Can the lessons we learned from extremist cults decades ago be used to fight ISIS recruitment today?

How ISIS Resembles the Doomsday Cults of the 1970s

Producer: Geoffrey O'Connor
Editor: Anne Checler
Associate Producer: Sandra McDaniel
Can the lessons we learned from extremist cults decades ago be used to fight ISIS recruitment today?
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