They are all cults. How do they NOT meet the common definition?
You wanna know the difference between a religion and a cult? The size of their financial holdings.
Why are the People's Temple, Rajneesh movement and Aum Shinrikyo considered cults but not the Taliban, Al-Qaeda and ISIS? They're all violent groups motivated by twisted religious beliefs, right?
One needs to look at one self prior to all this cult or religion jazz. What is that you want? What exactly are you looking for? Why?
They are cults. It is just the news media thinks calling them religious extremists makes for a better headline. Once you actually read the articles and not just the headlines, you will find they are called cults.
As far as I'm concerned the Taliban, Isis and Al Qaeda are all drinking the same Kool-Aid that Jim Jones of the peoples Temple fed his followers, they're all crazy religious fanatics and they all should be considered delusional and dangerous.
