ADNAN OKTAR’S LIVE INTERVIEW ON KRAL KARADENİZ TV (20 February 2009)
ADNAN OKTAR: Freemasonry is a very ancient organization, but it really goes back to the time of Lamarck. It goes back some 175 years.
REPORTER: To around 1745.
ADNAN OKTAR: Yes. That idea also developed at the time when those fanatical materialist thinkers were coming up with Darwinism. That is during the reign of Sultan Mahmut II. The time when efforts toward modernization were going on.
REPORTER: During the time when the Ottoman Empire was rising.
ADNAN OKTAR: No, during its collapse.
REPORTER: After the time of Sulayman the Lawmaker.
ADNAN OKTAR: Of course. Those were years when we were constantly going backward. The most important thing in those days was the way Ottoman intellectuals lost their faith. The great majority of Ottoman intellectuals adopted Darwinist, materialist views, particularly after the appearance of Marx and Hegels.
ADNAN OKTAR: They entirely lost their faith. And many of them became masons. The late Sultan Abdülhamit made great efforts but there was nothing he could do. They moved inside the court and occupied the most important positions there, right up to the management of the palace. Then, as you know, they removed Abdülhamit from the throne, and then split up and fragmented the Ottoman Empire.
That demolition did not satisfy them, and they have now set about dividing Turkey in two. But it is now time for Turkey to rise up.
There was something they failed to include in their calculations. Hazrat Mahdi (as) has appeared. And the coming of the Prophet Jesus (as) is imminent. Not even the combined power of all the masons and all atheist zionists can overcome Hazrat Mahdi (as). By Allah’s leave, Hazrat Mahdi (as) will rout them all and you will see they are not strong enough to oppose him, and they will have no salvation from him, insha’Allah.