Talk:Youth for human rights
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The following material is a discussion of Scientology and belongs on the Scientology page. An examination of Youth for Human Rights easily confirms that it does not promote Scientology doctrine [1]. They are different subjects, and this effort to identify them is inaccurate.
The references to "critics" and "accusations" specific to Youth for Human Rights are uncited.
[edit] Controversy
YHRI and another group, the International Foundation for Human Rights and Tolerance, have been accused of serving as front groups for Scientology. Shuttleworth is president of both groups. Shuttleworth and Bowles are longtime Scientologists, as are many of the staff.
Historically, Scientology's initial excursion into human rights was part of an anti-psychiatry campaign that it began in the 1960s, founding the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) in 1969. According to Hubbard, Scientology was to wage that campaign in order "to take over absolutely the field of mental healing." [1] In this light, Scientology's interest in human rights is tactical rather than ideological, serving to disguise its attack on a branch of medecine that it regards as its direct competition -- psychiatry. Medecine would treat the mentally ill and unstable; Scientology would recruit them.
Aside from promoting human rights, critics have said, YHRI has three purposes: 1) it associates Scientology with more mainstream ideals, polishing its reputation; 2) it pushes for Scientology to be accepted as a religion, rather than monitored as a cult, as it is in several European countries; and 3) it provides Scientology with an avenue to distribute its materials to minors, who may be susceptible to its recruiting methods.[2]
In his book Combatting Cult Mind Control, Steven Hassan reveals how the Unification Church, or Moonies, employed similar methods to recruit him and other college students for the International One World Crusade, which claimed to bridge cultural differences but in fact served as a front group to swell the membership of the Church during the 1970s.
In December 2006, a parliamentary investigation published in France recorded ex-Scientologists, including Roger Gonnet, the former head of Scientology's office in Lyon, as testifying that Scientology had abused the human rights of children by separating them from their parents, exposing them to interrogation techniques and forcing them to work long hours.[3]
[edit] Merge
I don't get this. There is
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IMO, one of them should be deleted and replaced with a redirection, preferable the shorter one, since the longer one is the actual name of this organisation. --Tilman 16:00, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
