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...Children of God leaders have had no serious trouble with the law. And if the elusive Mo's claims are to be believed, his sect is indeed prospering. He claims to have 8,000 missionaries at work in 80 countries and even to have made 2 million conversions. That is "the most explosive growth of a brand-new religious movement in history," says...
...formed organizations to combat the cult and have called in help from various professional "deprogrammers." The Children blame unspecified "enemies" for the death of at least one disciple, whose nude body, with several internal organs crushed, was found last year at a medieval fortress in Belgium. Opponents suspect the sect itself, and police have never solved the case. Moses David's son Paul died under similar circumstances in Switzerland...
...long-running feud between the erratic Gaddafi and Sadat. After Gaddafi struck an arms deal with the Soviets in 1975, Sadat concluded that Gaddafi was trying to overthrow him by supporting an Egyptian underground with Libyan money and Russian arms. In early July, when an extremist Muslim sect called the Society for Repentance and Retreat murdered a former Egyptian Cabinet minister and planted bombs in Cairo, the Egyptian government blamed it on Gaddafi. At least four people have been executed in Egypt as Libyan "saboteurs." Sadat is incensed by Libyan propaganda that mocks him and his wife Jehan as "Antony...
Egypt has had its share of assassinations and random killings in the past, but there was something malevolently different about the Zahaby case. His alleged murderers were members of an extremist Muslim sect called Jamaat al Takfir wal Hijra (the Society for Repentance and Retreat), which has blended the urban terrorist tactics of West Germany's Baader-Meinhof gang with something akin to the perverted zeal of Charles Manson's spiritual slaves. The society, which believes in repentance for sin and retreat from the evils of the modern world, is far more extreme than even the archconservative, fundamentalist...
...religious and political storm. The council of ulama, or scholars, of Cairo's Al Azhar University, the most venerable group of theologians in Islam, solemnly denounced the extremists for "violating the teachings of Islam" by killing a brother Muslim. Police, meanwhile, launched a dragnet that hauled in 190 sect members. At week's end Moustafa was nabbed by police and reportedly confessed to having ordered the assassination. A young bricklayer has admitted he shot Zahaby. But three bombs believed to have been set by the group exploded in Cairo, one injuring four people, and officials were far from...