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Violence Against Women and FORB: Cases from Taiwan and Argentina
The Tai Ji Men case confirms that women tend to suffer more when freedom of religion or belief is denied. There are similar cases in Argentina.
Tai Ji Men: Affirming the Core Value of Tolerance
An international webinar celebrated Tai Ji Men’s contribution to a world culture of tolerance, and asked tolerance for them in Taiwan.
Respect, Not Only Tolerance for Tai Ji Men
Tai Ji Men’s spiritual teachings may prove more effective than UN statements in securing peace. Provided one condition is observed.
Tai Ji Men: Affirming the Core Value of Tolerance
The path to tolerance has been slowly built through human history. More recently, Dr. Hong and Tai Ji Men decisively contributed to it.
Tolerant, Yet Not Tolerated: The Paradox of Tolerance and the Tai Ji Men Case
Sometimes, tolerance is appreciated as a value and idea, but when it comes to practice it, it becomes less appealing. Some religious movements learned this the hard way.
A “Tolerance Tax” for Tai Ji Men?
Jews in 18th-century Hungary were humiliated and compelled to pay a “tolerance tax” to avoid expulsion. Some bureaucrats treated Tai Ji Men in the same way.
Tai Ji Men: Taking California by Storm for Love and Peace
Two new Qigong Academies had their grand openings during a week of beautiful shows and events attended by VIPs from all over the world.
From California, the Land of the Free, a Call for Freedom for Tai Ji Men
An international seminar in San Jose offered a reflection on conscience, human rights, freedom, and the Tai Ji Men case.
Al-Hijrah: Migration, Success, and the Tai Ji Men Case
The historical path of Tai Ji Men dizi and the personal story of Dr. Hong remind Muslims of al-Hijrah, the migration of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ from Mecca to Medina.
Calling for a Solution of the Tai Ji Men Case
We join Tai Ji Men in respectfully asking the government of Taiwan, whose commitment to democracy in a region plagued by non-democratic regimes we appreciate and applaud, to return through a political act the confiscated sacred land to Tai Ji Men and publicly confirm that, as Taiwan’s Supreme Court stated, they never violated the law nor evaded taxes.
It would be a small step for Taiwan’s government, but a crucial one to tell the world Taiwan is truly committed to freedom of religion or belief and to the protection of religious and spiritual minorities that were once persecuted by its authoritarian and post-authoritarian regimes.
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“The Tai Ji Men Case” web site is a project by Action Alliance to Redress 1219 whose aim is to collect and put at the readers’ easy disposal articles, documents, and videos—from academic studies to magazine articles—about the case of Tai Ji Men, a mempai (similar to a school) of qigong, martial arts, and self-cultivation headquartered in Taiwan, which has been victim of discrimination and persecution in its home country since 1996, and whose street protests have generated widespread international protests. Here you can find an exhaustive chronology of the case.
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