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Harun Yahya - Adnan Oktar

crushing. They make a rational person feel quite wretched. The best
thing to do is to leave that scene. On the other hand, if someone
comes and starts gossiping, then the best thing you can do is start
praising the person they are gossiping about; you take that pleasure
of gossip from that person. A few words of praise would make that
gossip meaningless.

3- MOCKERY
Another common behavioral defect in the Religion of the
Ignorant, mockery is openly forbidden in the Qur'an, and it is re-
vealed in one verse just how much it is to be avoided: "Woe to every
scorner and mocker" (Surat al-Humaza, 1).
In Ignorantism, on the other hand, no rule prevents anyone
from mocking and belittling another at the first opportunity. On the
contrary, lining up alongside the mocking one is a much more at-
tractive proposition. We may cite the following examples:
Mocking certain people by rolling one's eyes when one is in the
company of people one knows well,
Bringing up people's errors, faults and flaws with the intention
of disparaging them and subjecting them to ridicule,
Mocking people's physical features, and by referring to their
deficiencies or weaknesses sarcastically in terms of enormous
praise.
Additionally, disparaging people by means of jokes and barbed
comments, or giving them cruel nicknames, belittling people with
looks and gestures, imitating them in a manner designed to humili-
ate them, seeking to put down someone else by means of the style,
tone of voice and words one selects, smiling at others in such a way
as to draw attention to a flaw in the way they are speaking, and
whispering about people so that they cannot hear are all behaviors

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