Belgium: Jehovah's Witnesses in court to respond to incitement to hatred
by yalbmert99 24 Replies latest watchtower scandals
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DesirousOfChange
It's a shame the Cult's leaders are having to deal with so many legal issues. Evidently™ all of these worldly governments do not realize that WTS/GB are above the law (of mere humans).
Let's review: "It's a Cult!
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Disillusioned JW
Figuratively speaking: WT/JW leaders in Belgium are being brought before the 'Judicial Committee' of the superior authorities. The WT/JW leaders should show a repentant attitude and act in subjection to the superior authorities if they don't want to suffer severe penalty. See Romans 10:1 - 7 (NWT). Hee hee.
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fulano
It’s 96.000
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Vidiot
Appealing to a human rights court to defend their human rights to...
...deny current and former members their human rights...?
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yalbmert99
Yea a contradiction!
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Diogenesister
I love that the Belgian Exjw's only requested one dollar each in compensation.
They didn't want watchtower to claim, as they often do in CSA cases, that they were just fishing for money.
What interests me is their next step. Will they be foolish enough to appeal? Because if this goes all the way to the ECHR, and plaintiffs win, the rest of the world is going to really sit up and listen.
I think one of the worst things for watchtower recently has been Islamic extremism. Governments can't be seen to play favourites...if they're taking muslim faith schools to court for promoting hate towards certain groups, they can't let Watchtower away with it, now, can they?
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BluesBrother
They certainly have a case with the claims of incitement to discriminate and to shun . The article mentions incitement to hatred and violence which has never happened in my experience.
Tne Witnesses still view this as an act of love , bizarrely, tough love to try and bring the individual back to them and therefore on the road to salvation. Often enough it may work in the cases of unmarried sex, or smoking , but it can never work with cases of “ apostasy “ because once your eyes are opened there is no going back.
