This page has been erected to provide information and documentation of officially sanctioned discrimination against religious minorities in today’s Germany. Abuses against parishioners of the Church of Scientology form the major focus. But other minority groups are also targeted.
The founder of Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard, wrote that the price of Freedom is "Constant alertness, constant willingness to fight back. There is no other price." That is the spirit in which we have erected this page. We encourage members of groups in Germany that are experiencing officially-endorsed discrimination to contact us with details of the abuses they have suffered.
The “Hatewatch” site is now called “Religious Freedom Alert: Germany.”
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Ethnic Cleansing in Germany
A Symposium
“Members of religious and ethnic minorities have been banned from
political parties, dismissed from their jobs, excluded from professional and
trade associations, denied bank accounts, ostracized in their communities,
beaten up and subjected to other forms of discrimination solely because of
their minority affiliation. And the German government has been either actively engaged in or tacitly consenting....”
Artistic Freedom Threatened in Germany
The freedom to create and communicate an artist's vision free from state
interference is the most cherished of all freedoms and the most fundamental of
human rights. Yet, the German government continues its policy to blacklist artists on the basis of religious belief.
Press Statements of January 98
Religious Apartheid 1996:
Official Repression of Minority Religious Rights in Germany.
Religiöse Apartheid 1996:
Unterdrückung von Grundrechten Religiöser Minderheiten in Deutschland
Religious Apartheid 1997:
Continuing Official Repression of Minority
Religious Rights in Germany.
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