Momeen says: August 22, 2015 at 12:44 am
DOCTRINAL ASPECTS OF A CULT:
1. Submission:
Complete, almost unquestioned trust in the leadership.
Leaders are often seen as prophets, apostles, or special individuals with unusual connections to God. This helps a person give themselves over psychologically to trusting someone else for their spiritual welfare.
Increased submission to the leadership is rewarded with additional responsibilities and/or roles, and/or praises, increasing the importance of the person within the group.
2.Exclusivity
Their group is the only true religious system, or one of the few true remnants of God’s people.
3.Persecution complex
Us against them mentality. Therefore, when someone (inside or outside of the group) corrects the group in doctrine and/or behavior, it is interpreted as persecution, which then is interpreted as validation.
Control
Control of members’ actions and thinking through repeated indoctrination and/or threats of loss of salvation, or a place to live, or receiving curses from God, etc.
4.Isolation
Minimizing contact of believing members with those outside the group. This facilitates a further control over the thinking and practices of the members by the leadership.
5. Love Bombing
Showing great attention and love to a person in the group by others in the group, to help transfer emotional dependence to the group.
6. Indoctrination
The teachings of the group are repeatedly drilled into the members, but the indoctrination usually occurs around Special Knowledge.
7. Salvation
Salvation from the judgment of God is maintained through association and/or submission with the group, its authority, and/or its Special Knowledge.
Group Think
The group’s coherence is maintained by the observance to policies handed down from those in authority.
8. Cognitive Dissonance
Avoidance of critical thinking and/or maintaining logically impossible beliefs and/or beliefs that are inconsistent with other beliefs held by the group.
Avoidance of and/or denial of any facts that might contradict the group’s belief system.
10. Shunning
Those who do not keep in step with group policies are shunned and/or expelled.
11. Gender Roles
Control of gender roles and definitions.
Severe control of gender roles sometimes leads to sexual exploitation.
12. Appearance Standards
Often a common appearance is required and maintained. For instance, women might wear prairie dresses, and/or their hair in buns, and/or no makeup, and/or the men might all wear white short-sleeved shirts, and/or without beards, or all wear beards. -Momeen
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You are doing Godly (if there!) work, keep it up!
You have excellent writing skills and express your views superbly. We invite you to write an article to all Hindu-Muslim youths in love. Write in a style that mac wrote: https://www.interfaithshaadi.org/?p=10068 . Think you are writing for Times of India or the New York Times. We hope Dr. Ali Sina will also publish it later. Take a month to think through what are most important points you wish to convey and be short to be most effective. Keep people like Dr. Shaikh in mind who initially thinks humanity is important but later get radicalized by wrong teachings. Thanks.
Thanks for your kind words. I shall try and let you know.
In response to Mr. Mac: Regarding the two families which helped Hindus
https://www.interfaithshaadi.org/?p=10328
You could also add these names:
Ghasamfar Ali, a virtuous auto driver who safely drove his passenger, Ms. Ranjani Shankar in the midnight through a 40 km deserted area and even after dropping the young lady, waited with her for twenty minutes till her friend arrived to pick her up. http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/society/bangalore-ola-auto-driver-is-social-media-sensation/article7443777.ece
Mr. Mohd. Isaak and Mrs. Hairunnisa’s selfless service for the tsunami victims. Learn the true meaning of religion from them.
http://www.ndtv.com/video/player/india-matters/india-matters-a-generation-orphaned-aired-july-2005/278146
I personally know an Islamist who uses his zakah money to help the underprivileged people of all faiths.
Religion should not teach you to discriminate; the more religious one claims to be, the more broadminded, inclusive and cordial, he should be.
When parochialism is termed as piety, well, that’s‐ perversion.
And coming back to your point of Muslim goodhearted men, has anyone in the forum ever denied that there is not even a single good Muslim? You’re picking up individual straws to build your case. For every one case of humane information, I can give you thousand instances of gruesome news, as for as Muslims are concerned. See at the larger picture!
A Sudanese woman, Meriam Yahya Ibrahim, born to Muslim father and Christian mother, married a Christian man. The persecution and demonic treatment, the pregnant lady was forced to undergo…..I don’t want to get into the details of her gruesome labour…
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2676747/My-daughter-never-walk-properly-Sudanese-mother-sentenced-hang-converting-Christianity-reveals-doctors-fears-baby-gave-birth-chains.html
Islam’s gatekeepers the ISIS’s atrocities, does anyone need to add any link?
Is there any Muslim majority nation/ state or city where the other faith/ sect followers could live peacefully? In a Sunni dominated nation can Shia/ Ahmediya lead a normal life?
Religion should teach humanity. In their obsession with conquering the heaven, the fanatics are not able to discern between the right and the wrong.
To Mr. Ahmed Noor:
The prime‐most faculty to be slaughtered in any cult is, critical thinking.
Denial is the core component of an enslaved brain. The mind enters the state where what’s considered unethical and unjust by the entire world is justified and rationalized by the individual/ group.
Until the mind begins the battle if its in the right path, even great works like ‘Combating cult mind control’ by Steve Hassan, could prove to be only futile.
Muslims, if are like Ahmedi Muslims‐ peaceful, then no one is going to complain. Only when the cult becomes destructive…
so the mind becomes a god to decide what is right and what is wrong
you are simply blaming us to be violent against who oppressed us .. you see the result (muslim response) but do not see the reason (nonmuslim crimes )
you are simply putting the creator (if you believe in ) under the capability of of human denying mind means the human mind is turning to god
but you forgot that this human mind is responsible for a lot of (mind-man made religions) Judaism,christianity, shia ,Paganism
or secular ideologies – Communism – nationalism- and all are unstuck ,failing , responsilble for handreds of wars killing tens and tens of millions and tragedies around the human history
the human brain was enslaved to all these rubbish ideologies and religions ..
when it comes to islam ….we say the brain should not be enslaved…
not enslaved to whom…… to its creator!!!!!!
And all of these (R & I) had been criticized by islam ..but nobody listened to us
and now you are coming to our islam and talk about denying mind !!!!!!!
so many dangerous human affairs have to be decided according to safe and constant and reliable standards …….those are god standards not unstuck ,failing standards
we say to this mind you have done a lot of tragedies and that is enough
your own zone to act is :science technologies welfare progress but do not touch god authorities
A parochial mind can never comprehend the seamless love of the Creator. The creator is not a human to declare that He would favour only Hindus/ Christians/ Muslims or Jews. God’s affection does not have any boundary of religion or race! The only fact that would ever count is your contribution‐ constructive/ destructive and never the way to which God you prayed and how much you prostrated!
Momeen,
Do you believe in God? Do you believe God created this world in 6 days some 5000 years before. Was Adam the first person came on this earth or do you believe in Darwin’s theory of evolution? (we believe in Darwin).
You already said Muhammad is not an apostle. We all along said that there is nothing left in Islam if one removes Muhammad. If so, do you consider yourself as a Muslim?
Admin i guess ur confused.
Recently i had told u that:
{ “dear admin, for marriage purpose she has become
a hindu. Later i donno whether she’ll follow
Hinduism or islam” }
This was about Rifa Ali and not my gf saba.
Admin v both ( me and saba ) are studying and there is still long way to go for marriage.
Right now v both r just 21yrs old.
For my marriage i’ll definitely opt Special Marriage act.
If her parents pressure her and you for your conversion (very likely, even if you are in the West), then what are you going to do? Dump her or convert?