A:  Jehovah's Witnesses have been opposed, like the first century Christians, because they do not participate in politics or warfare.

      Like early Christians, persons who are misinformed, or like in the case of Jesus, religious leaders developed animosity to the reforms that Jesus initiated and expressed jealousy against 

      those who were following Jesus, there are many websites who similarly resort to name-calling, half-truths and propaganda campaigns against Jehovah's Witnesses, and misrepresent their

      ideas, or take them out  of context. There are other websites which resort to outright lies about Jehovah's Witnesses.

 

      To illustrate another reason why Jehovah's Witnesses are opposed, in teaching Science in a middle school in one of the rougher areas of Newark, NJ, the school principal was one of the best principals I had ever worked for. He dealt with both the teachers and the students respectfully and professionally. He had weekly programs for the students and field trips to aquariums, outdoor bound type of field trips for these children, some of whom had never been out of the city, and he, along with the acting vice-principal, had well-developed hands-on activities weekly for the children and youth, which made education on some dry subjects come alive. I'd never been in such an excellent middle school. He also had a discipline policy which was of much help for teachers in keeping things under control. Students who were very misbehaved or defiant, who cut class or some other serious infraction received "lunch detention," where they would spend about 20 minutes normally reserved for play in the playground, indoors, doing school work. It wasn't oppressive, it was just a form of discipline which did a lot to keep order in the school, which was necessary.

 

     One parent took exception to this policy and started a campaign against the principal and against the Newark school system, with a list of demands, stating that the principal was mean-spirited towards the children, and arbitrary, that parent's would need to be first informed before any child received lunch detention, and giving the impression that the principal was about the worst out there, which was the farthest from the case. Rather than look at himself to see how he might better help his child to behave better in school, he took to "attacking" the school and school system, which accomplished very little.

 

     It is similar with  many who "attack" Jehovah's Witnesses on the Internet and other ways. Some have been disciplined by the congregation for un-Christian conduct such as sexual immorality or some other practice which the Bible condemns, which is administered in a loving and patient manner, rather than capriciously or arbitrary. Some, rather than humbly try to make adjustments, attack Jehovah's Witnesses on the Internet, which similarly accomplishes little.

 

    Another former teacher started a smear campaign against Newark schools with negative advertising on the "failure" of the school system, with billboards and ads on buses, etc. Newark school system is definitely not perfect, but surprisingly, it is pretty good, for the neighborhoods in which the  schools cover, most of the administration and teachers, principals, are pretty dedicated and try hard to help students, which sometimes might be slow to respond. Not every teacher is the best, but the majority are very good and very dedicated as are most of the principals. The negative advertising misrepresented the actual situation. It is similar with many of the sites on the Internet which one administrator of the board who classifies  websites for a major parental internet control software company described as "borderline" "hate sites," that is, in they way that Jews are sometimes subject to unwarranted hatred, Jehovah's Witnesses, who also suffered with Jews in the concentration camps, are sometimes needlessly subjected to animosity and hatred through negative Internet campaigns and propaganda.