A Global Threat Religious Cults Sand Terrorist Organizations — Kürşad Kağan Ergün

A Global Threat Religious Cults and Terrorist Organizations Kürşad Kağan ERGÜN In this book the main aim is to understand the potential dangers caused by cult like religious groups that can be described as religious sects that shows similar features as of cults as a result of certain structural features namely their organizational structures secrecy and absolute obedience to a leader which make them ideally suited for terrorism These three features are essential elements for an efficient terrorist organization When cult like religious groups transform into terrorist organizations for various and unexpected reasons they become serious problems for state security Most often however law enforcement agencies discover and destroy terrorist organizations during their foundation periods when they are stil lacking in terms of organizational structure secrecy and absolute obedience to a leader In order to show the potential dangers of cults one case study will be analyzed That case study is going to be about the sect of Aum Shinrikyo As it was stated before the Aum Sect has chosen as case example for this study because of the fact that the Aum Sect is a text book example of cult like religious group that transformed into terrorist organization

A Global Threat Religious Cults and Terrorist Organizations Kürşad Kağan ERGÜN In this book the main aim is to understand the potential dangers caused by cult like religious groups that can be described as religious sects that shows similar features as of cults as a result of certain structural features namely their organizational structures secrecy and absolute obedience to a leader which make them ideally suited for terrorism These three features are essential elements for an efficient terrorist organization When cult like religious groups transform into terrorist organizations for various and unexpected reasons they become serious problems for state security Most often however law enforcement agencies discover and destroy terrorist organizations during their foundation periods when they are stil lacking in terms of organizational structure secrecy and absolute obedience to a leader In order to show the potential dangers of cults one case study will be analyzed That case study is going to be about the sect of Aum Shinrikyo As it was stated before the Aum Sect has chosen as case example for this study because of the fact that the Aum Sect is a text book example of cult like religious group that transformed into terrorist organization

A Global Threat Religious Cults and Terrorist Organizations Kürşad Kağan ERGÜN In this book the main aim is to understand the potential dangers caused by cult like religious groups that can be described as religious sects that shows similar features as of cults as a result of certain structural features namely their organizational structures secrecy and absolute obedience to a leader which make them ideally suited for terrorism These three features are essential elements for an efficient terrorist organization When cult like religious groups transform into terrorist organizations for various and unexpected reasons they become serious problems for state security Most often however law enforcement agencies discover and destroy terrorist organizations during their foundation periods when they are stil lacking in terms of organizational structure secrecy and absolute obedience to a leader In order to show the potential dangers of cults one case study will be analyzed That case study is going to be about the sect of Aum Shinrikyo As it was stated before the Aum Sect has chosen as case example for this study because of the fact that the Aum Sect is a text book example of cult like religious group that transformed into terrorist organization img src https s3 eu west 1 amazonaws com dia kitadagitim ckeditor_assets pictures 53 content_1_original_original jpg alt height 15 width 15 font size 1 color white font img