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        "id": 1014798,
        "msgid": "freed-sect-leader-dissolves-group-1447893297",
        "date": "1994-10-31 00:00:00",
        "title": "Freed sect leader dissolves group",
        "author": null,
        "source": "REUTERS",
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        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Freed sect leader dissolves group KUALA LUMPUR (Reuter): The freed leader of the outlawed Islamic sect Al Arqam declared on Saturday that the sect no longer existed and urged his followers to renounce their deviationist religious beliefs. Ashaari Muhammad said this meant he was no longer leader of the movement and its leadership hierarchy had been dissolved.",
        "content": "<p>Freed sect leader dissolves group<\/p>\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR (Reuter): The freed leader of the outlawed<br>\nIslamic sect Al Arqam declared on Saturday that the sect no<br>\nlonger existed and urged his followers to renounce their<br>\ndeviationist religious beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>Ashaari Muhammad said this meant he was no longer leader of<br>\nthe movement and its leadership hierarchy had been dissolved.<\/p>\n<p>\"Let's leave the mistakes behind us and take up the good,\" he<br>\ntold some 1,000 followers at the main commune and headquarters of<br>\nthe messianic sect in a fashionable suburb of Kuala Lumpur.<\/p>\n<p>Ashaari was released last Friday along with five of his<br>\nfollowers after a two-month detention, a week after he recanted<br>\nhis beliefs before Malaysia's highest Islamic religious council.<br>\nThe council had banned Al Arqam on Aug. 5 for \"deviationist<br>\nteachings\" including the coming of a messiah.<\/p>",
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