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Destructive and Terrorist Cults: A New Kind of Slavery: Leaders, Followers, and Mind Manipulation
To Understand Terrorist/Destructive Cults, their leaders, how they recruit, manipulate minds of their victims, changing them from a normal person into a human bomb. Who are the victims and why they fall in the trap of Terrorist/Destructive leaders?
A compelling yet optimistic account of ideological entrapment, setting out a prescient and persuasive new theoretical framework that advances our understanding of destructive and terrorist cults and how they can be avoided and ultimately transcended.
There isn’t another book that so brilliantly and passionately explains the inner workings of an extremist organization. What could be more relevant in these times of terror? Banisadr knows from personal experience and years of research how such groups manipulate and exploit their members. Now is the time to read this book!
Janja Lalich; Professor of Sociology
California State University
Specialist in Extremism, Cults, and Situations of Undue Influence
Author of Bounded Choice: True Believers and Charismatic Cults
This book is a substantial piece of scholarship and an important contribution to a number of timely topics involving terrorism, cults, and brainwashing.
Stephen A. Kent;Professor of Sociology and Adjunct Professor of Religious Studies
University of Alberta; Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Once in a while, only occasionally in a generation perhaps, a writer will come along with new insights and ways to explain a common phenomenon and it just takes your breath away! You wonder – why didn’t I think about it like this before?
Professor Rod Dubrow-Marshall PhD, MBPsS Deputy Vice-Chancellor
The University of Derby
Banisadr’s work comes into our hands at a critically important time performing a service to all who would see prevail the freedom of the individual to think, to believe and to be.
Steven Alan Hassan M.Ed. LMHC, NCC
America’s leading Cult Expert and Cult Counsellor
Author of Combating Cult Mind Control, Releasing the Bonds,
and Freedom of Mind: Helping Loved Ones Leave Controlling People, Cults and Beliefs
A compelling yet optimistic account of ideological entrapment, setting out a prescient and persuasive new theoretical framework that advances our understanding of destructive and terrorist cults and how they can be avoided and ultimately transcended.
There isn’t another book that so brilliantly and passionately explains the inner workings of an extremist organization. What could be more relevant in these times of terror? Banisadr knows from personal experience and years of research how such groups manipulate and exploit their members. Now is the time to read this book!
Janja Lalich; Professor of Sociology
California State University
Specialist in Extremism, Cults, and Situations of Undue Influence
Author of Bounded Choice: True Believers and Charismatic Cults
This book is a substantial piece of scholarship and an important contribution to a number of timely topics involving terrorism, cults, and brainwashing.
Stephen A. Kent;Professor of Sociology and Adjunct Professor of Religious Studies
University of Alberta; Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Once in a while, only occasionally in a generation perhaps, a writer will come along with new insights and ways to explain a common phenomenon and it just takes your breath away! You wonder – why didn’t I think about it like this before?
Professor Rod Dubrow-Marshall PhD, MBPsS Deputy Vice-Chancellor
The University of Derby
Banisadr’s work comes into our hands at a critically important time performing a service to all who would see prevail the freedom of the individual to think, to believe and to be.
Steven Alan Hassan M.Ed. LMHC, NCC
America’s leading Cult Expert and Cult Counsellor
Author of Combating Cult Mind Control, Releasing the Bonds,
and Freedom of Mind: Helping Loved Ones Leave Controlling People, Cults and Beliefs
- GenresCultsCult Classics
506 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 15, 2014
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About the author
Masoud Banisadr
3 books1 followerIranian anti-cult activist.
Banisadr came from a prominent Iranian family.
In 1978, while pursuing his postgraduate studies in Engineering-Mathematics in England, Banisadr joined the Iranian Mojahedin (MeK), a political organization that played a prominent role in overthrowing the Shah in 1979.
Masoud now considers the MeK, an destructive political cult.
Banisadr came from a prominent Iranian family.
In 1978, while pursuing his postgraduate studies in Engineering-Mathematics in England, Banisadr joined the Iranian Mojahedin (MeK), a political organization that played a prominent role in overthrowing the Shah in 1979.
Masoud now considers the MeK, an destructive political cult.
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