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Adnan Oktar (Harun Yahya) 177

Terror organisations, on the other hand, in accordance with the
ideologies they espouse, claim that their aim is to remove a govern-
ment and its administrators which they regard as illegitimate and cruel
and, in so doing, that they will reach their goal of establishing a hap-
pier and more just way of life. However, this is not a realistic claim. In
the Qur'an, in the first verses of Surat al-Baqara, God issues this com-
mand to those who think in this way:

When they are told, "Do not cause corruption on the earth," they say,
"We are only putting things right." No indeed! They are the cor-
rupters, but they are not aware of it. (Qur'an, 2:11-12)

For terrorists, killing people is a way of life. They may shoot inno-
cent people without pity and throw bombs at children. For them shed-

ding blood is a pleasure. They have ceased to be human beings and
turned into raving savage beasts. If there is anyone among them who
shows the least feeling of compassion, they brand him as a coward or
a traitor and demote him. Often they use their guns against one anoth-
er and carry out bloody purges against internal factions in their own
organisation.

Terrorism is nothing other than a totally diabolical source of
bloodshed. Whoever supports this cycle of savagery is defending a
satanic system. If a terrorist uses religious language and symbols, this
must not deceive anyone. Terrorists who hide under the cloak of false

religion are doubly guilty, both of the blood they have shed and for the
anti-religious propaganda they have spread while committing these
crimes in the name of religion.

Terror and religion are completely opposed to each other. Terror-
ism adopts the way of aggression, murder, conflict, cruelty and misery.
But according to the Qur'an, all these things are kinds of oppression.
God enjoins peace, harmony, goodwill and compromise. He forbids
terror and every kind of act that does not promote peace, and, con-
demns those who commit such acts: