Aum Shinrikyo

Introduction

The Aum Shinrikyo is a Japanese New devout Movement Organisation but they are furthermore labelled as a terrorist organisation in numerous nations over the world. The group began in 1984, in Japan. It started as a cult where the founder and leader, Shoko Asahara, pledged followers that they would have the power to hover or levitate if they joined. Since its establishment in 1984, it has pledged at least two terrorist attacks. The assembly was well liked in the 1990's and had many constituents (10,000 in Japan and approximately 30,000 in Russia) but following the Sarin gas strike on the Tokyo subway, the figures diminished due to the assembly being aimed at by the police. They changed the title of the administration from Aum Shinrikyo to Aleph.

The infamous Cult started in 1987 and was founded by Shoko Asahara. Aum Shinrikyo has components of Buddhism and Christianity although Christians and Buddhists have no association to the group. The founder, Shoko Asahara, was born in 1957 and is partially blind. He spent his life studying acupuncture which is a common vocation in Japan for the blind. He was apprehended by the Japanese administration and held in jail for a short period for trading useless medicines to cure infections, with the assertion that they give the user exceptional powers. He subsequent journeyed in the Himalayas where he supposedly learnt his divine forces and was teleported to the year 2006 where he talked to fighters who had survived World War III. Asahara formed the Cult in 1987 in a small yoga studio and convinced persons that if they connected they would have exceptional powers such as the proficiency to levitate and they would battle in World conflict III, which was to occur at the end of the millennium. Asahara grew a whiskers when he begun the Cult as a way of appearing as a mystic. The reason the Cult was able to recruit so many members was that the vulnerable sought the belief that they could posse supernatural powers and could achieve a different life to the busy, non-stop working life of most people in Japan.

The Cult members were loyal to Asahara and treated him as a type of Christ. He brainwashed his followers and taught a range of extreme theories such as the doomsday and apocalypse that was his World War III. He brainwashed people into thinking that if they left they would die in the apocalypse and there were cases of members leaving and being killed by other members, acting on Asaharas orders.

Discussion and Analysis

In 2000, the name of the organisation was changed from Aum Shinrikyo to Aleph. Aleph is the first note of the Jewish alphabet. It is somewhat of an enigma that they changed the name to Aleph as the group is strongly opposed to Judaism. The reason for the change of name served to prove to the public they had changed and were no longer Anti-Semitic and to recruit new members that were unaware of the Cult's previous ...