二十一年前，也就是 2000 年，我發表了一篇關於“西歐的道德恐慌和反邪教恐怖主義”的文章。標題是挑釁，我知道會有反應，更是如此，因為這篇文章發表在最權威的恐怖主義學術期刊上，叫做恐怖主義和政治暴力. 我們正處於所謂的“邪教戰爭”之中，一方面，一些政府，特別是法國，正在打擊被貼上“邪教”標籤的團體，與支持這些措施的人之間發生了一場非常激烈的爭論，另一方面，新宗教運動的學者批評他們，聲稱好的“宗教”和壞的“邪教”之間的區別沒有意義。反對者只是將他們不喜歡的任何團體稱為“邪教”。
Twenty-one years ago, in the year 2000, I published an article on “Moral Panics and Anti-Cult Terrorism in Western Europe.” The title was a provocation, and I knew there would be reactions, the more so because the article was published in the most authoritative scholarly journal on terrorism, called Terrorism and Political Violence. We were in the middle of the so-called “cult wars,” a very strong controversy between, on one side, some governments, particularly France, that were cracking down on groups labeled as “cults,” and those who supported these measures, and on the other side scholars of new religious movements who criticized them, and claimed that the distinction between good “religions” and bad “cults” did not make sense. Opponents were simply calling a “cult” any group they did not like.
Targeting Tai Ji Men: Why It Is “Violence Based on Belief”
針對太極門：為什麼是“基於信仰的暴力”
https://bitterwinter.org/targeting-tai-ji-men-why-it-is-violence-based-on-belief/
