Centre Against Mental Manipulation
The Centre against mind control (MMCC), or Center-Roger Ikor is a combination French secular fight against sects.
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History
The association was founded by writer Roger Ikor , Prix Goncourt 1955 , whose son, a follower of Zen macrobiotic , had committed suicide.
It was chaired from 1997 to 1998 by the member Socialist Alain Vivien. Before resigning to become president of the Interministerial Mission for the Fight against Sects (MILS), he hired his wife as Executive Director , which posed problems within the association. Members and leaders resigned as the president, JP Bousquet, eventually bring the case to court. The CSCM was then placed under judicial supervision, from June to October 2001, the time to elect a new president.
Daniel Groscolas takes the presidency and is replaced by Jacques Miquel which is the current president in 2008 .
The French State and MMCC
The association is supported by grants from several departments .
Reviews
Collusion with the MILS
The period where Patricia Vivien played an important role in BTMM, while MILS was chaired by Alain Vivien was heavily criticized , not only for problems within the association but also for possible collusion between the association inteministerielle and mission.
The establishment of the list of sects
The association, through its information on cults, published in 1998 a dictionary of sects which has been criticized on the principle as to the content.
On the one hand it is alleged that an association of individuals to develop lists that are then taken as official by the state.
On the other hand, Archbishop Jean Vernette , national secretary of the French episcopate to the study of cults and himself a member of CSCM since its inception, stressed the ambiguity of certain reservations: "In tiny print it is stated on page 28 that certain religious beliefs and philosophies have been mentioned because, "even non-sectarian in themselves, they are essential to the understanding of sectarian drift that arises from them." (...) But no one will read these tiny notation ambiguous. The Dictionary will be received by everyone as it is defined: a comprehensive dictionary, strictly and officially informed, "sects" in France "
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References
- Why battle anti-cult failed? VSD , 22 to 28 August 2002 by Thomas Hogger.
- a and b Sects - The bullies tear Standing Item on 19/10/2001 CCMM
- A new President for what? on the site of MMCC
- "The presence of associations is very useful, whether departmental associations for defense of the family and the individual (ADFI), family associations such as the departmental union of family associations (UDAF), or documentation center, education and action against mind control (MMCC). "(Report 2003 MIVILUDES , p. 40 of http://www.miviludes.com/IMG/pdf/Rapport_MIVILUDES_2003-5.pdf )
- The Catholic Church and the sects Jean Vernette , published in the SNOP, No. 1086 of January 15, 2001.
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