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Adnan Oktar (Harun Yahya)
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to Moses's god! I consider him [Moses] a blatant liar."
This desire for a "high tower," an expression of Pharaoh's pride, is
also reflected in Communist dictatorships' passion for "big buildings."
Beginning with the Soviet Union, all Communist states constructed ex-
cessively large state buildings as symbols of the regime's strength and
endurance. For a long time, the palace built by Romanian dictator
Nicolae Ceausescu in Bucharest retained the title of the world's largest
building. Yet this palace has a very cold and joyless appearance; size was
its most important consideration and it remains an expression of the "su-
periority complex" of Communist ideology.

Forced Migration

In the Qur'an, God reveals some actions that brought destruction
upon their perpetrators, including the removal of people from their
homelands. For example, those who denied God threatened the
prophets that were sent to them: "We will drive you from our land un-
less you return to our religion..." (Qur'an, 14:13) As is told in verse 22:40,
they tried especially to remove Muslims; "those who were expelled from
their homes without any right, merely for saying, 'Our Lord is God'…"
Communist regimes have engineered the greatest forced migra-
tions, and Muslims have been the target of most of them. In Stalin's time,
first the Crimean Turks and later, many other Muslim peoples were
forced to leave their lands overnight and were dispatched, hungry and
miserable to the most barren regions of Russia. Hundreds of thousands
of innocents died on the way, and those who survived to reach their des-
tinations died of hunger, infectious diseases, and freezing cold.

The Destruction of Freedom of Belief

As told in the Qur'an, one characteristic feature of Pharaoh's ad-
ministration was its outlawing freedom of belief. The system deter-
mined what kind of beliefs people could hold. Pharaoh's question to the
magicians who believed in Moses shows this clearly; "Have you be-
lieved in Him before I authorized you to do so?" (Qur'an, 7:123) Again,