to him dangerous, because it would also give a bad image of quite honourable organizations such as (...) Antoinism".[41] Eric Brasseur, director of Centre for information and advice on harmful cultish organizations (Centre d'information et d'avis sur les organisations sectaires nuisibles, or CIAOSN) said: "This is a Belgian worship for which we have never had a complaint in 12 years, a rare case to report".[42] Similarly, in 2013, the Interministerial Mission for Monitoring and Combatting Cultic Deviances (Mission interministérielle de vigilance et de lutte contre les dérives sectaires, or MIVILUDES) made this comment: "We have never received reporting from Antoinists. They heal through prayer, but as long as they do not prevent people from getting proper treatment by legal means..." In addition, the Renseignements généraux stopped monitoring the religion given the absence of any problem.[43] In 2002, the national service "Pastoral, sects and new beliefs" ("Pastorale, sectes et nouvelles croyances"), which analyses new religious movements from a catholic point of view, wrote about Antoinism: "Although listed among the cults in the 1995 Parliamentary Report, it has no cultish feature."[44] Similarly, the French sociologist Régis Dericquebourg, who deeply studied the religion, concluded that Antoinism is not a cult: it "has no totalitarian influence on its members, and do not dictate their behaviour to get in the world; it is not exclusive [and] shows no hostility towards social systems".[45]
In France, the 1995 parliamentary report listed the Shri Ram Chandra Mission. This has been criticized by lawyer Lawrence Hincker, who said that "this system of meditation, called Sahaj Marg, does not lead to a life away from the world. It integrates all aspects of man, whether physical, mental or spiritual, without charge or austerity or penance or self-negation".[46] According to the sociologist Bruno Étienne, an expert on religious issues, the SRCM publishes books as any other group but does not proselytize, and has never been convicted: "To us, it is fully a NMR (new religious movement), modern religious group, although based on an ancient tradition, and subject to serious arguments advanced by others more knowledgeable, we do not understand why it is criticized on the list of the damned".[47] Raphaël Liogier, Director of the Observatory of religious and university professor at the Institut d'Études Politiques in Aix-en-Provence, said he did not understand the inclusion on the cult list of an association that is fully recognized in India.[48]
Zie ook
Verwijzingen
- ↑ 1,0 1,1 1,2 Richardson, James T. and Introvigne, Massimo (2001). ‘Brainwashing’ Theories in European Parliamentary and Administrative Reports on ‘Cults’ and ‘Sects’. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 40 (2): 143–168. DOI:10.1111/0021-8294.00046.
- ↑ 2,0 2,1 Robbins, Thomas (2002). Combating ‘Cults’ and ‘Brainwashing’ in the United States and Europe: A Comment on Richardson and Introvigne’s Report. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 40 (2): 169–76. DOI:10.1111/0021-8294.00047.
- ↑ 3,0 3,1 Enquête Parlementaire visant à élaborer une politique en vue de lutter contre les practiques illégales des sectes et le danger qu'elles représentent pour la société et pour les personnes, particulièrement les mineurs d'âge. Rapport fait au nom de la Commission d'enquête par MM. Duquesne et Willems. Partie II. Online – tweetalig verslag: Frans/Nederlands.
- ↑ 4,0 4,1 Rühle (ed.), Anne, Ina Kunst, "Sekten": Risiken und Nebenwirkungen: Informationen zu ausgewählten neuen religiõsen und weltanschaulichen Bewegungen und Psychoangeboten., 2nd (German), Senatsverwaltung für Schule, Jugend and Sport. [Senate Administration for School, Youth and Sport] [1994] (December 1997). Opgehaald op 2007-02-06
- ↑ 5,0 5,1 "Doomsday Religious Movements", PERSPECTIVES, a Canadian Security Intelligence Service publication, Report # 2000/03, December 18, 1999. available online, last updated November 1, 2000.
- ↑ 6,0 6,1 French report, 1995, English translation, National Assembly of France, Parliamentary Commission report.
- º International Religious Freedom Report 2006 - Austria, uitgegeven door het Bureau van Democratie, Mensenrechten en Werk (Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor), United States Department of State.
„The vast majority of groups termed ‘sects’ by the Government were small organizations with fewer than 100 members. Among the larger groups was the Church of Scientology, with between 5,000 and 6,000 members, and the Unification Church, with approximately 700 adherents throughout the country. Other groups found in the country included Divine Light Mission, Eckankar, Hare Krishna, the Holosophic community, the Osho movement, Sahaja Yoga, Sai Baba, Sri Chinmoy, Transcendental Meditation, Landmark Education, the Center for Experimental Society Formation, Fiat Lux, Universal Life, and The Family.” - ↑ 8,0 8,1 Advisory Panel to Assess Domestic Response Capabilities for Terrorism Involving Weapons of Mass Destruction, Assessing The Threat: First Annual Report to The President and The Congress of the Advisory Panel to Assess Domestic Response Capabilities for Terrorism Involving Weapons of Mass Destruction (PDF), DIANE Publishing (December 15, 1999), p. 18, 24, 26, 28, 38, 40, 46–51
- º Hon. S. B. MUTCH. "Kenja Cult", Parliament of New South Wales, transcript, www.parliament.nsw.gov.au, November 24, 1992. Geraadpleegd op 2008-08-10.
- º Fautré, Willy (2002). The Sect Issue in France and in Belgium (PDF). Human Rights Without Frontiers Int.. Geraadpleegd op 2007-01-23.
- º Human Rights Without Frontiers International: Human Rights in Belgium Jaarverslag (Annual Report) (Events in 2005).
- º Edmonton Police Report of Wilful Promotion of Hatred by Chinese Consular Officials against Falun Gong, Appendix 8, bij Bloody Harvest: Revised Report into Allegations of Organ Harvesting of Falun Gong Practitioners in China, door David Matas, Esq. and Hon. David Kilgour, Esq.
- º Jason Kindopp, Carol Lee Hamrin (editors), God and Caesar in China, Brookings Institution Press, 2004, ISBN 0815749368, page 73
- º Daniel H. Bays, A New History of Christianity in China, Wiley-Blackwell, 2012, ISBN 9781405159548
- º Fenggang Yang, Religion in China: Survival and Revival under Communist Rule, 2011, Oxford University Press, ISBN13: 9780199735648, pages 102-195
- º US Commission on International Religious Freedom, 2001, US GPO, page 28
- ↑ 17,0 17,1 17,2 17,3 17,4 Raffarin, Jean-Pierre (2005-06-01). Circulaire du 27 mai 2005 relative à la lutte contre les dérives sectaires (in French). JORF n°126 du 1 juin 2005 page 9751 texte n° 8 pp. 9751. République Française. Geraadpleegd op 2007-07-26.
- º ASSEMBLÉE NATIONALE (1999-06-10). Les sectes et l'argent [Cults and money] (in French). République Française. Geraadpleegd op 3007-07-26.
- º Fenech, Georges (2006-06-21). RAPPORT FAIT AU NOM DE LA COMMISSION DES LOIS CONSTITUTIONNELLES, DE LA LÉGISLATION ET DE L'ADMINISTRATION GÉNÉRALE DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE SUR LA PROPOSITION DE RÉSOLUTION (n° 3107) DE M. VUILQUE ET PLUSIEURS DE SES COLLÈGUES tendant à la création d'une commission d'enquête relative à l'influence des mouvements à caractère sectaire et aux conséquences de leurs pratiques sur la santé physique et mentale des mineurs (in French). République Française. Geraadpleegd op 2008-07-26.
- º TRIBUNAL ADMINISTRATIF DE CAEN N° 0500913 (in French) (PDF). Le Tribunal administratif de Caen, (1er Chambre) (2007). Geraadpleegd op 2008-07-26.
- º Cults, Religion & Violence 2002 ISBN 05216689805 Sjabloon:Please check ISBN, (Listed as "Dangerous" by the French Parliamentary Commission (1996), also defined as "enemies of the state" in Greece, 1993).
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- º Assemblée Nationale (1999-06-10). Les sectes et l'argent - Annexes (Cults and money - Appendices) (in French). République Française. Geraadpleegd op 2009-04-20.
- º International Religious Freedom Report for 2012. Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. Geraadpleegd op 2013-09-03.
- º Austria. Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (2011-09-13). Geraadpleegd op 2013-09-03.
- º The new nobility : the restoration of Russia's security state and the enduring legacy of the KGB, Author: Andreĭ Soldatov; I Borogan, Publisher: New York, NY : PublicAffairs, ©2010. pages 65-66
- º Persecuted: The Global Assault on Christians (Google eBook), Paul Marshall, 2013, Thomas Nelson Inc
- º Suspect Organizations and Individuals Possessing Long-Range Fifty Caliber Sniper Weapons, United States House of Representatives, Committee on Government Reform, August 17, 1999., VI: Additional Cases: "Montana Doomsday Religious Cult - "Church Universal and Triumphant", Page 8.
The GAO investigators found a 1989 case in Montana in which members of a "doomsday religious cult" had stockpiled many weapons, including several fifty caliber weapons. The cult is called the "Church Universal and Triumphant" (C.U.T.), and its leader is Elizabeth Clare Prophet. The cult was in the process of building underground bunkers to prepare for the end of the world. This investigation began because Ms. Prophet's and another cult member used birth certificates of deceased individuals to obtain driver's licenses so that they could purchase and stockpile weapons.
In an ATF crackdown, agents found that the cult members had illegally acquired hundreds of weapons and thousands of rounds of ammunition. Among this stockpile was ten semi-automatic fifty caliber weapons purchased with false identifications. The cult members were convicted of illegally purchasing firearms. According to GAO, Ms. Prophet continues to lead the cult and was not charged in connection with these offenses. - ↑ 30,0 30,1 30,2 30,3 Project Megiddo, FBI Strategic Assessment, October 20, 1999, retrieved 2007-07-03
- º Project Megiddo (PDF) pp. 4. FBI. Geraadpleegd op 2008-10-13.
- º IAOA news release
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- º (23 June 2005)La fin des listes noires. Le Point. Geraadpleegd op 10 September 2010.
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