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The Scientology cult uses celebrities to recruit followers (see also: Atheist cults).[1][2]

Stratfor Advisory Services, which provide global enterprises predictive, customized intelligence assessments, wrote about violent ideologies and their recruitment methods:

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.[3]

References

  1. Sappell, Joel. "The Courting of Celebrities", Los Angeles Times, June 25, 1990, p. A18:5. Retrieved on 2006-06-06. 
  2. Shaw, William. "What do Tom Cruise and John Travolta know about Scientology that we don't?", The Daily Telegraph, February 14, 2008. Retrieved on 2009-06-25. 
  3. To Kill an Ideology By Scott Stewart, VP of Tactical Analysis, Stratfor