Falun Gong NEITHER Religion NOR Qigong: Human Rights Specialist (02/04/2001)
2004-03-09 11:53
Chinese human rights specialist Yu Pinhua said
Falun Gong
practitioners are in fact deprived of the fundamental rights to
live, develop and think freely by Falun Gong and its fallacies.
Yu, a member of China Human Rights Society and also a research
fellow with Jiangxi Provincial Academy of Social Sciences, said the
televised suicidal act by seven Falun Gong practitioners from
central China's Henan Province, who set themselves on fire, further
exposes a fact that Falun Gong is a cult, not a religion, nor the
health-enhancing Qigong because Falun Gong followers, with their
minds controlled by fallacies of Falun Gong, usually can not have
the thinking abilities and the sense of normal people.
While comparing the features of religions with the destructive
nature of cults in the world, the fallacies of Falun Gong not
encouraging people with illnesses to see doctors or take medicine
and that Qigong with the sole purpose to improve health, Yu defended
Chinese government's decision to outlaw the cult in July 1999.
"Outlawing the cult Falun Gong is intended to protect the
fundamental human rights of the general public including those who
are following the Falun Gong," said the research fellow, who also
lashed out at western countries for having a double standard on the
issue of human rights and the treatment of cults.
practitioners are in fact deprived of the fundamental rights to
live, develop and think freely by Falun Gong and its fallacies.
Yu, a member of China Human Rights Society and also a research
fellow with Jiangxi Provincial Academy of Social Sciences, said the
televised suicidal act by seven Falun Gong practitioners from
central China's Henan Province, who set themselves on fire, further
exposes a fact that Falun Gong is a cult, not a religion, nor the
health-enhancing Qigong because Falun Gong followers, with their
minds controlled by fallacies of Falun Gong, usually can not have
the thinking abilities and the sense of normal people.
While comparing the features of religions with the destructive
nature of cults in the world, the fallacies of Falun Gong not
encouraging people with illnesses to see doctors or take medicine
and that Qigong with the sole purpose to improve health, Yu defended
Chinese government's decision to outlaw the cult in July 1999.
"Outlawing the cult Falun Gong is intended to protect the
fundamental human rights of the general public including those who
are following the Falun Gong," said the research fellow, who also
lashed out at western countries for having a double standard on the
issue of human rights and the treatment of cults.