Western Religious Proselytizers and Islamist Terrorists

Part I: Attraction and Justice... I call it Incultrination

Along with our 5 physical senses, we also have a sense of “connectedness,” which is stimulated pleasurably by positive engagement with another person. We know when we are snubbed by an individual, and are silently aware of whether we are included in or excluded from at least one societal group or another.  Many, hungry for connection, are unable to consider themselves valuable as ends in themselves.   Some resort to frantic searches for a thread of emotional connection to others, desperate for the feedback of fellowship.  For a few, their scrambling search for this self-affirming connection leads them to abusive fringe groups promising them the sense of belonging they crave.

Terrorist groups and religious cults promise a package of friends, fun, and worship, and capitalize on the basic human need for connection, made vulnerable by mental confusion caused by emotional distress.  What they deliver is “incultrination.”  This well-defined process to recruit and condition members is common to both terrorist groups and religious cults.  Incultrination causes a freakish form of false spiritual connectedness, enslavement to the terror group or cult leaders.  The weak and confused then get their sense of belonging.  They now belong to an elite corps of religion marketers or killers.

What brutal evil, in the name of religion.  Religious leaders steal freewill, by obligating subjects of their “theocracy” to “obey god,” for whom they claim to speak. Their commands falsely enslave and imprison those vulnerable needy, who are further tormented by their own inhibitions against questioning the commands and statements of their leaders, whom they call “the anointed” or “imam.”


Thus imprisoned, the leaders coerce “remainment” by threatening a pronouncement of “spiritual death” to any “apostates”  (what it really is is religious execution)  Not that the religious leaders would not choose to impose physical execution, if only the laws allowed:

In the case of where a father or mother or son or daughter is disfellowshiped, how should such  person be treated by members of the family in their family relationship?  We are not living today  among theocratic nations where such members of our fleshly family relationship could be  exterminated for apostasy from God and his theocratic organization, as was possible and was  ordered in the nation of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai and in the land of Palestine. 'Thou shalt surely kill him; thy hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. And thou shalt stone him to death with stones, because he hath sought to draw thee away from Jehovah thy God, .. And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is in the midst of thee.'-Deut. 13:6-11, AS.  Being limited by the laws of the worldly nation in which we live .. we can take action against apostates only to a certain extent..2”

Here, the Watchtower - the semimonthly magazine of the Jehovah’s Witnesses- whines about their inability to use stoning as their execution technique to deal with apostates. This attitude naturally flows to the men charged with dispensing the justice.  In a personal conversation with an elder who had just disfellowshipped a woman for adultery, he lamented, “When I saw Karina (not her real name) sitting in the chair as the announcement that she was disfellowshipped was read, I just wanted to beat her out of her seat.”