From: ronsmuerto@hotmail.com
Subject: Protest against Scientology Schools in Denmark
Date: 1998/05/20
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X-Article-Creation-Date: Wed May 20 20:49:04 1998 GMT
Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology



From:
     http://www.kn-online.de/htm/aktuell/sh/c-scientology.htm

     Protest against Scientology Schools in Denmark

     State administration and CDU criticize concession

     "Kieler Nachrichten"
     May 16, 1998

     Kiel (epd). The admission of two Scientology schools in Danish
     Nordschleswig has met with harsh criticism. The state
     administrations's sect commissioner, Hans-Peter Bartels, called the
     decision of the Danish Ministry of Educaion "annoying." The state
     administration has no influence with them, Bartels told the epd.

     The CDU state faction alse expressed criticism: the vote of the
     administration in Copenhagen is not reversible, said political
     representative Ursula Roper. For six years, 50 children have been
     receiving their education in Bjerndrup, near the German-Danish
     border. Most of them are children of Scientologists from Hamburg,
     who bring them there to be trained in the teachings of sect leader L.
     Ron Hubbard. Similar school projects have been forestalled on the
     German side in Seedorf and Hoisdorf..

     A year ago the Hamburg school authorities tried levying fines to
     obtain the return of children who were supposed to be going to
     school in Hamburg. On that occasion, several more children
     registered a changed of address to other schools in Denmark. The
     children will grow up in a "pure Scientology colony," stated Bartels.
     Because of their membership in Scientology and their German
     citizenship, they are fully isolated in Denmark. The community has
     tried, without success, to impede the work of the schools. They
     were very surprized by the decision of the state administration. The
     sect is counter to the constitution and extremist. Bartels said,
     "Whoever wants to help the people who have fallen into the sect
     machine of Scientology may can not admit testimony which has
     been furnished by the sect itself."

     Roper, the CDU politician, states that those kind of schools are
     forbidden in Germany. It would be especially bad if the schools
     openly pursue the goal of luring Germany children into the clutches
     of Scientology in Denmark. In the northernmost German states,
     Scientology has several hundred members. In Schleswig-Holstein,
     Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommer and northern Lower Saxony,
     there is an estimated 3,500 members total.

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