And in a report prepared for a meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in March 1999, the IHF cogently remarked on the discrepancy between many OSCE member nations’ commitments to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and reality.

	American actress and Scientologist Anne Archer addressed a plenary session of the OSCE conference in Warsaw on continuing intolerance against minority religions exhibited by factions of the German government. U.S. and European Union delegations to the conference censured the alarming trend of religious discrimination in several European nations.

“In practice,” the IHF notes, “a high proportion of OSCE governments have either clearly violated this declaration, or contributed to increasing religious intolerance. Numerous states—East and West—have adopted restrictive domestic laws on religious associations ... or taken other steps to restrict the spread of ’new religions’....”

The rise of state-sanctioned religious intolerance signals the advance of extremist and radical political factions—a larger threat to democratic progress in Europe.

Disarming the Intolerant continued...

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