AU Senator Calls Scientology a "Criminal Organization"

An anonymous reader passes along news that an Australian senator, Nick Xenophon, has denounced the Church of Scientology as "a criminal organization" from the floor of Parliament. "Senator Xenophon used a speech in Parliament last night to raise allegations of widespread criminal conduct within the church, saying he had received letters from former followers detailing claims of abuse, false imprisonment, and forced abortion. He says he has passed on the letters to the police and is calling for a Senate inquiry into the religion and its tax-exempt status." It wasn't that long ago that the CoS was calling for Net censorship in Australia; a month later the organization was convicted of fraud in France.

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Re:A word on Xenophon

[L4t3r4lu5]

There was a guy in my Computer Science class called Xavier.

He pronounced it as "Zaviyay". Ponce.

Re:Hmm

[microbox]

To me, all religions are a scam.

Spoken like a true bigot.

The world religions contain deep and ancient knowledge about the human condition. It doesn't take a particularly smart person to work that out -- just someone with an open mind.

Re:What a difference 2000 years makes!

[drinkypoo]

To think that Scientology is on a par with the average world religion is a relativist mistake.

You're right. The only other world religion I can think of which is guilty of all of those things is the Catholic Church, and perhaps the Jesuit one. Of course, the Catholics also have that whole institutionalized relocation of child molesters thing, where they transport pederasts all over the world so that they can rape an international assortment of young boys. So far, only the Catholics thus have the Scientologists beat for pure evil. If you add in things in the past like discouraging education to dissuade followers from developing their own interpretation of the bible, then you can perhaps term them the most evil organization which has ever been.