OFFICIAL UZBEKISTAN VIDEO DECRIES ‘ILLEGAL MISSIONARY ACTIVITY’
Posted by wagardner - 24/05/08 at 03:05:50 amSource: Forum 18 News Service
The Central Asian nation of Uzbekistan continues to use state-run mass media to incite intolerance of religious minorities and freedom of thought, conscience and belief. In the latest national television coverage, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Seventh-day Adventists, Presbyterians and Methodists were all described as conducting unspecified “illegal missionary activities.” This was described as “a global problem along with religious dogmatism, fundamentalism, terrorism and drug addiction.” Video footage showed scenes of police raids on worship services. Police had claimed that the film “was necessary for further investigation.” A member of a religious minority stating that some people are now “afraid to go out on the street where they live for fear of being persecuted.” However, sources said that “people who understand a little bit what’s going on in the country sympathize with us.”
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