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Movies // Mission: Stop Scientology

Title: Movies // Mission: Stop Scientology
Date: Friday, 9 August 1996
Publisher: Los Angeles Times (California)
Main source: articles.latimes.com
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[...] Mission: Stop Scientology: Germans youths picketed cinemas throughout their country on Thursday to protest Tom Cruise's movie "Mission: Impossible" because the American actor is a member of the Scientology religion. The protests–organized by the normally placid youth wing of Helmut Kohl's Christian Democratic Union–are a token of the growing political pressure against Scientology in Germany, where recruiting has been active. The pickets came after Paul Stefan Mauz, a Christian Democrat member of parliament, claimed that Cruise was a "high-ranking" Scientologist ... [Read the rest at articles.latimes.com]