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...POLL Is Falun Gong...
...FEEDBACK We invited TIMEasia.com readers to respond to our Falun Gong coverage from the July 2 edition of TIME. Here are their edited responses...
Your Comment: --> The number of Americans who have traded yoga, or perhaps idle mornings, for Falun Gong can't be accurately guessed?there is no central office, no dues?but a sampling in the nation's capital suggests they are truly into it (most have read and reread Li's writings) and that Falun Gong's appeal has spread far beyond the Chinatowns and university campuses where it first took off in the U.S. "It is very powerful," says Dr. Gary Feuerberg, a government statistician in Washington, who has been practicing Falun Gong since 1998. It was so powerful...
...What about politics? This is Washington after all. Each day, Falun Gong followers?mostly ethnic Chinese?can be found protesting across from the Beijing government's embassy. "Before the crackdown (in China)," says Feuerberg, "no one spoke about politics. There was no agenda. Yet those suffering in China are like 1st century Christian martyrs. We must stand by them." It's a lot easier to do so in America...
...much is known about Li Hongzhi, 48, the man who created Falun Gong in 1992. He worked as a grain clerk in northeast China's Liaoning province. He played trumpet in a troupe run by the forestry police in neighboring Jilin. And then he wrote a very odd book that affected millions...