Mooresville filmmaker documents ‘UFO cult’
Abdullah Hashem is still making movies, but this time the location is a little different and the subject much more serious.
A year ago Hashem wrapped up production on the movie “Apache Tears,” which used Mooresville and central Indiana for many of the scenes. Since then he has been working on a documentary about the Raelians, a religious group often called a cult, that believes the human race was started through genetic manipulation by extraterrestrials.
Hashem hopes to discredit the group and ultimately cause it to disband.
The Raelians first came to Hashem’s attention several years ago when they claimed to have cloned a baby named Eve. They have never produced the child for genetic testing to show if this is true, according to various news reports.
Hashem, a 2001 Mooresville High School graduate and IUPUI student, said it was then that he began following them in the news.
Many of their activities, which Hashem says include brainwashing members and using sex as coercion to gain access to its members’ finances, prompted him to take action.
“I’m not a religious nut, but according to my beliefs, when people wear shirts that say there is no God, I have to do something,” Hashem said.
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Visit the film website at raelexposed.com.
