FWD: Le Monde Diplomatique, June 2001

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> EUROPE RESISTS AMERICAN RELIGIOUS CULTS
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>  Secular society at stake
>  
>  by BRUNO FOUCHEREAU
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>       The Swiss conductor Michel Tabachnik was charged with criminal
>       conspiracy in connection with the Order of the Solar Temple this
>       April in France: 71 of its members had died in four so-called
>       collective suicides from 1994 to 1997. The case focused attention
>       on groups which claim to be religious sects, but are instead
>       engaged in money-making activities. France is now ushering in
>       legislation that will allow the courts to dissolve such movements.
>       The US administration is, however, trying to ensure their impunity
>       on grounds of religious freedom and supports various cults which
>       peddle forms of new-right and neo-conservative ideology in the name
>       of anti-communism.
>       
>                                                Translated by Barry Smerin
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>         <http://www.en.monde-diplomatique.fr/2001/06/09sects>
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