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Harun Yahya - Adnan Oktar

eries that are disproving them, that have had a cultural monop-

oly over the world for the past two centuries. In particular, sci-
entific developments are eroding the roots of materialism, and
this enables people to see the evidence for Allah's existence more
clearly. At a time in which belief in Allah is gaining momentum
and people are turning anew to religious morality, faith in Islam
is also growing rapidly.

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Another noticeable development is the universal recogni-
tion of the fact that Islam is the fastest growing religion in the
world. Furthermore, Islam is the most important subject of cur-
rent affairs. The situation of perhaps 30 or 40 years ago was alto-
gether different. The world was thinking within the cold war's
narrow ideological framework and many people believed, due to

the materialistic worldview's influence, that religious morality
could not be a defining factor in the lives of people and commu-
nities. But at the beginning of the 1980s, Islam suddenly became
the most talked about subject on the planet, and the West real-
ized that Islam's morality was a great power that could set peo-
ple as well as nations in motion.
In the 1990s, the West's interest in Islam increased further, as
indicated, in part, by the rise in the number of articles on Islam

appearing in the media. The greatest interest in Islam came after
9/11, a tragedy that was totally contrary to Islam's morality.
Westerners, in particular Americans, began to make great efforts
to understand and know Islam closely. Currently, researchers
and members of the media are very interested in Islam. Even
though some of this research is biased, it is drawing the world's

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