Abstract
The present study breaks new ground in the field of radical cults as it provides a contemporary insight into three cult leaders; Jim Jones, Shoko Asahara and Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi. This comparative analytical study will assist national and local government agencies with the identifying the relations between those leaders and their conclusions of terrorism, which in turn, had led to the mass death of cult adherents. Terrorism is a major, and growing, concern in the world today as it relates to security, safety, and the efficient operation of the most important service sectors in any state. The personalities of Jones, Asahara and Al-Baghdadi have made of them sect leaders from three very different religions: Christianity, Buddhism and Islam. Therefore, religion is not the source of radicalism/mass death as the similarities and commonalities exist among those three different groups. Eminently, this study has emphasized on the answers analytically to the research query through academic process supported by refereed articles and real-life occurrences.
Highlights
The world reeled in shock as the news broke about a mass death in November 1978 (Abbott, 2015)
The research is an attempt to answer one key question: (Is religion a source of terrorism?) and three sub-questions emerged from the main question, as follows: 1) What are the real reasons that enabled Jim Jones to attract the known large numbers of followers, and to persuade them to believe in a new religious-based existence, and to kill themselves or others by drinking poison or other ways that they did?
According to the American Cable News Network (CNN) the leader of the Aum Shinrikyo cult Shoko Asahara whose real name is Chizuo Matsumoto was executed by hanging on July 6, 2018, at the Tokyo Detention House, 23 years after the sarin gas attack, along with six other cult members
Summary
The world reeled in shock as the news broke about a mass death in November 1978 (Abbott, 2015). The research is an attempt to answer one key question: (Is religion a source of terrorism?) and three sub-questions emerged from the main question, as follows: 1) What are the real reasons that enabled Jim Jones to attract the known large numbers of followers, and to persuade them to believe in a new religious-based existence, and to kill themselves or others by drinking poison or other ways that they did?. 3) What are the real reasons that enabled Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi to attract the known large numbers of followers, and to convince and persuade them to leave their existing way of life and embrace a new religious-based existence, and to kill themselves or others by carrying out suicide bombings or other ways that they did?
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