ADNAN OKTAR' PRESS CONFERENCE ON MARCH  8, 2008   ADNAN OKTAR: One must treat all ideas and opinions with love and affection... This country belongs to us all, so let us be as one. Let those who want to be atheists, be atheists, and let those who want to be devout, be devout.  The Jews are our precious brothers, let them go and worship in their synagogues. We can break our fasts with them, go and eat with them, visit their homes. These are not the things that would make anyone uneasy.   ADNAN OKTAR: The European Union’s conception of art, its conception of modernity, and its spirit of union and unity are very excellent. Its progressive aspect that attaches due importance to science and technology is very excellent. But its views concerning the faith, Islam, and even concerning Christianity and Judaism, are most ruthless and incompatible with a democratic way of thinking. A Jew should be free to live according to his faith in schools, and free in official institutions. And the same goes for a Christian or a Jew. The pressure on religion must be lifted entirely. That is where the fundamental error of the EU lies.

       

ADNAN OKTARS INTERVIEW WITH THE MIDDLE EAST PRESS AGENCY (EGYPT) (September 6, 2008) ADNAN OKTAR:The stipulation regarding the People of the Book is set out very clearly in the Qur’an. And the actions and Sunnah of our Prophet (may Allah blesss him and grant him peace) are also very clear. The People of the Book are our brothers. Armenians, Jews, the Orthodox, Protestants, the Christian world in other words, are all our brothers. We believe in the same Allah. Allah is the same Allah in the Judaic world, the Christian world and Islam. There all have the same basic beliefs, for which reason the existence of the People of the Book is a blessing. In other words, it is a great blessing that they are not godless or part of some other heretical movement, but are actually the People of the Book. There is nothing to alarm Muslims in this, it is perfectly reasonable. Because Allah says in the Qur’an that the People of the Book exist. They will do good things and Muslims will do good things. They are people one can live with as brothers, talk with, eat and drink with, and one can even marry Christian or Jewish girls and live an entirely normal social life with them. They are also trustworthy. If a woman becomes someone’s wife, if he has children by that woman and if they live together in the same family, that means a very powerful friendship and love.

 

ADNAN OKTAR'S INTERVIEW WITH PAKISTAN ARY TELEVISION (November 22, 2008) ADNAN OKTAR : For example, we have Jewish neighbors, we have Christian neighbors, and we invite them to dinner and we talk together. I can marry a Christian girl or a Jewish girl. We speak of the existence of Allah, and that is dialogue. There can be no other dialogue.      ADNAN OKTAR : Laicism eliminates hypocrisy. In a secular environment, for example, if someone is a Muslim he can openly state that he is a Muslim. If he is a Christian, he can say he is a Christian, and if he is an atheist he can say that. What I am talking about is freedom of belief. It is people being able to live freely according to their beliefs, whatever those may be.  If someone is a polytheist we cannot force him to become a Muslim. You cannot force a Christian to be a Muslim. He must live by his own belief.   ADNAN OKTAR: Yes, devout Christians and devout Jews and devout Muslims must form an alliance to combat atheism and the system of the Dajjal. A cultural... REPORTER : The conflict that arose at one time in the wake of September 11... ADNAN OKTAR: Yes, conflict must be scrupulously avoided. All devout Christians and all devout Jews must line up alongside Muslims, because the important thing is the system of the Dajjal has declared war on Allah in the atheist world. But those people believe in Allah. The People of the Book believe in Allah, in other words, they love Allah. Those who love Allah must strive against those who are His enemies. But this must be on the level of ideas, of course.

 

ADNAN OKTAR'S PATRONLAR DÜNYASI INTERVIEW (October 13, 2008) REPORTER: What do you think of Turkey’s rapprochement with Israel? ADNAN OKTAR: Wonderful, super. Israel is of the line of the prophets, of the line of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (peace be upon them all). They are a holy people, the Jews, very intelligent and very well-mannered. They are very careful over what is lawful and unlawful. They fear Allah. They love Allah and believe in His oneness. They are fastidious in their worship, and it is their right to be happy.    REPORTER: There are businessmen in Israel. Do you have any dialogue with them?  ADNAN OKTAR: Vitali Hakko, may he rest in peace, passed away, as you know. Now go to Vakko and you will see a great admiration for the Ottomans. There is an amazing admiration for Ottoman things, be it in their fabrics, for instance, or in other decorations. His is a family brought up in the Ottoman way, you can see that from their manner. They are not without flaw, of course, they may have deficiencies, but you can see they stem from an Ottoman education. That applies to the Armenians, too. REPORTER: İshak Alaton, for example. ADNAN OKTAR: Of course, these are people who have preserved the traces of Ottoman upbringing, who have maintained it in their families. And these people, the People of the Book, believe in the oneness of Allah. They fear and love Allah, and are careful over what is lawful and unlawful, for which reason the masons give rise to enmity toward the Jews.  REPORTER: When people think of Adnan Oktar they sometimes think he is opposed to the Jews and all that, but you are not against the Jews at all, you are against the masons. ADNAN OKTAR: I am against atheist zionists. There are atheist zionists of Jewish origins, who are Jews in terms of race. But they do not believe in Allah. And they strive against him. Those are the ones I oppose. These people worship satan, the masons and atheist zionists. But devout Jews are our brothers, they are very dear to us. They never step outside the synagogue. They constantly pray to Allah, their hands in the air. They enjoy fervent links with Allah and are very devout, these Jews. They love Allah. They really love Him. How can we possibly be against such people?  REPORTER: Because when people talk about Adnan Oktar, there may be this image... ADNAN OKTAR: No, no, no. What I am striving against, what I am engaged in an intellectual struggle against, is solely freemasonry and atheist zionism. In other words, of course, communist thinking, all kinds of materialist thought and Darwinism. Because that is a deception...These people are deliberately deceiving everyone.

 

ADNAN OKTAR'S REUTERS INTERVIEW (May 2008) ADNAN OKTAR: I do not think that a true Christian, who believes in Allah alone, who loves all the prophets and the angels will be against a faith. I do not regard it as logical; it is not at all credible. For example, the Jewish regard Islam as a valid faith. This is very important. They regard it as compatible with the faith taught by the Prophet Noah (pbuh). And they believe in Islam as a faith. And I believe that Christians believe in the same way. The beliefs of the three faiths are more or less identical. They have the same beliefs in the prophets, the same beliefs in the Hereafter, the same beliefs in resurrection and the same belief on moral matters. In other words, the beliefs of the three faiths are 90% the same. And when the Messiah, the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) comes, that difference will disappear and there will be just one faith.

 

ADNAN OKTAR'S INTERVIEW FOR SEHER TV, IRAN (October 3, 2008) ADNAN OKTAR:For freemasonry, Jewish genocide is just as acceptable as Muslim genocide. It makes no difference to atheist zionism, as both need to be done away with. It also wants Christian genocide. In other words, it thinks that all believers in Allah must be destroyed. That is why the best response to that way of thinking is for Christians, Muslims and devout Jews to join together hand in hand to foil the snares of satan. That is only possible through the Turkish-Islamic Union insha’Allah. Israel is our friend and brother, and when the Turkish-Islamic Union is established we will lovingly embrace them. Armenia is also our dear friend and brother. Christians, the People of the Book, are our brothers. We will embrace them, too, and place them under our protection, insha’Allah. And we will thus free them from the prongs of atheist Zionism and freemasonry, insha’Allah. REPORTER: So you regard the existence of Israel as a separate matter from atheist zionists? ADNAN OKTAR: Of course. The Israeli people are completely innocent and very devout. They fear Allah and love Him. They worship Him and hate killing. They love their neighbors and are eager to help others.  It is the atheist zionists who do all those other vile things. We went to Israel and wanted to tell people about the existence of Allah in a university, to tell people of the error of Darwinism and to hold an anti-Darwinist conference. But the masonic school administration prevented us. ‘You cannot do this,’ they said. And we were unable to hold the conference. Devout Jews were really unhappy at that. Muslims and devout Jews are brothers and love one another very much. But atheist zionists are opposed to that. REPORTER: The people who settled in Palestine in the name of Israel did so with zionist ideas in mind. How did they differentiate that? ADNAN OKTAR: It is a good thing for Israel, devout Jews in other words, to be in Palestine. That is something that appears in the Qur’an. Allah says in the Qur’an that they will be there. There are many verses of the Qur’an that say they will live there. That is their homeland, and we have a duty to embrace them as brothers and protect them. We have no duty to expel and annihilate them. They are our brothers, entrusted to us from the Prophet Abraham and the Prophet Moses (peace be upon them all). They go and pray to Allah in their synagogues. They worship and pay great attention to cleanliness. They praise the prophets and are full of love. And they have a profound love for Muslims. Because they regard them as having a true monotheistic faith, devout Jews. In other words, Jews regard Muslims as being like themselves since they believe in the oneness of Allah. They regard them as devout, rather than as godless. This is something unknown. But atheist zionists hate Muslims, and devout Jews and Christians, and one has to distinguish between them. Otherwise, I regard their presence in Israel as a richness and source of beauty. Of course they must be there.  That is where their grandfathers are buried, where they spent their whole lives. We Muslims are hospitable people. Even if they did not have a home there, we would be honored to welcome them.  We brought the Jews over from Spain in Ottoman times and settled them here, and gave them a home and land. We gave them opportunities and they lived here in peace. That is why the protection of devout Jews is a religious obligation for Muslims. It is something essential and very important. The mindset that wants to destroy Jews wherever it sees them is that of the atheist zionists. That is what atheist zionists think. It is a masonic way of thinking. Muslims never think like that.  ADNAN OKTAR: These are temporary solutions. The real thing is to get rid of the atheist zionists from among the devout Jews and to neutralize them. The administration there must be under the control of devout Jews alone. Then there will be no problem. The devout Jews will be able to rest easy. They love Muslims very much. They regard us as followers of the faith of the Prophet Noah (pbuh) since we believe in the oneness of Allah, and they regard the faith brought by the Prophet Muhammad (may Allah blesss him and grant him peace) as a monotheistic faith, as a true faith in other words. In other words, even if they are not members of the faith themselves, they still regard us as devout believers. Therefore, even if they do not accept it, our faith wishes to protect them, though in their eyes ours is nevertheless a monotheistic belief. In other words, there is no great gulf between us. The same goes for Cristians. Devout Christians love Muslims. The fact that they believe in Allah, await the Prophet Jesus (pbuh), love the blessed Maryam and the other prophets, means they harbor a profound love for Muslims. So what needs to be done is for the devout, for devout people all over the world, to embrace one another very tightly. There are two forces in the world. There are those who do not believe in Allah, and there are those who do believe in Him.  There is a struggle between the friends and enemies of Allah. We will join with the friends of Allah, and the matter will thus be completely resolved.   ADNAN OKTAR: Jews who believe in Allah must open their arms to Muslims and show them love, and invite them into their homes, and there are many signs regarding this. Allah says we can eat their food. He tells us to eat their food. What does that mean? It means set a table and sit down to eat together. One can marry their daughters. They are very dear to us, our brothers. We want them to be wealthy and at peace and to lead pleasant lives. We will struggle against the atheist zionists together. Let us remember Allah together and come together in prayer. Let us produce books and write articles and communicate the message of Allah. Atheist zionists are also human, of course, and maybe they will also be guided to the true path in that way. Maybe they will mend their ways, but we have a duty to oppose them. But when devout Christians, devout Jews and devout Muslims come together, they will be the greatest force in the world and nothing will be able to withstand them. But if they are divided into three, if Muslims are divided among themselves, then the Dajjal will seize power in a very short space of time. But if these forces combine together, the Dajjal will have no power than a puff of wind. In other words, he will be powerless and be blown away.  ADNAN OKTAR:Zionist thinking is a heretical idea that does not believe in Allah or His Book, and that is inimical to the prophets Moses, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Ishmael, Aaron, Joseph (peace be upon them all) and all of them. That is zionist thinking, godless zionism in other words. The same goes for reemasonry. They fiercely reject the Torah. They have the idea of setting people against one another. These heretics believe that humanity will be happier if people are in conflict with one another. They have the devilish and insane belief that mankind will be perfected and evolve when people shed blood, wage war and fight one another. That is why they set people at one another’s throats and think that this is a good thing. We have also distributed some of these books in Israel in order to oppose this perversion. There are a great many people in Israel who download books over the Internet. We are looking to rescue devout, religious Jews. Because these are having terrible trouble with atheist zionists. Atheist zionists are a real scourge for them. Atheist zionists are the enemies of the Jews, the enemies of religious Jews. This needs to be broken. These people wonder what to do. Let’s set Arab coutries at war with one another and then send in the suicide bombers. Let’s organize bombinds and provoke wars. Let’s really make life difficult fot them, they say. It was the zionists who inflicted Hitler on the Jews. Hitler slaughtered vast numbers of devout, religious Jews, as you know. The zionists were Hitler’s helpers. They are people who arranged considerable support for him. But atheist Darwinism, Nazi thinking and communist thinking all draw their depth from Darwinism, the diametric opposite of belief in creation. Darwinist thinking is the real religion of this heretical trend.

 

ADNAN OKTAR'S INTERVIEW WITH TASCA (TURKISH-ARAB SCIENCE, CULTURE AND ART ASSOCIATION) (November 21, 2008) ADNAN OKTAR: The Turkish-Islamic Union is in any case internaional. Something between brothers, let us say. Of course we hope to reach all the Turkic states and all Islamic countries, but Christians and Jews are entrusted to us by Allah. I feel a deep love, respect and desire to protect them. That is why I am especially keen for Armenia to be part of the Turkish-Islamic Union. I particularly want Israel to be in it. I want them to see the love, concern, interest, support and help they will be showm, how freely they will be able to live, and in what a friendly and warm manner they will be treated, insha’Allah. Look, the Jews have been faithful to the Prophet Moses (pbuh) for thousands of years. This is a most excellent thing. But they do not know. They may not have realized. They may not have understodd the Qur’an. They are trying to incite people against the Qur’an. But everything began to change once they realized and understood. They began to understandthe false nature of belief in the trinity. They Jews began having a better understanding of the conception of the Hereafter. It used to be in the Torah, but they took it out. Yet belief in the Hereafter can still be seen in the Torah. They began to strengthen that belief under the influence of the Qur’an. As these people were told about Islam and the Qur’an they at least began amending their polytheism and other false aspects.  That is a great success and blessing. In one verse Almighty Allah tells us to “unite around a single word, the oneness of Allah...” That is the call we are making to them, and they are our brothers. Theirs is an old Islam, but has been corrupted. But that is an old form of Islam and they are the People of the Book. They are therefore people with at least as much right to love, respect and protection as Muslims. They will therefore live in peace and security.

 

ADNAN OKTAR'S INTERVIEW FOR TEMPO TV (September 24, 2008) ADNAN OKTAR:  Yes, that was a good move at the time. We then launched a second move, a second offensive. This time the AKP [ruling Justice and Development Party] also began making good positive moves, one after the other. Most important, the Caucasian Alliance project was brought to life. That is not limited to them, of course. There is intensive unificatory activity, either overt or covert, going on with Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and all the Turkic states. But the really important thing is that this Turkish-Islamic Union will not be an union intended to oppress Christians. It is also intended so that Christians can also live at ease, protected against terrorism, in plenty and abundance. It means the Jews, too, living in security and prosperity. Because there is no pretension to racial superiority, no idea that the Turkish race is the best in the world, involved here. What I am saying is that the Turks are people of taqwa. They are loyal and excellent people who fear Allah. They are virtuous and hospitable and dependable. This nation, these people, should be the leader. Let us set up the Turkish-Islamic Union. Russia will be able to relax, and China and Israel. Indeed, let us include Armenia and Israel in the union. Let us all live in peace as brothers. That is what is involved, not obliterating anyone else. It is a policy meant to strengthen them. That must be properly emphasized. When people spoke about the Turkish-Islamic Union before, people got the idea it was about racial superiority, a dictatorship based on racial superiority like that of Hitler or Mussolini.    ADNAN OKTAR:  An alliance of civilizations. I love the Jews, and the Armenians and the Greeks. They are all my brothers. I love all Jews. I regard the Shiites, Alawites and Bektashis as my brothers. Because we are all People of the Kibla. We all believe in the same Allah. We all love the same prophets. If that is an alliance of civilizations, it is also the command of the Qur’an. If they say anything else, we will look into it, this is a religious commandment.   ADNAN OKTAR: The Jews are entrusted to us by Allah, and I  have a huge love and respect for them. It is the atheist zionists I am opposed to. The difference must be absolutely clear. Otherwise I want them to live in plenty and abundance in Israel. I want them to live and worship in peace. Nobody can or should question their presence there. Because they are a holy people descended from the prophets. But it the atheist zionists who are running the present-day state of Israel. And they are inciting Israeli Jews. They are literally spreading savegery all around.

 

ADNAN OKTAR'S INTERVIEW WITH THE GULF TODAY (UAE)  (November 2, 2008) ADNAN OKTAR:  This is a very wrong idea, of course. The People of Israel are descended from the prophets, they are the grandchildren of our own prophets. And they follow the law of the Prophet Moses (pbuh) and have preserved that law and faith from that day to this.  Therefore, it is incompatible with reason and good conscience to leave theseimmaculate people without a state, to deprive them of their nation, to seek to exile them from their lands or deny them the right to life. Muslims are affectionate, compassionate and full of love. The Jews are our brothers and have the right to life. They are first-class human beings, who live, trade, make art and do science as they wish in the region. So why should they be forced from their lands or deprived of the right to a quite life? That is unacceptable to anyone. And unacceptable to me. Of course they will live in peace and happiness, and their lives will be guaranteed. They will live in plenty and abundance in the Turkish-Islamic Union. The words of the Qur’an are plain to see, as are the Sunnah and practices of our Prophet (may Allah blesss him and grant him peace). The People of the Book, the People of Israel, lived in complete ease in the time of our Prophet (may Allah blesss him and grant him peace). They also lived in Jerusalem at that time, in the region of Israel. They were happy and prosperous and were treated with love and affection. One can marry Jewish girls, sit down at their tables, eat food they have prepared, visit their homes and be friends with them. That was the practice in the time of the Prophet (may Allah blesss him and grant him peace) and his Sunnah. And it also applies to Christians. As you know, one of our Prophet’s (may Allah blesss him and grant him peace) concubines was a Christian. She is our mother, someone we remember with the greatest respect. I am not talking about Judaism alone. Christians are also people we must regard as having a right to live in peace and happiness and plenty and abundance and the joy thereof.

 

ADNAN OKTAR'S TIMOTHY FURNISH INTERVIEW (December 14, 2008) ADNAN OKTAR: The Dajjal is a godless, atheist intellectual system opposed to Islamic, Christian and Muslim belief, in other words opposed to Christians, Jews and Muslims. It is currently represented by Darwinism. There has never been such an organized atheist rebellion, it is the first time it has been so comprehensive. That is why Darwinism is truly the system of the Dajjal of the End Times.   It is the system of the Dajjal. It is blind, it looks at the world through materialist eyes, and the Dajjal has been fully described. I mean the technology of the time of the Dajjal has been fully described. We are told that the Dajjal will fly in the sky, in other words that air travel will be available at that time, that he will be able to touch the sea bed, meaning that the sea will be plowed by trawler ships, that he will see over great distances, and that there will be mechanized agriculture using no animals, meaning the land will not be plowed by oxen. We are in that time. The system of the Dajjal will eliminate spiritual matters in that age and will claim divine status for itself. They have today made a god out of matter and chance. And it is the first time in the world there has been such an organized atheist structure. This is the system of the Dajjal of the End Times.    ADNAN OKTAR: Peace, love, brotherhood, level-headedness and an idea of the importance of art and beauty will dominate in the union I am describing. Importance will be attached to well-being, peace, human rights and democracy. And there will be a profound affection and love for Christians and Jews. To my way of thinking, the Armenians and Israel will also be part of the Turkish-Islamic Union. This is no pretension to any superiority of race or blood. It is a union of love and affection. There is therefore no harshness, and nothing to alarm or disturb anyone. It is a system that strives for human happiness and joy.   ADNAN OKTAR: It is not opposed to Christian union. The Islamic Union is one that operates in alliance with Christians. Because we are talking about the return of the Prophet Jesus (pbuh). The Prophet Jesus (pbuh)will return in 10-15 years. Christians, Jews and Muslims are all living with the excitement of that. The Jews are awaiting the Messiah. But he whom the Christians and we are awaiting is the Messiah Jesus. The Christian world and we are awaiting the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) and living the excitement of that. So how can there be any opposition between us? We share a common love. We all wait the coming of the Prophet Jesus (pbuh). So there will be a complete alliance with them, and no gulf between us.  ADNAN OKTAR: Of course. These things will increase still further and grow in strength. Co-operation among Christians, Muslims and Jews will increase all the time. And it will expand in scale. These things are all portents of the coming of the Prophet Jesus and Hazrat Mahdi (peace be upon both of them). No country and no power on Earth can prevent it. The coming of the Prophet Jesus and Hazrat Mahdi (peace be upon both of them) is inevitable and certain. They will experience the shock and amazement of that in 10-15 years.

 

ADNAN OKTAR'S INTERVIEW WITH VATAN TV (January 12, 2008) ADNAN OKTAR: It may be a Christian who wants it, or a Jew or a Muslim.  A Christian citizen enjoys freedom of worship, can build churches as he wishes, and land can even be given for the purpose. A Jewish citizen is free to build synagogues and worship as he wishes, and that is much preferable to his being godless. I mean, is an atheist better for a Muslim, or a priest? Of course the priest is much more acceptable. It is better that someone have a faith.   ADNAN OKTAR: That state of Israel is one that has right to exist there, and I love the Jews as a nation, as human beings. But I love religious Jews, who believe in the onenenss of Allah and are scrupulous when it comes to what is lawful or unlawful.  Because there are also godless, atheist zionists. They are the dominant force in the Israeli administration today. That is a huge problem. It is they who are implementing this violence and savagery. And it is they who organize freemasonry. These are the people who blatantly support Darwinism and materialism and laugh in the face of the Torah. They deny the Qur’an and the Torah and the Gospels, they deny al spiritual values and have no belief in the Hereafter. And these people currently run the administration in Israel, in large numbers. They are a huge force in other words. And then there are devout Jews. They are really good people, and they do nobody any harm. These fear Allah, believe in the Hereafter, love all the prophets and are descended from them. The distinction is most important. That applies to Christians who share those ideas. I always respect devout Christians. But if someone claims to be a Christian but behaves like an atheist, that is hypocrisy and something most unpleasant.

 

ADNAN OKTAR'S INTERVIEW WITH VATAN TV (December 20, 2007) ADNAN OKTAR:There is no need to set this out in terms of inter-faith dialogue. We can take a humane approach, talk as friends and exchange ideas, that is the sense it should be taken in. It would be wrong to force dialogue into such an awkward form. I love Christians, for example, and Jews, if they truly love Allah and are devout and perform their religious observations. We can have human relations. I can go and eat with them and they can come to us. We can marry Christian or Jewish girls. That is a stipulation in our religion. We do not accept all their beliefs, of course. We believe in the oneness of Allah. We are all agreed on the subjects of Paradise, Hell and the Hereafter. We are agreed on the return of the Prophet Jesus (pbuh). But I oppose belief in the trinity. I regard it as polytheism and reject it.