The original meaning of the term cult, derived from the French word”culte”, comes from Latin noun”cultus”which is related to the Latin verb”colere”meaning”to worship or give reverence to a deity”. The term has originally a positive, religious connotation but in recent years, it has turned to be a widely used popular term,
As their base in Iraq is being dismantled by the Iraqi government and as Massoud and Maryam Rajavi find themselves nearer to the corridors of international courts, the possibility of an outbreak of fatal terrorist activities by the cult members in western countries cannot be over estimated by any means.
Released by its official organ Mojahed, originally published in Persian, No. 257 dated August 24, the organization showed an angry backlash against recently released reports by Iraqi and Iranian media that ‘Interpol has issued arrest warrant for Massoud and Maryam Rajavi, and called it a falsified report.
But now a group closely linked to Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MeK) – the People’s Mujaheddin of Iran – is being represented by a Midland MP. Brian Binley went on a six-day trip to Washington as a lobbyist for the National Council for Resistance in Iran (NCRI). The group is described as the political wing of MeK, and paid for the MP’s visit. …
…it has killed far more Iraqis than al-Qaeda in Iraq and killed far more people worldwide than Bin Laden’s al-Qaeda. It kidnaps children, sexually abuses, tortures and murderers it’s victims, carries out suicide attacks (mainly on Iraqi Shia population) and was a key part of Saddam oppressive regime…
the organisation calls all of its previous members, critics and who were showing some kind of opposition towards the group as the Iranian regime’s agents and members of secret police of Iran. Such allegations are made at a time when the organization is posturing as the most democratic Iranian opposition in exile.
Cult leaders need obedient followers as the tools they use to push forward their violent ideological agenda. And in this way those who do or even could pose a threat to the execution of such orders, and especially who pose any threat to the position of the leader should be, and usually are, the first victims to be got rid of and silenced. This is particularly evident at every point of history of the Mojahedin Khalq Organisation following the Internal Ideological Revolution which began in 1985 and evolved to its peak with forced divorces
In the lead up to the illegal invasion of Iraq , the Bush Administration asserted that Iraq possessed massive stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction and that it was capable of launching an attack – nuclear, chemical and biological – on U.S. the within 45 minutes.
…with a variety of political leverages such as attempts made to escalate the existing tension between Iran and other Western states to advance the strategy of destabilizing and overthrowing the Iranian regime. From the ideological point of view, it tabooed criticism of any kind against organizational hierarchy and thwarted any possible schism and disobedience.
There are some cases in which cult formation has not been predetermined and leaders were to bring about religious and social reforms. However, as a result of inferring new ideologies, they have separated themselves from others thus forming a cult faced with opposed ideologies on the part of the society.