IICSA: survivors speak of influence of religion

[Srecko Sostar]

2 minutes ago, xero said:

There's no shortage of mentally ill people among JW's that's for sure. Shows what a tolerant and welcoming lot they are.

And now everyone who is not mentally handicapped should understand the context and reasons for this statement?

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[Srecko Sostar]

Jehovah’s Witnesses given €12,000 fine for incitement to hatred against ex-members

Tuesday, 16 March 2021

 

The Jehovah’s Witnesses in Belgium must pay a €12,000 fine for the systematic and “disturbing” exclusion of ex-members who have left the organisation, the Ghent correctional court ruled on Tuesday.

The court ruled that the non-profit association behind Jehovah’s Witnesses is guilty of inciting discrimination and hatred or violence against former members, reports the Belga news agency.

“The Jehovah’s Witnesses’ shunning policy cuts to the very core of relationships, and the victims suffer both physical and psychological consequences,” one of the lawyers of the civil parties said during the trial last month.

In 2015, an ex-member took the organisation to the Ghent public prosecutor’s office for slander and defamation, insults and violation of the discrimination law.

He claimed that once the members had left the group, they were disowned and completely isolated socially, by order of the organisation.

The Ghent public prosecutor’s office summoned the Jehovah’s Witnesses for four charges: incitement to discrimination on the basis of religious belief against a person, and against a group, as well as incitement to hatred or violence against a person, and against a group.

Belgium’s Interfederal Equal Opportunities Centre Unia and some fifteen individuals had taken up civil action, with the victims’ lawyers emphasizing the far-reaching consequences of the “shunning policy,” reports De Morgen.

“Jehovah’s Witnesses state that ex-members should be shunned like the plague,” said lawyer Pieter-Bram Lagae, who assists the ex-witness who started the case.

“He used to sit on the Jehovah’s Judicial Committee and help decide on exclusions, until he realized it was going too far,” Lagae said. “We act, for example, for a man whose wife is still a member, and he is ignored in his own home. Or a woman who has never seen her father since the exclusion.”

“This is just the start,” former Jehovah’s Witnesses member Patrick Haeck told Het Nieuwsblad. “We are going to the European Court. This has to stop everywhere.”

Maïthé Chini
The Brussels Times

https://www.brusselstimes.com/news/belgium-all-news/160238/jehovahs-witnesses-given-e12000-fine-for-incitement-to-hatred-against-ex-members-ghent-correctional-court-unia-shunning-policy/

[xero]

20 minutes ago, 4Jah2me said:

They have to be, they NEED the money.  It's only your GB that say that the anointed are mentally ill. 

Most of the people I've seen who professed to be were on the "needs his meds" side of things.

[Patiently waiting for Truth]

4 minutes ago, xero said:

Most of the people I've seen who professed to be were on the "needs his meds" side of things.

That's because you are an Elder working for the GB, so you wouldn't know a True Anointed person if you met them. 

[xero]

1 hour ago, 4Jah2me said:

That's because you are an Elder working for the GB, so you wouldn't know a True Anointed person if you met them. 

That's what all the crazy people say. "You're just jealous that the voices don't talk to you!"

[Patiently waiting for Truth]

1 hour ago, xero said:

That's what all the crazy people say. "You're just jealous that the voices don't talk to you!"

With those words you condemn yourself 

[TrueTomHarley]

4 hours ago, 4Jah2me said:

The Librarian obviously knew this so it seems that JB was removed WITHOUT WARNING, just to please BTK.

The Librarian (that old hen) is in BTK’s pocket, that’s for sure.

[xero]

2 hours ago, 4Jah2me said:

With those words you condemn yourself 

2  Therefore you are inexcusable, O man, whoever you are,+ if you judge; for when you judge another, you condemn yourself, because you who judge practice the same things. - Ro. 2:2

[Anna]

11 hours ago, 4Jah2me said:

All JB meant was that God is capable of doing anything God wishes to do. 

That's so funny that you are telling us what JB meant. It's almost like you know him 😜

[Patiently waiting for Truth]

14 hours ago, xero said:

2  Therefore you are inexcusable, O man, whoever you are,+ if you judge; for when you judge another, you condemn yourself, because you who judge practice the same things. - Ro. 2:2

And you o Xero have been judging ex-JWs since you joined here, or since you have been using this AKA. 

[Patiently waiting for Truth]

9 hours ago, Anna said:

That's so funny that you are telling us what JB meant. It's almost like you know him 😜

We are quite close spiritually  

[TrueTomHarley]

10 hours ago, César Chávez said:

Just like XERO is in yours!!

There are so many AKA’s here, how do you know I am not him?