Trafficking, Love Has Won, Baha'i
A Little Bit Culty: Protecting Kids from Cults and Traffickers with Robin Boyle-Laisure
"What happens when a street-corner "religious" pitch nearly ropes in a teenage girl—only for her to dodge the hook and spend the next three decades dismantling the playbook that tried to claim her? In Part 1 of our conversation with Professor Robin Boyle-Laisure—St. John's University School of Law faculty, board member of the International Cultic Studies Association, and author of the upcoming Taken No More: Protect Your Children Against Traffickers and Cults—we follow the twisted parallels between cult recruitment and human trafficking.
Robin breaks down how predators groom, coerce, and control—whether they're fishing for followers in a dorm lounge or luring teens through online games. We talk about NXIVM's "collateral" bombshell, the grooming-to-control pipeline, and why charisma is just the sugar coating on a rotten core. You'll never look at "just talking" to strangers online the same way again.
Catch Robin's new book, Taken No More, this fall, and keep an eye on robinboylelaisure.com for free downloadable articles and updates."
Ladbible: Why the cult leader's face turned blue before she was found mummified in a jaw-dropping documentary
Her body was found in a sleeping bag covered in fairy lights and glitter two weeks after her death.
"Documentaries can often leave us shocked and full of questions, but the recent coverage of cult leader Amy Carlson is likely one of the craziest things you might ever see.
The Kansas-born mum-of-three quit her job at McDonald's and left her third husband after a man called Amerith WhiteEagle convinced her she was 'ethereal', and in 2007, they moved to Colorado to become Mother and Father God for the cult that would come to be known as Love Has Won.
Her controversial journey was covered in the 2023 HBO documentary Love Has Won: The Cult of Mother God, which showed how the cult convinced its followers that they were led by 'Galactics', which mostly included deceased celebrities such as Carrie Fisher, Robin Williams and the very-much-not-dead Donald Trump.
While viewers were no doubt left confused by the cult's beliefs, which included a wide range of conspiracy theories - one of which suggested that Carlson was a reincarnation of Jesus Christ, or Joan of Arc - it was the 45-year-old's extraordinary death which posed the most questions.
While viewers were no doubt left confused by the cult's beliefs, which included a wide range of conspiracy theories - one of which suggested that Carlson was a reincarnation of Jesus Christ, or Joan of Arc - it was the 45-year-old's extraordinary death which posed the most questions."
"The leader of the small Baha'i community in Qatar was sentenced Wednesday to five years in prison for social media posts that allegedly 'cast doubt on the foundations of the Islamic religion,' according to court documents obtained by an international Baha'i organization monitoring the case.
A three-judge panel of Qatar's Supreme Judiciary Council issued the verdict against Remy Rowhani, 71, who has been detained since April, according to documents provided to The Associated Press by the Baha'i International Community office in Geneva, Switzerland.
The judges rejected a defense request for leniency on the grounds that Rowhani suffered from a heart condition, according to the documentation.
Saba Haddad, the Geneva office's representative to the United Nations, depicted the verdict as 'a serious breach and grave violation of the right to freedom of religion or belief and an attack on Remy Rowhani and the Baha'i community in Qatar.'"
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