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The cult [[Scientology]] uses celebrities to recruit followers.
Stratfor Advisory Services, which provide global enterprises predictive, customized intelligence assessments, wrote about violent ideologies and their recruitment methods:
{{Cquote|A few weeks ago I wrote about how uncannily similar today's jihadists are to the anarchists who came a century before them...
For one, both types of terrorists rely on celebrity ideologues to recruit and radicalize new followers. Consider the modern jihadist movement, which has trotted out a procession of thought leaders to fill its ranks and fundraise.<ref>[https://worldview.stratfor.com/article/kill-ideology To Kill an Ideology] By Scott Stewart, VP of Tactical Analysis, Stratfor</ref>}}