It is clearly true that serious crimes have been perpetrated by certain religious movements guilty of common crimes should not be vigorously prosecuted.  However, the Solar Temple incidents have been used as a catalyst in number of countries to propose actions against literally hundreds of groups lumped together under the label of "cults." In the minorities in general, seems to be making inroads in political and administrative circles.  As scholars, we  believe that it is important to understand the main tenets of this ideology (Part I).  We then detail some of the results of the ideology in Western Europe, mostly in the form of parliamentary commissions and reports (Part II).  After the examination of some examples (Part III), we offer some final suggestions (Part IV).  It is important that--while the European Parliament prepares to vote  its own resolution on "cults" --an international dialogue on religious minorities involve all the interested parties and those who care about religious liberty.