Clarke wants terrorists treated like victims of cult brainwashing

[emad]

Clarke wants terrorists treated like victims of cult brainwashing
(Filed: 02/10/2005)

Charles Clarke is studying proposals to combat Islamic terrorist groups by treating them as religious cults.

The Home Secretary has told colleagues that anti-brainwashing techniques used to "deprogramme" cult members could be employed to fight the sort of fanaticism behind the July 7 bombings.

"What we know about other religious cults may offer some insight into how these men ended up behaving in this appalling way," he said last night.

He believes that there is no point in seeing extreme Islamists in the "classic" mould of revolutionaries fighting for a political cause. A closer parallel is with recruits to cults, who often come from educated backgrounds and are "brainwashed" into renouncing society.

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[Mike_The_Computer]

1. Clarke just handed his '08 Rethug opponents a huge club

with which to repeatedly beat him about the neck and shoulders. Idiots in America don't want to hear about a "smarter" approach to fighting terror - they just want to send other people's kids to war to "fight 'em over there before we fight 'em over here."

[July]

3. CHARLES ClarkE . . . U.K. HOME SECRETARY. nt

[meow2u3]

2. He stole my idea ;)

Terrorist leaders should be treated like murderers; the followers should enter a deprogramming program. And I don't give a damn whether they're Islamic terrorist cults from the Mideast or Christianist terrorist cults from the United States--a terrorist cult is a terrorist cult!

It's that the followers of these terrorist cults, especially domestic terrorists, have been brainwashed sometimes from early childhood; they don't know anything else. We need to teach terrorist followers there is a better way, even if it means taking the children from their parents to stop the intergenerational cycle.