Excerpt from Mr. Adnan Oktar's live interview on Kocaeli TV and Mavi Karadeniz TV, December 1st, 2009
ADNAN OKTAR: I consider the enmity felt against Jews and Christians really grievous, since in any case, they are the people who have faith in Allah, who believe in the prophets. Aren't they? They believe in angels. I mean, it is very grievous that, some people, as if there is no one else in the world, take the people having faith in Allah as enemies. In the times of our Prophet (may Allah bless him and grant him peace), they were treated with compassion and love. They were used to be protected them, watched over. Muslims used to take them to their destinations in safety. Such abnormal attitude emerged only long after. That is, the enmity against Jews, the enmity against Christians... That is a sin and a shame. It is a very aberrant attitude. Everyone will live by their own religions. Muslims will live by their own religions and they [Jews] will live by their own religion. The appraisal belongs to Allah. Allah will appraise their situation in the Hereafter.
Moreover, it is a great cruelty to oppress people of other beliefs, even if they are communists, freemasons. It is cruelty to inflict pain on them or to hate them, to make their lives unbearable. These people [Jews] go somewhere, and they are told to leave. When they go somewhere else, they are again told to leave. So where will they go? They will not end up in the space, right?... They are the servants of Allah. They should be treated with compassion. I find it important to stress this point. I attach importance to this subject insha'Allah.
TARKAN YAVAS: Masha’Allah, our guests are very much full of love. Masha’Allah. They are very much full of love and respect.
ADNAN OKTAR: Yes masha’Allah. They were also very loving before they went. They all have high education. They all have careers. Some are engineers, some in high rank duties. But they are also Rabbis. That is excellent. That is also how a Muslim should be. I mean having a high education, a high level of general culture and if a man of religion, he should be able to perform his duties as a man of religion. That is the reasonable and beautiful thing to do.
ADNAN OKTAR: That is really unbelievable. Why should those immaculate, persecuted people be killed? Allah had named them, He named them the People of the Book. The Almighty Allah states that they will exist, He says there will be Christians and Jews. That is what Qur’an states, what Almighty Allah states. I mean they are not a group of non-existent people, they are a group that does and did exist. They were there in the times of our Prophet (pbuh). Thus within the community of the Turkish Islamic Union, they will be first class citizens. The Muslims, Christians and Jews will all be treated with compassion. Why ever should they be oppressed? Why would there be attempts to oppress them, to drive them from one place to another, to make them suffer? It is not right to do that to anyone.
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