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system’s command. But the pan-Turkism and pan-Islamism proposed
are completely different things. There is blood in them. And tears.
Whereas in what I am talking about there is love, and peace and broth-

erhood. There is also the greatest possible freedom of thought and ideas.
And everyone is respected for his ideas. What a good thing it will be if
someone can openly say he has no religion. Why should he hide it
instead of openly admitting it? Instead of being a hypocrite, he can say
he has no religion and you then know it and everyone is at ease. If he is
an atheist, then he is your atheist brother, friend. That is possible, Allah
created him in that way. Allah says in the Qur’an that He
will create unbelievers.
ASIA RFA: When I go on the Internet and look at
what young people in the Turkestan territories are writ-
ing I see that they perceive what we call laicism
as atheism. We have not made this
laicism completely clear. You
speak of laicism, but could you

tell us your views on the course
it will follow?
AD NAN OK TAR: A sys-
tem in which the state acts as
judge in which believers and

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