Page 61 - Bigotry: The Dark Danger

Adnan Oktar
(Harun Yahya)

According to this report, in terms of law, each individual
had equal rights, enjoyed the freedom to choose their own
religion and to participate in war together with Muslims,
while under all circumstances, they were prohibited from
engaging in any separate agreements with the enemy,
showing an effort to establish a strict solidarity of the
Medina groups. The author of the report says that this
political and religious text aimed at establishing a new

society around the values of equality and freedom. As it
was emphasized in the Constitution, the superiority of the
law over the individual was the basic step in attaining the
goal of securing an atmosphere of dialogue and co-exis-
tence. The items of the Constitution also signified the
equal responsibility of each individual in defending
the city. According to this report, given that

the names of all the groups in the city are
cited one by one, the Constitution and
thereby the Prophet, recognized all these
groups in the city as legal entities and took
them into account. (Kenan Çetinkaya, Amerika'da
Diyalog anlayışı ve Medine Vesikası [Understand-
ing of Dialogue in America and Medina Charter])

Although there are a large number of items con-
cerning the Jews in the constitution, it will also be
appropriate to remind ourselves that it also included
pagan communities living there. Although the poly-
theists in Mecca openly demonstrated their enmity
toward the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) and Mus-

lims and forced them from their lands, the Prophet
(pbuh) always treated the pagans of Medina in a

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