Comments:Senior security official: "Hardly any chance" to ban German Church of Scientology

This article creates a completely false impression of the political debate in Germany concerning Scientology. In fact Ehrhart Körting's suggestion at the annual meeting of the state Interior Ministers to look into the posssiblity of banning the Scientology organisation was well recieved and endorsed by all the Ministers of the Interiour of the German states, who represent a variety of political parties. All four major political parties in Germany deny memebership to scientologists. Claiming that: speakers of all other Federal Parliament parties,[...]stated that it would not be a governmental task to ban a group like the Church of Scientology. must be false, since all German politicians know that the the German constitution allows, and even requires the state to ban any organisation that threatens the constitutional order and democratic principles. (Article GG 9.) No speaker of any mainstream political party would ever claim that banning a group like Scientology is not a governmental task. The current debate in Germany is about wether there is enough concrete evidence at the moment to justify a Scientology ban in court. In prinicple all mainstream political parties support a ban. Mr. Ulrich Battis can also not have said that: a religious community like Scientology is almost impossible to ban., and if so, he is wrong, since: 1. Scientology has repeatedly been denied the status of 'religious community' in Germany. 2. Even if Scientology were recognised as a religion, recent legal reforms due to the 'war on terror' have removed hurdels making it hard to ban religious organisations, allowing them to be treated like any other organisation under Article GG 9. of the constitution. I do not believe that Mr. Battis is so ill informed, this must be a deliberate missquote, or the quote was taken out of context.