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Tai Ji Men: The Only Possible Peace is Just Peace
In international politics and agitated societies, compromise and appeasement feed more conflict, deepening injustice.
No Peace Without Justice: Ibn Khaldun’s Lesson Applied to the Tai Ji Men Case
As Ibn Khaldun reminds us, injustice ruins civilization — but by restoring justice, we open the path to genuine peace for all.
The Tai Ji Men Case: Justice is a Bullwark Against Violence
If Taiwan’s authorities cannot ensure justice for a peaceful group like Tai Ji Men, less peaceful groups might resort to violence.
Tai Ji Men and the Importance of Trust and Justice to Achieve Real Peace
Peace studies emphasize the importance of conscience, which Tai Ji Men dizi systematically promote, and justice, which they are denied.
Habermas and Tai Ji Men: Peace as a Consequence of Justice
The German philosopher argues that justice produces peace rather than vice versa. This lesson is relevant for Taiwan and the Tai Ji Men case.
Roses Blooming in the Bitter Winter: An Emic View of Tai Ji Men and Its Tax-Legal Case
A personal testimony of how an ancient teaching can change lives—and empower disciples to resist decades of injustice.
The Crisis of Religious Freedom in Post-Authoritarian Taiwan: A Personal Testimony
The Sword Dance and the Phoenix Dance represent a struggle for justice and peace that strongly resonates with Tai Ji Men’s experience of persecution.
More than a Tax Issue: The Tai Ji Men Case in Taiwan
A summary and legal analysis of a case that will not be resolved unless it is finally understood that it concerns freedom of religion or belief, not just taxes.
Western Scholars, Religious Liberty in Taiwan, and the Tai Ji Men Case
Scholars have produced more than 600 texts about the issue in a few years. It is a unique phenomenon that deserves to be studied.
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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