Word: cult
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Nevertheless, a few former members claim that the MEK is a cult, one that isolates adherents from their families, seeks to control them by limiting access to outside information, and prevents them from having sex. Indeed, there are no children at Camp Ashraf. The youngest residents are in their 20s, something MEK legal advisor Behzad Saffari says is because "military camps are not places for family life...
...periodically sliding slippery claims and counter-claims into the media. For example, the MEK claims that Iraqis are withholding food and medical supplies and preventing doctors from entering the camp. That's "baseless, it's a pack of lies," Rubaie says. Similarly, Rubaie insists that the MEK is a cult, whose "brainwashed" members need to be separated from the 25 or so leaders and "detoxified" so they can resume normal lives. "Sheer lies," says Madani, the MEK spokesman...
...photographs were airbrushed extensively by graphic designers. “Mao never brushed his teeth, but in photos his black teeth were always pearly white,” Heller said. Heller also described how Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini both used graphic designers to promote “the cult of the kid.” In Fascist Italy, youth was idealized: posters which depicted virile young men and women were the cultural advertisements that championed this ideology. In his research for a book on the subject, Heller even came across the Nazi “branding manual...
...perhaps with premeditation—we might indulge in the gory, campy, low-budget magnificence of the zombie movie. Ever since George A. Romero’s release of “The Night of the Living Dead” in 1968, the zombie movie genre has attracted a cult following all its own. Over the years, the slow-moving, heavily made-up zombies of the classic black and white horror films have transformed into the disease-crazed, CGI-enhanced undead of modern-day thrillers such as “28 Days Later.” Though zombies have become...
...regarded with an almost mystical reverence by followers, thanks to a personality cult maintained by constant LTTE propaganda and his remarkable ability to escape capture whenever backed into a corner...