Church Of Scientology Operating Unlicensed Kindergartens In Israel, Intentionally Misleading Authorities
Scientology abroad is operating as usual, under the radar and outside the laws of their host country. This time in Israel. According to an article in the YNet News, the Church of Scientology opened three schools, and only one was approved for by the Education Ministry, but failed to cite the school’s religious affiliations. Here’s more from the article:
Any kindergarten in Israel with more than 10 children requires the approval of the Education Ministry, but three kindergartens offering children the education teaching of the controversial Scientology movement are operating in Tel Aviv these days without the ministry being aware of their principles.
One of these kindergartens, in the Nahalat Yitzhak neighborhood has about 90 children. Although it received the Education Ministry’s approval, it failed to note its religious leanings.
While the Education Ministry has given temporary approval to the kindergarten until the end of the year, they will be reviewing the religious ideology which might be being promoted to the children at these schools. This was also addressed in the article:
“The pedagogical aspect will be examined this year and we will then make a final decision whether to grant it a permanent license for the coming years as well.
“As for the Scientology issue, the Education Ministry is unaware of such principles being taught in the kindergarten. The supervisor examined the kindergarten’s education contents and did not spot any Scientology content. The teacher also denied any involvement in the cult.”
The article outlines the Scientology aspect of how the religion views children and some of the method teachers use in communicating with children, “One of the issues characterizing education according to the Scientology ideas is teaching respect, human rights and friendship – expressed in addressing children at eye level. When a teacher speaks to one of his or her pupils, he or she will bend down in order to prevent significant height differences.”
That sounds innocuous enough, until you realize that Scientologists believe that all humans, regardless of their mental development are to be treated like adults. It is intrinsic to their faith that even children are simply thetans trapped inside a child’s body. The possible negative implications of this are innumerable.
Hopefully Israel, unlike the US, will view this with the same skeptical eye as Germany and outlaw Scientology-centric schools. It’s one thing for adults to willingly accept the misleading teachings of the Church, but it’s quite another to impose these ideologies onto children who are not mature enough to make informed decisions.
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when I see the words “children” and “scientology” in the same sentence it makes my blood run cold.
Comment by Ben — March 21, 2008 @ 1:17 pm
just so you’re aware, scientology is advertising on your site, dawn
Comment by anonymous — March 21, 2008 @ 1:57 pm
a Link with L Ron Hubbard talking.
Hubbard is marginalizing disabled people, unemployed people, people who need help. Basically LRon is dismissing everybody who doesn’t have a disposable income, and that’s like a third of the people in the world. he has no use for them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24tg1rLDZmE
saw this at xenu.net
Comment by Ben — March 21, 2008 @ 2:12 pm
Scientology hates gefelta fish and bagels! Seriously look it up!
Comment by On the Bridge — March 21, 2008 @ 2:23 pm
If Scientology is so great why to they have to LIE about what they do? Why does the teacher (clearly a SCILON) have to LIE about being a Scientologist? If the tech is so great why can’t they just tell the TRUTH???
Because inherently they are all liars.
Hope the government steps in and fixes that, the last thing the world needs is Scientology (aka Nazism) in Israel.
Comment by anonv2.0 — March 21, 2008 @ 2:44 pm
Scientology.org’s domain has been blocked, so they shouldn’t be showing up in the Adsense Ads anymore (alert me if they do).
I don’t control the adsense content, but clearly the Church is now spending some money to promote their new Video channel.
Sorry for the confusion.
Comment by D — March 21, 2008 @ 2:57 pm
Hey Dawn I’m lookin at your comment #6, and a Scientology Video channel add right now on the same page. (I do click it however just to make sure tehy get billed for the click. I bet they will claim everyone who links to their site is a church member!
Comment by On the Bridge — March 21, 2008 @ 3:21 pm
http://i30.tinypic.com/334rnzc.png <– still showing up
Comment by anonymous — March 21, 2008 @ 4:03 pm
Is it that important that there are Scientology ads on here? Let them waste their ad money – I’m willing to bet noone who reads Glosslip is ill-informed enough to actually fall for the Co$ scam.
Comment by Anonandon — March 21, 2008 @ 4:38 pm
ICK SCILON add still up.
Comment by anonv2.0 — March 21, 2008 @ 6:19 pm
This is a once-in-an-eleventy-two-trillion years opportunity to clear this planet of Scientology.
Comment by Rao — March 21, 2008 @ 7:37 pm
Should not be showing up, not showing up for me. Hmmm….well we blocked Scientology.org as a domain, so if it’s still showing up, then something’s wrong.
Comment by D — March 21, 2008 @ 9:18 pm
No suprise here: scientology can’t respect ANY law unless it fits to the writings (they call that scriptures!) of their founder, the criminally convicted felon Hubbard. See his 4 years jail in France:
http://www.antisectes.net/jugt78eng.htm
The best is that presently, the wwide executive of the cult is not even able to respect the “scriptures” of scientology inventor, the sci-fi guy Hubbard!
It has indeed modified 18 basic books from Hubbard as well (probably) as some tens of his lectures in june 2007. And most of what Miscavige does in his cult does not fit to the scientology cult that old timers like me have known before the Hubbard’s death.
Comment by roger gonnet — March 22, 2008 @ 8:19 am
Dawn, I am so glad you picked this news story up. Scientology’s infiltration into the school system of ANY country is alarming!
Israel’s battle with Scientology has been going on for years. (click on the news story linked to my signature for an example) In this article, the author states:
“Scientology is a cult that ensnares unsuspecting people through a kind of mind control that has been called ‘psychological terrorism.’ Although the cult promises that its adherents will vastly improve their ability to enjoy life, and improve their careers and personal relationships, the truth is that the person is brainwashed and loses the ability to think for himself. Once members are under the cult’s control, they are persuaded to donate large sums of money to the organization. Some of the cult’s victims, who found themselves unable to escape its greedy clutches, have put an end to their own lives.”
D, I really appreciate you being another link in the chain of communication that will eventually put an end to Scientology’s abuses. Keep up your excellent and wonderfully relevant work here!!!
BF
Comment by Benny's Friend — March 22, 2008 @ 12:48 pm
Interesting juxtaposition. Future Israeli terrorists brought up believing in Body Thetans and flying saucers. How bizarre.
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