Religious Extremism

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…to be religiously based and very high intensity, controlling groups that have caused or are liable to cause loss of life among their membership or general public. The cult was found by Shoko Asahara in 1978 and its discovery eventually lead it to reach a peak of about twenty thousand members world wide. The extremist cults philosophy combines elements of Buddhism and Christianity, which was developed when Asahara traveled to the Himalayas to study these religions.