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Cultic mentality Sectarian groups usually centered around a charismatic but despotic leader (Jim Jones, David Koresch, Joseph Smith, Warren Jeffs, etc), who see that its flock strives against the world (Us vs Them), isolated by the belief that only they hold the truth. --Not all the brainwashed followers of Asahara committed terrorism. But all of them were ready to do whatever their guru told them. (...) They all posed a potential danger to society. The same applies to Muslims (Ali Sina). In its most spectacular expansions, the cultic mentality brought Fascism (Mussolini, Franco, Hitler), Communism (Lenin, Stalin) and most evidently Islam |