DR. MORDECHAI KEDAR: Another question which is connected to current issues is the fact that many Christians which you kindly mentioned are actually running away from all the countries in the Middle East. We see them running away from Syria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan and from many other places and the population of Christians in the Middle East today is like half as what it was until about ten years ago. What can be said about this?

ADNAN OKTAR:This for instance is a very major persecution, it is a grave immorality. It is cruelty. Allah entrusts them to us. They are under the protection of Muslims. Allah will ask the account of that from Muslims. When Christians from Najran visited our Prophet (saas), he used to take his cloak off and lay it under them and he showed them utmost love and compassion. Allah has specifically given special commands in the Qur'an about them. Muslims can marry [women from] the People of the Book; I mean Muslims can marry both Christian and Jewish women, those are ladies from the People of the Book. And Muslims treat them kindly and compassionately. I mean you know how fond would a man be of his spouse, how respectful would he be. That is because she is the mother of his children. Would he ever make a mistake in respect? He would not. Consequently her visiting the church or a synagogue is not something that would bother a Muslim. Everyone is free in his thought and belief. Consequently we are of course condemning the persecution carried out. We say that this is an abnormal act, an act of the dajjal. We regard it very important to ensure that there will be no interference to the belief of neither Christians, nor Jews or of people from any other faith.

DR. MORDECHAI KEDAR: Thank you very much for this idea.