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Germany: Scientology a security threat?

Title: Germany: Scientology a security threat?
Date: Wednesday, 8 August 2007
Publisher: UPI
Main source: upi.com

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HAMBURG, Germany, Aug. 8 (UPI) — The interior minister of Hamburg, Germany, sees Scientology as a threat to his state's security. Scientology is not a religious community but an "extremist grouping" that needs to be banned, said Udo Nagel, the interior minister of the northern German state of Hamburg. According to Nagel, Germany’s Interior Ministry in Berlin is currently probing whether a ban of Scientology would hold up in court. Observers and virtually all political parties in Germany see Scientology as ... [Read the rest at upi.com]