I don't know if this article has been completely translated yet, but I took the liberty of doing so. The grammar may seem a little weird at places, but it did in the original version as well.
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Hackers declare war on Scientology
By Andreas Thors
On Youtube "Anonymous" declares war on the Scientology movement's existence on the Internet.
Picture note: "There's a mental war going on", Gullevi Almgren from the Church of Scientology in Stockholm says.
With a distorted voice, Anonymous tells with dramatic music that they are going to exterminate Scientology from the Internet. The video, which has been on Youtube for a week, has already become a viewer success. More than 1,2 million people have seen the group accuse the Scientologists of the world of spreading videos of propaganda and abuse belief for their own gain.
But what made the hacker group "declare war" on the Scientologists was when an interview with movie star Tom Cruise, the world's maybe most famous Scientologist, was taken down from Youtube after pressure from the Scientology movement.
"They have thrown threats of suing regarding copyright law to the left and to the right when they've gotten the chance. Everything to silence the truth about their destructive religion, that they are malicious and do not care for anything but money", Anonymous writes on Piratbyrån's website, which could mean that there are Swedes in the group.
Several large sites with connections to Scientology have been attacked by Anonymous. For example, the site religiousfreedomwatch.org was made unreachable with a so-called DDoS-attack (distributed denal-of-service-attack).
At the Chirch of Scientology in Stockholm, Anonymous initiative is taken seriously. The spokesperson of the church, Gullevi Almgren, does not think the hackers are using fair methods.
- They do not communicate openly and are trying to discredit us with a very criminal behaviour, she says to PC för Alla.
She does not view the Scientology movement's attempts to stop the Tom Cruise interview as something strange. And definately not as a trespass on freedom of speech.
- It is a copyrighted movie made for internal use. Why shouldn't we be allowed to take it down?
Gullevi Almgren says that the event still does not come as a surprise to the movement, and that several people are working with the security on the websites of the movement.
- We know what evil powers are acting, and are occupying themselves with weapon and drug smuggling.
The hackers?
- Not them personally, but they collaborate with people in their surroundings who work with that. There's a mental war going on, and the psychiatry is responsible, she says.
