The Al Arqam sect was started by an Islamic leader named Ashaari Mohamad. The government of Malaysia had banned the group back in 1994 calling them a heretical and deviant cult.
According to reports, psychologists had said that Captain Zaharie Ahmad was "self-destructive" after his creepy Facebook messages to young Instagram model twins surfaced.
A Malaysian man petitioned the Kuala Lumpur HC in Malaysia to renounce Islam and return to Christianity, his original faith, after divorcing his Muslim wife, but his appeal was rejected