JUGEMテーマ：ニュース
インターナショナル・ニューヨークタイムズの一面に、ロシアは「エホバの証人」を“過激派”として禁止する方向だという記事が掲載されています。
その理由は、エホバの証人の父親が、アルカイダかISに関係しているという理由の模様ですが、詳しくは原文を読んでください。
問題は、日本ではそのような関連はないかということです。
日頃から、おとなしそうなご婦人方が、品よく布教されているのをみると、そんなアルカイダとかISなどと関係しているように見えないのですが、組織としてそうであるならば、日本でも禁止すべき活動ではないかと思います。
現在、「共謀罪」なるものが喧々諤々で議論されていますが、「エホバの証人」は、当然その範疇に入る結社になってしまうでしょう。でも、違うということを証明しないといけないのです。
個別の人格とは違うところにある「組織」!!
それならば、この新法律案に引っかかります。もう少し、深く観察する必要があり、本当に心の開放だけの新興宗教として存在することを期待します。
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The new york times international edition friday,april,7,2017
A dedicated pacifist who has never even held a gun ,Andrei Sivak discovered that his government considered him a dangerous extremist when he tried to change some money and the teller"suddenly looked up at me with a face full of fear."
His name had popped up on the exchange bureau's computer system,along with those of members of Al Qaeda, the Islamic State and other millitant groups responsible for shocking acts of violence.
The only group the 43-year-old father of three has ever belonged to, however, is Jehovah's Witnesses, a Christian denomination committed to the brief that the Bible must be taken literally,paticularly its injunction"Thou shalt not kill. "
Yet, in a throw back to the days of Soviet Union, when Jehovah's Witnesses were hounded as spies and malcontents by the K.G.B., the denomination is at the center of an escalating campaign by the authorities to curtail religous groups that compete with the Russian Orthodox Church and that challenge President Vladimir V.Putin's efforts to rally the country behind traditional. often militalistic patriotic values.
Last month,the ministry asked the Supreme Court to outlaw the religious organization and stop its more than 170,000
Russian members from spreading "extremist" texts. The court began hearing the case on Wednesday.
Extremism, as defined by a law passed in 2002 but amended and expanded several times since, has become a catchall charge that can be deployed against just about anybody, as it has been against some of those involved in recent anticorruption protests in Moscow and scores of other cities.
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