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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.
Francis of Assisi, Fraternity, and Tai Ji Men
One of the origins of the International Day of Human Fraternity is the Italian mystic’s visit to Sultan al-Kamil in 1219. Its message is valid for the Tai Ji Men case, too.
Tai Ji Men Dizi: Children of a Lesser Father?
We will never achieve true justice until we allow ideology and dishonesty to corrupt the authentic experience of human fraternity.
Tai Ji Men: No Fraternity Without Justice. An Islamic Perspective
Bust of Ibn Khaldūn at the entrance of the Kasbah of Bejaia, Algeria. Credits.
Education By and About Tai Ji Men
Tai Ji Men plays a crucial role in educating the world to peace, love, and conscience. It is time to educate the world about the injustice vested on it.
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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