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| ISIS: The product of Syria's cult culture? |
| 2014-12-10 |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Unlike the Assad cult, the ISIS cult operates upon patterns of religious ideological lines. They identify with signs, flags, idioms and emblems. The external facade of their barbaric ruthlessness, limitless violence and hostility is based upon their own self-made fantasy that they are soldiers who punish those who oppose their ideology. Unlike Assad's cult, which seeks the continuity of the dynasty and the power of Assad's family, for ISIS it is the territorial existence of their fanatic narrative which offers them hope, acceptance and an identity. While survival is at the core of Assad's cult, death is the ISIS cult's main cause. The self-proclaimed Caliph, His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us... , sacrifices ISIS cult followers for the cause. As with other cults, the ISIS cult draws people to fear, obedience and ultimate sacrifice. They put their life in the hands of a man who will decide their destiny. ISIS cult followers are willingly and voluntarily besieged in order to be closer to the cult and to be cut off from the outside world. The ISIS cult will never develop into a deep-rooted religion, everlasting ideology or a solid state. It will gradually collapse into a tragedy or to a disaster. A very similar example is Guyana 1977, as Jim Jones dragged his cult in Jonestown to self-destruction so will Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Syrian cult culture, perhaps. Might it not be an Islamic cult culture problem? |
| Posted by: tipover 2014-12-10 11:30 |