An Invitation to the Truth?
So for those of you who haven’t heard of him, I stumbled across the website of Harun Yahya, a prominent Turkish author who has attracted the attention of Muslim intellectuals. His real name is actually Adnan Oktar (if anyone plans to look him up a bit) and he is an advocate for Islamic creationism – ie. the belief that the universe was created by Allah (swt) as explained in the Qur’an. He currently runs two organizations: (1) Foundation to Protect National Values which focuses on moral issues and (2) Bilim Araştırma Vakfı Science Research Foundation which promotes Islamic creationism. The latter he was actually sentenced to 3 years in prison (in Turkey) for organizing. According to reports he had created the organization for personal gain. I decided to look him up on wikipedia and found some disturbing and odd information about him (BUT WE ALL KNOW THAT ANYONE CAN POST INFO ON WIKIPEDIA :p). According to his wiki page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adnan_Oktar) he is a paranoid schizophrenic (a diagnosis which has been concluded 7 times between 1983-93) and his organizations are cult-like as he does have a group of followers and he published a book called “The Holocaust Lie” in which he basically says that “what is presented as Holocaust is the death of some Jews due to the typhus plague during the war and the famine towards the end of the war caused by the defeat of the Germans.” So yeah…dunno about this guy. Anyways, I didn’t want to waste my research and not do a blog post but perhaps you can go take a look at his website (http://www.harunyahya.com/index.php). Like I previously mentioned, he is an advocate of Islamic creationism so his website totally refutes Darwin’s theory of evolution amongst many other things.
Hilary