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just for reciting the Bismillah in school for the students while eating, on
the grounds he was a religious fanatic. That happened only recently.

These things are going on today, in the 21st century. We could cite hun-
dreds of examples. When we speak of the Turkish-Islamic Union, will
we alarm China still further so the oppression in East Turkestan will
increase still further? There are many Chinese books that say that the
pan-Turkism, pan-Islamism in East Turkestan has stemmed from
Turkey ever since the time of Sultan Abdulaziz. They are still writing
this today. How effective can this thesis be there when China is acting
like this?

AD NAN OK TAR: There is pan-Turkism and pan-Islamism, but
there is also the Turkish-Islamic Union. In pan-Turkism if someone so
wishes he can interpret this as meaning the Turkish race is superior to
the other races of the world and that the other races will be its slaves.
People are naturally afraid of that. Or they think of it as an Islamic
Union. People might try to turn that into a ruthless system in which very
harsh rules apply. We have seen this in the dark times of history. We
have seen it in past times. But neither is what I am referring to here. For
one thing, we have the guarantee of laicism. The system will be entirely
founded on laicism, and that is most important. A Buddhist will be a
first-class human being, an atheist will be a first-class human being, a

first-class citizen. Muslims will be first-class citizens. Christians will be
first-class citizens. Jews will be first-class citizens. And it is through
laicism that this will come about. There will be a joyful, loving atmos-
phere and security, and of course a powerful military presence, a mili-
tary establishment, wherever there is terror. There will be no need for
bloodshed. You will just tell people to give terror up. And they will.
Nobody will persist in the face of deterrent force. Wherever there may
be terror in the world the matter will come to an end when you call to

the individual and tell him to stop, because the Turkish-Islamic Union

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