Is this the next suicide cult? A character who calls himself Abdullah Hashem Aba al-Sadiq used to be a student of religion and counter-cult activist before he became a cult leader himself?! I didn´t know that he was briefly based in the Swedish town of Örebro. Iraq, Egypt, Malaysia and the United Kingdom also show up in the story.
AROPL (as the cult is known) has a bewilderingly eclectic message spiced with disturbing apocalypticism. Note the Woke stuff! It´s very nominally Muslim, but is really a classical personality cult around Abdullah himself. The group´s present compound is in the UK. Indeed, AROPL is registered as a legitimate religion in both the UK and the US. Meanwhile, Abdullah calls on followers to sell their homes, give their money to the cult and come live with him at the compound.
Same old, same old. Let´s hope it won´t end in the same old way...
