Page 335 - A Call for a Turkish-Islamic Union

Harun Yahya - Adnan Oktar

slavement of other nations. Claiming that the white race was supe-

rior to the "lower races struggling for survival," they tried to legit-
imize their policies of colonization and imperialism. While colo-
nization was continuing at a rapid pace, colonialists were claiming
to bring civilization to these nations. After a while, however, scien-
tific advancements exposed Darwin's theory as lacking scientific
substance and as nothing more than a myth. It also became clear
that imperialists brought exploitation and misery, rather than civi-
lization, to the lands they colonized. Still, the effects and remnants
of the imperialist mentality and Darwinist logic continue to exist,

albeit on a much smaller scale.
At the present time, certain Western imperialists, who saw
circles in the West, under the in- some nations as "primitive"
and "unevolved," received sup-
fluence of such flawed reasoning,
port from Darwinism.
set out from the premise of their According to this misguided
race's and civilization's superior- theory, some nations, including
ity when determining how the the Aborigines of Australia,
could not complete their devel-
West will relate with the rest of
opment and thus were suppos-
the world. Of course, this is a edly inferior to the white race.
great error that will only cause
more tension and worsen existing
problems. Both the Western and
the Islamic civilizations are an-
chored in history, and both have
influenced one another deeply.
Moreover, the differences exist-

ing between civilizations should
not be used as fodder for satisfy-
ing superiority complexes or, for
that matter, as a source of conflict.
To the contrary, the two civiliza-

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