Certain controversial positions of these antisect associations as well as of the two successive missions of the government, the MILS (Interministerial mission of fight against sects) from 1998 to 2002 then the MIVILUDES (Interministerial mission of vigilance and fight against sectarian aberrations), starting of 2002, later sparked the creation of other associations and various initiatives whose purpose is to denounce what they deem to be the excesses of the anti-sectarian struggle in France and to defend new religious movements.