Cult?

Please bear with me, you all.  I have been watching a particular video in which Umar Johnson was speaking.  The video is linked here.

There are many things that calls my attention to what Umar is saying in this video, in this post, I want to address the idea that Umar is asking his listeners to monitor his haters.

For instance, starting at 20 minutes and 58 seconds until about 21 minutes and 40 seconds, Umar Johnson, says, and I quote:

If you support Dr. Umar Johnson, you will never share a negative video about me.  Let me say this again.  You are not a supporter of mine if somebody posts some bullshit on your page and you share it.  You are not a supporter.  A supporter is someone who will do three things:  Number one...let me screenshot this and let the Doc know that there's a troll.  That's the first thing.  Notify me.  That's number one.  Number two...you might check the troll or inbox the troll.  I don't need for you to go back and forth, unless you want to.  I don't need that.  You might choose to check 'em.  And then the third thing you do is delete that shit off your page.

Umar Johnson then laments people who want to share negative information while acting like they are supporting him.  My goodness, Umar says, "how are you supporting me spreading negative information about me.  There's enough false information out there about me.  Why would you add to it if you claim to be my supporter?"

In other words, dissenting opinions, questions (even valid questions) and doubting what Umar Johnson is doing won't be tolerated by him.  And in the "tradition" of a man who claims he has "50 goons" in Chicago, he wants to control what his "supporters" see or read about him.

Please see the list below, from:  Characteristics Associated with Cultic Groups -- Revised by Janja Lalich, Ph.D and Michael D. Langone, Ph.D.

1. The group displays excessively zealous and unquestioning commitment to its leader and (whether he is alive or dead) regards his belief system, ideology, and practices as the Truth, as law.
2. Questioning, doubt, and dissent are discouraged or even punished.
3. Mind-altering practices (such as meditation, chanting, speaking in tongues, denunciation sessions, and debilitating work routines) are used in excess and serve to suppress doubts about the group and its leader(s).
4. The leadership dictates, sometimes in great detail, how members should think, act, and feel (for example, members must get permission to date, change jobs, marry, or leaders prescribe what types of clothes to wear, where to live, whether or not to have children, how to discipline children, and so forth).
5. The group is elitist, claiming a special, exalted status for itself, its leader(s) and members (for example, the leader is considered the Messiah, a special being, an avatar or the group and/or the leader is on a special mission to save humanity).
6. The group has a polarized us-versus-them mentality, which may cause conflict with the wider society.
7. The leader is not accountable to any authorities (unlike, for example, teachers, military commanders or ministers, priests, monks, and rabbis of mainstream religious denominations).
8. The group teaches or implies that its supposedly exalted ends justify whatever means it deems necessary. This may result in members' participating in behaviors or activities they would have considered reprehensible or unethical before joining the group (for example, lying to family or friends, or collecting money for bogus charities).
9. The leadership induces feelings of shame and/or guilt in order to influence and/or control members. Often, this is done through peer pressure and subtle forms of persuasion.
10. Subservience to the leader or group requires members to cut ties with family and friends, and radically alter the personal goals and activities they had before joining the group.
11. The group is preoccupied with bringing in new members.
12. The group is preoccupied with making money.
13. Members are expected to devote inordinate amounts of time to the group and group-related activities.
14. Members are encouraged or required to live and/or socialize only with other group members.
15. The most loyal members (the true believers) feel there can be no life outside the context of the group. They believe there is no other way to be, and often fear reprisals to themselves or others if they leave (or even consider leaving) the group.

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