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T The responsibilities of the Turkish people

Some people who describe themselves as "White Turks" hide

behind that term to engage in horrifyingly racist rhetoric, under
which not only the Kurds but also other ethnic groups are unwanted.
Racism is a mental disturbance that goes far beyond mere igno-

rance. Everyone in the world is descended from the Prophet Adam
(pbuh), and everyone is therefore created equal. People who adhere
to the mindset that regards itself as superior, under the influence of
Darwinism or for other reasons, are both ignorant enough to believe
in the nonsense of Darwinism and also sufficiently ill to speak words
of hate deriving from it. It is therefore wrong to think of someone who
engages in racism as normal and rational and to have any dealings

with him.
Our Almighty Lord reveals in the holy Qur'an that superiority
lies solely in piety, not in ethnicity:

Mankind! We created you from a male and female, and made you
into peoples and tribes so that you might come to know each
other. The noblest among you in God's Sight is the one with the
most piety. God is All-Knowing, All-Aware. (Quran, 49:13)
Some people who describe themselves as "White Turks" and who
regard Kurdish culture and identity as unbecoming, whose eyes and
souls have been atrophied by pride and arrogance, and who imagine

that superiority can be endowed by material possessions and educa-
tion, would like Turkey to consist of its Western areas only and fool-
ishly see nothing wrong in the Southeast breaking away. These peo-
ple care not one jot whether our Kurdish brothers fall into the clutch-
es of the communists and end up being oppressed. So long as nothing
untoward happens to them, they will remain stewing in their own
selfishness and living a loveless life in their materialist world.

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