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atheists can be as free as possible. Atheists do not pray or fast, and you
respect that. They drink wine, and you respect that. Believers go and
pray, however, and you respect that. They fast, and you respect that, too.

They read the Qur’an, and you respect. That is laicism. They may sell the
Qur’an and religious books, and you respect that. Or someone is an athe-
ist and sells books about his own beliefs, and you respect that, too. That
is laicism.
ASIA RFA: East Turkestan is the birthplace of people like Mahmut
of Kashgar and Yusuf Has Hacip, and is inhabited by 20 million
Muslims. But there are really inhumane practices going on there today.
Your advice to the Muslims of East Turkestan is that there are a great
many civil society organizations maintaining their activities by various
means in order to tell people in the Western world, in the USA and parts
of Japan, of the oppression going on there. China is constantly growing.
As it grows it becomes unable to tolerate a number of sensitive issues.
We have seen the case of Tibet. Tibet and East Turkestan represent two
of China’s greatest raw nerves.

AD NAN OK TAR: We shall liberate Tibet, too.
ASIA RFA: What is your advice to people in East Turkestan? What
needs to be done?
AD NAN OK TAR: It is of course wrong to pressurize China. The
thing to be done is culture. They need to raise top-quality young people.
Religious, aware, anti-Darwinist, anti-Marxist, anti-communist people
who think well, professors, scientists, doctors and jurists. There is an
irresistible force, that of culture. They must attach great importance to
culture. Let them enter my web sites and read my books, downloadable
for free. Let them read them all and be properly informed. Let
them look meaningfully into China’s eyes. China will pull
out. It cannot oppose it. No power can stand against culture.
For example, you say the Sun has come up. Someone else
doesn’t believe you. You lift a corner of the curtain and drop

Harun Yahya - Adnan Oktar