Mr. Adnan Oktar explains what jihad (striving) means in Islam

Mr. Adnan Oktar explains what jihad means in Islam

(Indo Asian News Agency (IANS) - November 14^th, 2008)

LALIT K. JHA: Thank you. Can we shift to another topic? Radical Islam, Islamism. Being an Islamic leader, all over the world you see this increasing trend of what the Western media say about Islamic radicalism. In Pakistan, Afghanistan and in other parts of the world... The growth of Taliban, al-Qaida. What is your opinion about all these issues?

ADNAN OKTAR: Islam has a spirit, an essence and purpose. This is compassion, mercy, love, cooperation, forgiveness, happiness, joy, adorning the surroundings, having love towards everything, and to seek Allah's compassion above everything. Every organisation and each endeavor failing to accomplish these do not act in compliance with the spirit of Islam. Consequently, they are erroneous thoughts. Having this condense information, it is possible to discern between what is normal and deviant.

LALIT K. JHA: So, from this what I get in essence is that you don't support al-Qaida, al-Taliban, the way they are progressing towards the concept of jihad.

ADNAN OKTAR: Essentiallly there is jihad in Islam, jihad means "to strive, to make effort". That is to say, one approaches people with love and compassion. One convinces them with scientific and intellectual evidence. One tells them the love of Allah, the beauties of the Qur'an and its righteous aspects. One tells the invalidity of Darwinism, materialism, and the malice of fascism and communism. That is the "jihad", that is to say, beating someone in the head is not jihad. 

The PKK is a Marxist-Leninist and Stalinist communist organization

THE PKK IS A MARXIST-LENINIST AND STALINIST COMMUNIST ORGANIZATION

The PKK terror going on in the southeast of Turkey today is actually communist terror in the flesh. Statements by the head of the separatist organization make this perfectly clear.

For example, in his message to celebrate the 13th anniversary of the founding of the separatist organization, its leader said:

“As the best answer to those who say, ‘Socialism has collapsed, communism has collapsed’ we are saying, ‘On the contrary, THE MOST POWERFUL, TRUEST AND GREATEST FORM OF COMMUNISM HAS TAKEN PLACE IN THE PKK.’”

A speech on May 1, 1982, represents one of the many occasions on which the leader of the separatist organization openly states that the PKK is a Marxist-Leninist organization:

"No matter what unsuitable conditions it may live under, IT MUST BE BASED on the objective force of the working class, and ON MARXISM-LENINISM, its science and guide to action; AND NOTE THAT THE REASON FOR OUR EXISTENCE IS TOTALLY GROUNDED IN THAT FACT... If those tribal walls, those feudal fences had not been breached, MARXISM-LENINISM, THE MODERN AND THE MOST REVOLUTIONARY WAY OF THINKING would never have entered our heads.”

They themselves say that their party is a communist party, and all the laws of communism are set out and clarified in the party constitution. They make communist propaganda day and night. (From Mr. Adnan Oktar's interview on June 16, 2010, on Samsun Aks and TV Kayseri)

Every action, every slogan and every declaration by the terrorist organization is communist. Striking statements at the organization’s founding conference and on its web site makes their devotion to Marxism perfectly clear: 

"MARXIST-LENINIST THEORY MUST BE TAKEN TO HEART. Leading cadres must frequently refer to Marxism, they must take that teaching to heart in order to make the implementation of Marxism their starting point... WE WILL ADOPT SOCIALISM RATHER AS A GUIDE TO ACTION IN THE RESOLUTION OF THE POLITICAL PROBLEM. As the representatives of such a teaching, and the adherents of such a teaching, we shall do our duty by applying it, as the most important precondition of the teaching, to the question of the political administration of the country and AS A MEANS OF and guide to BRINGING DOWN THE EXISTING ADMINISTRATION.”

Adnan Oktar: … PKK terrorism in Turkey is one of the major communist uprisings in the world today. It is the greatest communist uprising in the history of the Turkish Republic. It is a Marxist-Leninist-Stalinist uprising... (From Mr. Adnan Oktar’s interview on July 21, 2008, on Amasya TV)

The fact that the organization has a Marxist-Leninist structure is made clear both in indictments by prosecutors and in Turkish Intelligence MIT reports and in rulings by the courts. Indeed, the fact that for many years the organization used the hammer and sickle motif, the best known symbol of communism, on its flag is sufficient proof of this. The emblem was then altered by the organization for strategic and tactical reasons.

Abdullah Öcalan, the leader of the separatist organization, says that the PKK’s ideological foundation is based on Marxism and Leninism in another statement:

“The PKK has experienced a development in line with the Marxist-Leninist tradition. It is clear that from then on it will take shape on the basis of that legacy, which is inseparable in the way that flesh is joined to bone.” (Kurdistan’da Halk Kahramanligi [Popular Heroism in Kurdistan], Istanbul, March 2004, p. 78)

“LENIN REPRESENTED IT IN THE 1900S, AND I REPRESENT THE 21ST-CENTURY SOCIALISM, and I am building the new socialism by fighting real socialism and imperialism.” (Ozgur Yasamla Diyaloglar [Dialogues with Free Life], p. 201)

Apo [Abdullah Öcalan] does what Lenin said. The communists in the southeast are doing what Lenin said. It is a religion and they are applying that religion. They are observing the practices of the Marxist-Leninist religion. (From Mr. Adnan Oktar's interview on July 1, 2011, on A9 TV and Kaçkar TV; 00:30)

Öcalan, the separatist leader, praises the bloodthirsty communist leaders who slaughtered millions of people:

"THE HEROES OF THE PROLETARIAT, MARX AND ENGELS. ITS THEORETICAL AND POLITICAL GENIUS, LENIN, and ITS PRACTICAL MASTERS, STALIN, HO CHI MINH AND MAO. And many national and internationalist heroes marching under their leadership. These great heroes who stir up and organize mankind’s consciousness of freedom, and produce the armies known as people’s armies, occupy a truly great place in the history of mankind.” (Kurdistan’da Halk Kahramanligi [Popular Heroism in Kurdistan], p. 87)

Like the communist leaders he so admires, the leader of the separatist organization ruthlessly resorts to violence and terror. Because that is what Marxism, Leninism and Darwinism they base their ideology on command. Lenin explicitly stated that terror is an inseparable component of communist ideology:

“The phenomenon in which we are interested is THE ARMED STRUGGLE. It is conducted by individuals and by small groups. ... Armed struggle pursues two different aims, which must be strictly distinguished: in the first place, THIS STRUGGLE AIMS AT ASSASSINATING INDIVIDUALS, CHIEFS AND SUBORDINATES IN THE ARMY AND POLICE; in the second place, it aims at the confiscation of monetary funds both from the government and from private persons.” (V. I. Lenin, September 30, 1906, Proletary, No. 5)

In other words, he says, of course we will bomb everywhere, kill people and shed blood, and asks, “is this not what communism necessitates?” (From. Mr. Adnan Oktar’s interview on June 25, 2010, on Kocaeli TV)

Lenin describes how indispensible terror and anarchy are for communism again in another passage:

"WE CANNOT REJECT TERROR, as it is the one form of military action which may be perfectly suitable or even essential at a definite juncture in battle.” (V. I. Lenin: "Where to Begin," in Collected Works, Volume 5, Moscow, 1961, p. 19)

What does Lenin say? He says there is but one way for Marxism, Leninism to be put into practice, only one way. By terror, he says. Violence. Revolutionary violence, meaning communist violence. He says it is not possible for communism to spread over the world without terror. It cannot spread without violence, he says. He says you cannot establish the dictatorship of the proletariat without killing police and gendarmes, bombing police stations, robbing banks and breaking into rich people's homes, killing them and stealing their money. He says the only way to the dictatorship of the proletariat, for communism to grow, for a Marxist, communist movement to grow, is through terror. He says that if you do the opposite, you are deviating from the Marxist, Leninist line. (From Mr. Adnan Oktar's interview on June 16, 2010, on Samsun Aks and TV Kayseri)

The PKK primarily teaches those it will raise as terrorists dialectical materialism, and Darwinism, the basis of this philosophy. There is no ethnic movement here, only a communist and irreligious one. The impression of Kurdish nationalism is entirely intended to mislead the people of the region. That is why a very powerful anti-Darwinist, anti-materialist and anti-communist intellectual propaganda in all of Turkey is so necessary. There can be no materialism where there is no Darwinism. And there can be no communism where there is no materialism. There can be no PKK where there is no communism. The solution to the PKK is the elimination of Darwinism, materialism and communism.

There is one solution: anti-materialist and anti-communist scientific activity. Once that is done, the communists’ jugular vein will be ripped open. What is the solution to an ideology? Eliminating the ideology. The only answer is to eliminate the belief. And that requires scientific activity. It will totally resolve the issue and end it. In a very short space of time. (From Mr. Adnan Oktar's interview on August 3, 2011)

They seek a solution to terror, to the PKK. There are 100 diseases, but only one cure. The whole world is now sick. But it can be cured with one single medicine. These 100 diseases will all disappear when a Turkish-Islamic Union is established. (From Mr. Adnan Oktar's interview on August 6, 2011)

Without Darwin terrorism is almost impossible

Without Darwin terrorism is almost impossible

(BBC 4, October 8^th, 2010)

ANDREW MARR: You argue not only that Darwin is unscientific, but also that he is a danger, that he is a danger when it comes to war and terrorism zone. Can you explain a little bit more about why you think that?

ADNAN OKTAR: Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin and Lenin and many other famous terrorists and the present time terrorists all clearly say that they have been under the influence of Darwin himself. Hitler has clear statements about it, Mussolini clearly stated it. Stalin, Lenin and Marx, they have, each of them, clearly stated that they have been influenced by Darwin. Without Darwin terrorism is almost impossible.

ANDREW MARR: What about today's terrorists like Al-Qaeda and so on for instance who would say that they are motivated by a bit extreme religious views?

ADNAN OKTAR: When we look at the members of such terrorist groups like Al-Qaeda, we will see that in their youths they have been mostly educated in the USA or in Europe and that they have undergone Darwinist education, that they have completely embraced Darwinist way of thinking. Later on in their lives, they get into terror and try to reconcile terror with the religion. This is in fact an utter deception. A person who genuinely loves and fears Allah feels great joy. He loves people very much and he meticulously avoids hurting people. He has fear of Allah and knows that he will give an account of his deeds on the Day of Judgment. But these terrorists have no such sense. On the other hand these people can bomb everyone, women and children with the blink of an eye and their consciences are very easy about that. It is evident that these people are not of a character that can be reconciled with religion.

Those who throw bombs on innocent people and slaughter them represent one of the thoughts that do harm to Islam. Striving on the path of Islam means communicating Islam with love and compassion.

The origins of terror

THE ORIGINS OF TERROR

(From Mr. Adnan Oktar's live interview on Adıyaman Asu TV and Kral Karadeniz TV, November 30^th, 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR: Let me provide a bit of information about the origins of terrorism. Let me explain the roots of PKK terrorism, which do not lie in a lack of soup or an inability to get married. Marx, the founding father of communism, says, “If there were no conflict, everything would stay the same.” In other words, thesis and antithesis. The Marxist idea is that “when an idea, a thesis, is popular in society, a diametrically opposed idea, or antithesis, will gradually emerge. A new idea again, a synthesis, will emerge from the interaction of the two, and that process will continue in the form of thesis-antithesis-synthesis.” They say that conflict will go on uninterrupted.

The communist leader Lenin says, “Progress is the struggle between opposites.” He also said: “When some people condemn us for our cruelty we must not be amazed at how such people can forget even the most basic Marxist principles.” He says that cruelty is a Marxist principle. He said that in Pravda on 29 October, 1918. Lenin said, “We never have rejected terror as a principle, and never shall.” Another extract from Lenin: “Some people must undertake to kill or attack a police station, and some must rob banks.” In the 2005 edition of his book On Theoretical and Practical Terror, Lenin tells people to “kill the police, soldiers and civil servants, and to start fires in official institutions.” That is what they did. “Take money from the state’s coffers; revolutionary communist forces will not be defeated, but must emerge as an armed force.” Just like the PKK, because that is a Stalinist, communist organization, too. “Spreading fear by killing and bombing people and blowing up buildings, and thus representing the communist dictatorship in society are important elements of our coming to power.” In other words, we cannot come to power in any other way, he means.

These methods I have just described are the reasons for the growth of the PKK in the east. Lenin says; “We are definitely not opposed to political killings. Only individual terrorist movements directly linked to the masses are of any value. If the masses rise up on their own”, Lenin says, “they cannot succeed”. Vladimir Ilich Lenin says, “We cannot get anywhere if we do not put a bullet into their heads when we apply terror” on page 311 of volume 35 of his book. “The state under the hegemony of the proletariat is a machine for crushing the bourgeoisie.” That means the rich, capital. “The dictatorship is rule based directly on violence and not restricted in any way.” In other words, we recognize no rules when we resort to violence. “The revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat exists thanks to the violence inflicted on the bourgeoisie by the proletariat.” In other words, they regard the AKP [ruling Justice and Development Party] as a bourgeois party. And other parties, too. And that is how they think of the people there. “It is a rule that survives and cannot be restricted by any law,” they say. Look, “it is a rule that survives thanks to the violence inflicted on the bourgeoisie by the proletariat.” It could not survive otherwise, they say. They mean it is violence that keeps them alive. “It cannot be restricted by any law.” Lenin says they recognize no legal code, on page 53 of The Proletarian Revolution.

The German racist who taught Hitler and who made Hitler what he says: “Nations can only progress through intense competition resembling Darwin’s fight for survival.” You can see the influence of Darwinism everywhere. Mao, for example, says, “Revolution is an uprising and rebellion with which one class overthrows another.” (Little Red Book, chapter 2). The communist leader Trotsky; “It will be resolved by resorting to violence of all kinds.” He says that is how they will achieve their aims. “Red terror is a weapon to be used against a class that is condemned to die and cannot bear with it.” Look, they have condemned the people to death, they have decided, and the red terror is a weapon to be used against a class that is condemned to die and cannot bear with it. Since they are unwilling, he says, “we will do it”. “We will do the killing”, he says.

We therefore have to fight them on the intellectual level. They are waging a struggle of ideas; they talk and describe their ideas and write books. What will happen if we let them set their ideas out unilaterally without responding?

The response to be made will of course set out the errors of dialectical thinking and the errors of Darwinism, and all Marxist and fascist systems are in any case based on Darwinism. Neither fascist nor communist systems will remain once Darwinism collapses; therefore, the real question in the Southeast [of Turkey] is the demolition of Darwinism. In other words, if Darwinism is demolished intellectually, communism will collapse as a direct result, and there will be no need to trouble ourselves with it. Communism will collapse of its own accord. But so long as Darwinism survives, communism and fascism will remain alive, too. The answer lies in an intellectual struggle, insha’Allah.

ISLAM DENOUNCES TERRORISM

Introduction (Generic)

The terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, cost the lives of thousands of innocent people.

This terrible savagery once more revealed a great danger to the peace and brotherhood of man: Terrorism.

Terrorism General

Terrorism is a crime against humanity. It targets innocent people. Its aim is to spread fear in society by killing people, and thus to draw strength for its political wishes.

Different ideologies have resorted to terrorism in the past:

The Jacobins, who carried out the French Revolution, first used the concept of terrorism during ‘The period of terror’ when thousands of people were sent to the guillotine.

From the 1870s on, the racist Ku Klux Klan in the United States ruthlessly tortured and killed many people just because they were black.

Racist terrorism came to be state policy in Nazi Germany during the 1930s. The Nazis implemented a bloody policy of terror against all those they saw as opposed to them, beginning with the Jews.

During those same years, another ideology also implemented state terrorism. Some 40 million people were killed during Stalin’s bloody reign in the Soviet Union for falling foul of communist ideology.

Communist terrorism emerged in Europe in the 1960s. This time, organizations opposed to the state began shedding blood. The Red Brigades in Italy and the Red Army Fraction in Germany carried out numerous bombings, armed attacks and killings.

The coming together of communist terrorism with separatist aspirations gave rise to even more bloodthirsty organizations. The bloodiest communist and terrorist groups were ETA in Spain and the PKK, which organized in Turkey and ruthlessly killed some 30,000 people.

It is a quite natural consequence that racism, fascism or communism should give rise to terrorism. That is because each of these ideologies believes that conflict and violence are natural forms of human behaviour. In racist, fascist or communist theory, terrorism is encouraged and seen as justified.

In recent years, however, another form of terrorism has come onto the world agenda, although this is a totally contradictory concept: ‘Islamic terrorism.’

The concept is contradictory because there is no room for terrorism in Islam.

In the Koran, God commands all Muslims to bring peace, harmony and brotherhood to the world.

Islamic morality is not the cause of terrorism, but the solution to it…

Islamic Morality

The word Islam comes from the same Arabic root as the word peace.

God has revealed this religion to invite all of mankind to the true path and call them to peace and harmony.

The fundamental characteristics of Islamic morality are virtues such as love, compassion, sacrifice, tolerance, forgiveness and justice. In the Koran, God commands Muslims to treat all people well and fairly. Muslims are charged with displaying a virtuous morality to members of other religions and work for their good. In one verse of the Koran, it is said to the Muslims:

You are the best nation ever to be produced before mankind. You enjoin the right, forbid the wrong and believe in God. (The Koran, 3:110)

In another verse, God commands Muslims to “respond to evil with goodness”:

A good action and a bad action are not the same. Repel the bad with something better and, if there is enmity between you and someone else, he will be like a bosom friend. (The Koran, 41:34)

Bloodshed, war and cruelty are terrible sins condemned by God. In one holy verse, God has this to say to those who commit these sins: ‘There are only grounds against those who wrong people and act as tyrants in the earth without any right to do so. Such people will have a painful punishment.’ (The Koran, 42:42 )

According to Islam, killing innocent people is one of the most terrible sins possible. So much so that another holy verse says: ‘… if someone kills another person – unless it is in retaliation for someone else or for causing corruption in the earth – it is as if he had murdered all mankind.’ (The Koran, 5:32 )

This importance attached to human life in the Koran has been seen throughout the history of Islam, beginning with the days of the Prophet. Our prophet took the greatest care to protect the lives of innocent people. He never began a war except for defensive reasons. Even then he warned his commanders that not one innocent person should be harmed, and ordered that churches and synagogues should be respected. This justice and tolerance were manifested throughout the history of Islam, and Christians and Jews found the toleration and peace they could not find in European states of the time in Muslim lands.

For this reason, Islam is a religion of peace and harmony. The duty of a Muslim is to behave kindly and justly to all people and to struggle against cruelty in the world.

At the head of these comes terrorism: one of the greatest scourges of our time.

Terrorism

Terrorism attacks innocent people who have done nothing wrong.

It mercilessly slaughters little children…

It leaves others orphaned…

It destroys cities and kills families, inflicting suffering on millions of people.

Moreover, some terrorists carry out this evil in the so-called name of Islam, and blacken the name of Islam in the eyes of many people.

The people who did this cannot be Muslims.

Even if the terrorists have Muslim identities, the terrorism they perpetrated cannot be labeled ‘Islamic terrorism,’ just as it would not be called ‘Jewish terrorism’ if the perpetrators were Jews or ‘Christian terrorism’ if they were Christians. That is because murdering innocent people in the name of religion is unacceptable.

Religion commands love, mercy and peace. Terrorism, on the other hand, is the opposite of religion: it is cruel, merciless and brings bloodshed and misery.

Terrorism is a tool employed by racists, fascists and communists: in short, all those ideologies that reject religion and religious morality.

There is no room for terrorism in religion. As it is said in one Koranic verse, “God does not love wrongdoers” (The Koran, 3:140). In another verse, those who resort to terrorism, that is, who cause corruption in the earth are referred to in this way:

“As for those cause corruption in the earth, the curse will be upon them. They will have the Evil Abode.” (The Koran, 13:25)

For that reason, all true Muslims must stand up against terrorism.

They must tell and demonstrate to the whole world that:

Islam is a religion of peace and love, and that

Islam Denounces Terrorism.