Why do the Communists hate Falun Gong?
Fogarty said that people immediately want to know why the Chinese government would feel so threatened by a practice such as Falun Gong, which is directed toward an individual pursuit of three principles -truthfulness, compassion and tolerance. He said the government is threatened by the rapid influx of individuals adopting the Falun Gong practice. In the 1990s, the ancient practice was introduced to China by Li Hongzhi, who wrote the book, Zhuan Falun. […]a large number of people across the world immediately saw merit in the exercises and began practicing Falun Gong. “By 1999 (when, according to Reuters, Falun Gong was banned in China), they had 100 million practitioners, which was double the number of communist party members,” Fogarty said. “They perceived it as a threat and persecuted it.” Fogarty discovered Falun Gong about four years ago, having downloaded [Mr. Li] Hongzhi’s book and some videos. Initially, he said, he just began doing the exercises for an hour or two a day, as a
