[PsyOp]

I guess you are gonna think I'm naive but I've always had a hard time believing that a cult could start with a perfectly normal person and get them to believe totally unbelievable things. When I was younger I used to wonder about picking a cult to join to prove I couldn't be brainwashed.

The Koran and its prophet were the forerunners of Nazism. The Koran is to Mohamed and his followers what Mein Kampf and Hitler were to the Nazis.

Having read both thoroughly, I can say with some authority that both works rely on the same formula. HATE. It is easy to control and influence people when you can givie them an object of hate for all of their problems, and thereby offer them a vision of paradise to be achieved when the object of their hate is eliminated.

It has nothing to do with brain-washing. It is simple human psychology. The Koran gives would-be follower plenty of hooks to hang their hate and anxiety upon, and then tells them they are right for doing so, and also right if they destroy what they hate. Same as Mien Kampf.

Ideology and religion operate on faith.

[gondramB]

"It has nothing to do with brain-washing. It is simple human psychology. The Koran gives would-be follower plenty of hooks to hang their hate and anxiety upon, and then tells them they are right for doing so, and also right if they destroy what they hate. Same as Mien Kampf."

Following that theory it would be important to have a steady stream of external enemies or that hate might turn on the leaders.