News from Borat's Hometown-Kazakhstan

[Wants2Talk]

ASTANA. Feb 3 (Interfax) - The Karaganda Special Inter-District
Economic Court in Kazakhstan is hearing a suit by the prosecution
authorities seeking the liquidation of the religious group called the
Scientology Church of the City of Karaganda.
The prosecution authorities believe the church's activity "runs
counter to principles of national security of the Republic of
Kazakhstan, as it is aimed at undermining Kazakh nation's health through
inflicting harm on people's psychic and physical health," the Kazakh
Prosecutor General's Office said in a statement posted on its website.
"The scientologists have been using elements of medical
technologies amending people's conscience. This activity has been
pursued by people having no medical education outside medical
institutions," it said.
In addition, the church's activity did not meet its charter
provisions, it said.

 

[Dulloldfart]

Liquidation. Sounds heavy. But Scn doesn't seem to be being singled out.

Excerpt from http://www.upiasia.com/Politics/2009/01/28/kazakhstan_launches_attack_on_religion/4371/ published 28 Jan 2009.

First is the pogrom launched by the authorities of Karasayskiy district of Almaty, whose victims were the members of the Society for Krishna Consciousness. The law enforcement officers tore down all the dwellings of the group’s monastics with bulldozers and demolition cranes.

That served as a signal to local officials and law enforcement agencies to launch an onslaught of dirty deeds against any and all “undesirable” religious entities.

From that point searches and confiscation of religious literature began against Jehovah’s Witnesses, Pentecostals, charismatic Christians, Scientologists, the Unification Church, the Akhmady group, etc. A campaign unfolded on television and in the government press to discredit and discriminate against Protestant, neo-Protestant and new religious groups, unprecedented in its ignorance and aggressiveness.

Paul

 

[uniquemand]

Good, they are finally getting rid of religions! Welcome to the 21st Century!

 

[anonymous1312]

"unprecedented in its ignorance and aggressiveness."

I would argue that it is not ignorance that has resulted in this move, such religions can be very damaging, and as for aggressiveness, two words Inquisition and Crusades.

That said I can't condone violence towards people simply because of their religious beliefs.