site by author or ron hubbard some countries have made moves to ban it altogether and russia some scientology literature has now been ruled illegal a russian court found eight books from l. ron hubbard extremist and anti-social the judge d.m. them either legal for inciting hatred and promoting the supremacy of its members and the fight against the rest of society now in the us where scientology is considered a religion it has an escape being a source of contention either earlier i spoke with mark bunker he is an emmy award winning journalist he's working on a film about scientology and in it many alleged abuses from physical abuse to having to choose between your family members to harassment of anybody that criticizes the church and i asked him given his research and the debate and the accusations made in his film whether scientology is a cult or religion who does that. well culture is a strong word and you know i i tend to think of scientology as a religious themed business and it seems to me that since its formation it has been selling expensive courses teaching you how to be better in your life how to communicate better how to have better relationships with your fami

l. ron hubbard the other half of the day until you are back in good graces of management and this can take months or years before management feels that you are readability it during that time people are separated from their families and you know if the husband is in the r.p.s. the wife won't even be able to talk to that person usually i was getting as i want to get in your car for almost at a time i just laugh you're going to meet a lot of practices that people would think are wrong but there are also some practices and widely accepted religions that people also think are bizarre and abusive. some would consider circumcision in the jewish religion to be gentle mutilation some believe they can union eating a symbolic body of jesus is weird so what makes some ok and others wrong and you think there's any kind of universal gauge or is that relative i know it's kind of a long question and i guess response to what you think is the most pertinent they are started at a time i really don't understand i think the important thing is for the same college you do since and not everybody concerned colle

l. ron hubbard writings hollywood movie stars may live by extremist and anti-social those are some of the stories on tap next week you want to want to miss them thanks so much for tuning in and have a great weekend. rachel martin here broadcasting live from washington d.c. coming up today on the big picture. wealthy british. markets finally. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's concert for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into the report on r t. c. welcome across all time peter lavelle quagmire and standoff in libya is there a military salute. into the conflict in libya and a stable democratic and whole libya be created through the use of force to museum change and is there still a realistic possibility of a political solution. to. the ongoing conflict in libya i'm joined by jim brann in london he's the spokesperson for the stop the war coalition also in london we have and it's al gore marty he's a libyan political analyst and in los angeles we cross to omar torrijos he is a political analyst and a founding member of the libyan hu

. >>> the court ruled that books by l ron hubbard calls for extremist activities. the book will be put on the list of extremist materials banned in rsh sha. scientology said they will protest. >>> a fake photo is causing controversy in china. it shows leaders appearing to float felt you look at the feet. you'll see the doctored photo. now the man in the -- men in the photo are apologizing. they said none of the orange photos gave justice to the scene. >>> homeland security secretary janet napolitano is urging nations to come together against cyber attacks. this is in response to computer hackings. the large international monetary fund was one of the victims. she wants nations to come up with an international framework to fight that problem. this time next friday the crew of the space shuttle is expected to be in the final hour of the last shuttle mismghts the you for the space shuttle atlantis is made up of four space fer you go -- veterans. >>> a local couple on the amtrak train that was hit by a semi truck said they will not be taking a train soon. able and sara