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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

elites. (In his classic book entitled
The New Class, the Yugoslavian
thinker Milovan Djilas, explains
that the communist leaders, known
as "nomenklatura," formed a "priv-
ileged class" contrary to the claims

of communism.)
Also today, when we look
within Masonry itself, which is
constantly pronouncing its ideas of
"service to society" and "sacrifice
for humanity," we do not find a
very clean record. In many coun-
tries, Masonry has been the focus
The guillotine, the French Revolution's
of relationships for ill-gotten ma- implement of brutality.

terial gain. In the P2 Masonic Lodge scandal of Italy in the 1980's, it came
to light that the Masons maintained a close relationship with the mafia,
and that the directors of the lodge were engaged in activities such as arms-
smuggling, the drug trade or money laundering. It was also revealed that
they arranged assaults on their rivals and on those who had betrayed
them. In the "Great Eastern Lodge Scandal" of France in 1992, and in the
"Clean Hands" operation in England, reported in the English press in

1995, the activities of Masonic lodges in the interests of illegal profit be-
came clear. The Masons' idea of "humanist morality" is only a sham.
That such a thing should happen is inevitable, because, as we said at
the beginning, morality is only established in society by the moral disci-
pline of religion. At the basis of morality lies the absence of arrogance and
selfishness, and the only ones who can achieve this state are those who re-
alize their responsibility to Allah. In the Qur'an, after Allah tells of believ-
ers' self-sacrifice, He commands "…It is the people who are safe-guarded
from the avarice of their own selves who are successful." (Surat al-

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