TOKYO – The Unification Church has published a protest against Japanese public broadcaster NHK, demanding that it stop airing and apologize for a program dealing with the religious group’s recruitment methods.
Background context: the Unification Church (popularly called “Moonies”) are the group which Abe Shinzo was assasinated for being associated with. The incident led to what could be described as a public “outing” of the Unification Church and its ties to the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) – you read that correctly; public opinion turned against the assasinated former PM and remains firmly with the assassin.
Anti Unification Church sentiment has continued to grow to the point where their status as a tax-exempt religious organization is being challenged and the NHK is airing exposés. I’d say that the situation is comparable to the American anti-Scientology backlash, except on a bigger political scale and under a more compressed timeline.
Quite possibly the most effective political assassination of all time. The doohickey stays winning.
As a general rule if a “religion” is against something, that alone should be a reason to do it.
