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Adnan Oktar
(Harun Yahya)

interfering with the lifestyles of everyone else, and try to impose his

choices and lifestyle on everyone else. They will even believe that those
who do not believe in their radical system, which has no place in the
Qur'an, should be 'fought against' and thus will adopt a perverse path.
However, the Qur'an is very clear about what is allowed and what
is banned. The number of things God forbids for people is very few; all
the world except for these few unlawful things are lawful. Consequent-
ly, living by the religious morality is very easy. Muslims are free to the

utmost within these borders that God set. In the Qur'an, God explains:
"He does not desire difficulty for you" (Surat al-Baqara, 185).
Just like in many Arabic countries in the Middle East, lack of edu-
cation which plagues mostly women, form the basis of extremist move-
ments. Half of the female population of Yemen is illiterate and while
they are raised as Muslims, they cannot read the Qur'an. They can
learn about their religion only from the people around them. Some of
them know Islam only to the extent that they have been taught by their
families and mistake extremism for 'real Islam'. And because they can't

read, they cannot check to see if what they are told is really in the
Qur'an or not. This is surely not their fault. All because of this, many
women accept to be seen as 'second-class citizens' due to the supersti-
tions shown as a part of religion. Surely this is not all. The children
raised by such women also grow up under the influence of a similar
ideology and when they hold a position in the society, they work to
keep this flawed ideology alive.

It is crucial that the Fact of Creation, the basis of all Divine reli-
gions, is added to the curriculum as a rebuttal to the theory of evolu-
tion. Compassion, love, respect, understanding, reason, forgiveness
and other virtues cannot be reasonably expected from people who are
raised with the lie that he is an advanced form of apes. Therefore it is
of paramount importance that people are taught that 'all humans are
valuable beings with souls,' who are created for a certain purpose like
the rest of the universe.

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