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gion from Abdullah Öcalan read as follows (surely God and the Qur'an
are beyond this):

• I went through a serious philosophical depression in high
school. I declared war on God and became semi-divine when
I emerged victorious from that war. 36
• Monotheistic religious ideologies are political ideologies from
start to finish. Concepts such as religious speech, God, prophets
and angels are the political literature of the time. 37

• God is a kind of medieval feudal manifesto, its basic law
and declaration. 38

• Prayer itself is in general terms a piece of theater. 39
• Regarding the Holy Qur'an: "The third great version of the

Sumerian mythology carried out at the ideological identity level,
one that has undergone a transformation."

• We have nothing to do with religion. Our people must
break away from God and ideology. I broke away from God
after a long struggle. I overcame God. And was thus able to
become Abdullah Öcalan. Islam has given our women
nothing. We will replace it with socialist morality.

• When we look at progress in history, we see quite clearly that
they sought unity and power through the worship of God. Con-
cepts such as the beloved servant going to paradise are the
fantastical elements of the matter, the literary bits.

Leninism has been the ideology of Öcalan and the PKK right from
the beginning. Lenin described the perspective toward religion in the
Marxist ideology that he practiced as follows:

Marxism is materialism… This is beyond doubt. We must
combat religion. That is the ABC of all materialism, and con-

sequently of Marxism. But Marxism is not materialism, which

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