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Discriminating Against Evil: Zero Discrimination and the Tai Ji Men Case
Practicing “Zero Discrimination” towards all, rivals and persecutors included, is what Tai Ji Men teaches and does.
Zero Discrimination Against Tai Ji Men
On Zero Discrimination Day, scholars, human rights activists, and Tai Ji Men dizi discussed discrimination problems in Taiwan and internationally.
A Tale of Two COVIDs: Zero Discrimination, Religious Liberty, and Tai Ji Men
Other groups have been more successful than religious liberty advocates in fighting discrimination. This should change.
The Tai Ji Men Case: What Social Justice Is—And Isn’t
The injustice happening in Taiwan is an example of how ideology and personal interests of rogue bureaucrats corrupt the concept of social justice.
Tai Ji Men: From the “White Terror” to the Terror of Persecution
After the Martial Law was lifted, not all the problems of democracy were solved in Taiwan, as the Tai Ji Men case demonstrates.
The Great Bengal Famine of 1770: When Taxes Created a Genocide
The sudden rise of land revenue taxes, together with drought, caused what some now call a genocide, which killed from one to ten million Bengalis and Biharis.
There Can Be No Social Justice Without Tax Justice: The Tai Ji Men Case
Scholars and human rights activists discussed tax reform and the injustice vested on Tai Ji Men on World Day of Social Justice
“Paideia” and Tai Ji Men
Human rights activists should be educated to the ideal of civilization that the Greek concept of “paideia” conveyed. It will also help them to understand the Tai Ji Men case.
Taxes as a Weapon of Mass Persecution: The Tai Ji Men Case
An article on a large-circulation Italian daily newspaper explains that all that glitters is not gold in Taiwan.
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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