Meaning:
In religion and sociology, a cult is a cohesive group of people (often a relatively small and recently founded religious movement) devoted to beliefs or practices that the surrounding culture or society considers to be far outside the mainstream. Its separate status may come about either due to its novel belief system, because of its idiosyncratic practices or because it opposes the interests of the mainstream culture. Other non-religious groups may also display cult-like characteristics.
The Wako disaster in the USA in the 90's was a religeous cult, the Japanese gas attacks where by a cult, 1978- Christian cult "the Peoples' Temple" leader Jim Jones allegedly kills 913 people with cyanide-laced Kool Aid. People trying to escape the compound are shot.....etc....all classed as cults......and Christians at that.....so why are they not referred to as Christian Fundamentalists/Terrorists?
Why are not the Muslim Fundamentalists referred to as a cult?.....This then removes them from mainstream Muslims which I consider the correct way of referring to them, instead of throwing them all under one banner.
We don't refer to what happened at Wako as Christian terrorism......it's a religeous cult.
