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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

century as an ideology that espoused a homeland for the Jews who were
then without one. As time passed, however, Zionism underwent a process
of degeneration, as happens with many ideologies, and that legitimate de-
mand turned into a radical and irreligious conception that resorted to vio-
lence and terror in practice and formed alliances with extremist forces.
There are two varieties of Zionism today. The first of these is the

Zionist conception of the devout Jewish people, who wish to live in peace
and security in Israel alongside Muslims, seeking peace and wishing to
worship in the lands of their forefathers and engage in business. Muslims
are not opposed to Zionism in that sense. For devout Jews to live in peace
and security in the lands holy to them, to remember Allah and worship in
their synagogues, to occupy themselves with science and business, in
short, to live and settle freely in those lands, is not something to alarm any
Muslim. Indeed, it is a good thing that Muslims would rejoice at.

Throughout the course of history it has always been Muslims who have
enabled the Jews to survive the hardships and sufferings they have expe-
rienced, and who have sheltered and protected them.
The Zionist belief held by a devout Jew and, as described above,
based on the Torah does not conflict with Islam. It is revealed in the

Qur’an that Allah has settled the Children of Israel in that region:
Remember when Moses said to his people, “My people! Remember
Allah’s blessing to you when He appointed prophets among you and
appointed kings for you, and gave you what He had not given to any-
one else in all the worlds! My people! Enter the Holy Land which
Allah has ordained for you. Do not turn back in your tracks and so be-
come transformed into losers.” (Surat al-Ma’ida: 20-21)
Jews therefore have the right to live freely in these lands, but that
right also applies to Muslims, and of course Christians, who have also

lived in them for hundreds of years and believe in the sacred character of
the region. These blessed lands are sufficiently broad, lovely and fertile for
all faiths and communities to live together in peace. The right to life of one

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