Just the beginning.
Wait until 30 or 50 innocent true-humans are blown-up on a New York
City street!
As Islam becomes ever more evil, crazed -- and determined to destroy
we infidels, i.e., all non-Muzzies. And even many Muzzies, especially
"wayward" women.
If the FBI and the CIA were competent (recall they failed Americans on
9/11), those federal country clubs could be counted on to detect and
deter the terrorist plans that are doubtless in the works.
But no.
So look out!
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"In Turkey, fertile ground for creationism"
"U.S. critics of evolution help translate their ideas for a society
already torn between Islam and secularism"
By Marc Kaufman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, November 8, 2009
ISTANBUL -- Sema Ergezen teaches biology to Turkish students
interested in teaching science themselves, and she has long struggled
with her students' ignorance of, and sometimes hostility to, the
notion of evolution.
But she was taken aback when several of her Marmara University
students recently accused her of being an atheist, or worse, for
teaching anything but the doctrine that God created the Earth and
everything on it.
"They said I was a liar if I called myself a Muslim because I also
accepted evolution," she said.
What especially disturbed -- and amused -- the veteran professor was
that the arguments for creationism presented by some of the students
came directly from the country where she was educated in the
biological sciences years before -- the United States. Translated and
adapted for a Muslim society, the purported proofs that Darwinism and
evolution were wrong came directly from American proponents of
Christian creationism and its less overtly religious offshoot,
intelligent design.
Ergezen's experience has become increasingly common. While creationism
and intelligent design appear to be in some retreat in the United
States, they have blossomed within Muslim Turkey. With direct and
indirect help from American foes of evolution, similarly-minded Turks
have aggressively made the case that Charles Darwin's theory is
scientifically wrong and is the underlying source of most of the
world's conflicts because it excludes God from human affairs.
"Darwin is the worst Fascist there has ever been, and the worst racist
history has ever witnessed," writes Harun Yahya, the most assertive
and best-known critic of evolution in Turkey, and long a favorite of
more conservative American creationists.
The evolution-creationism battle is playing out against a backdrop of
a much larger conflict between the forces of secularism -- as
represented by the Turkish military and many of the country's more
educated citizens -- and forces, including the popular ruling party,
that want to make religion more important in national affairs. The
Islamic anti-evolution campaign is taking place in Turkey, and not
Egypt or Saudi Arabia, because it is the Muslim nation where evolution
has been taken most seriously. Like the Bible, the Koran says that God
created the Earth and everything on it, and in many Muslim nations
that ends the discussion.
But Turkey, which is officially secular, appears to be joining its
Muslim neighbors on evolution. A recent survey, quoted in a 2008
article in the American journal Science, found that fewer than 25
percent of Turks accepted evolution as an explanation of how modern
life came to be -- by far the lowest percentage of any developed
nation. In a year in which conferences worldwide are celebrating the
200th anniversary of Darwin's birth and his contribution to science,
the battle against Darwinian thinking in Turkey has become something
of a rout, even among aspiring science teachers.
To many Turkish scientists and educators, this is a worrisome
development. The founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, was
an advocate of science, education and, some say, even evolution.
Turkish science has been especially strong in the Muslim world. If
Turks close their minds to evolutionary thinking, advocates say, it
won't be long before religion and politics shut off other scientific
pursuits.
To John Morris, president of the Institute for Creation Research in
Dallas, however, the news could hardly be more encouraging.
"Why I'm so interested in seeing creationism succeed in Turkey is that
evolution is an evil concept that has done such damage to society,"
said Morris, a Christian who has led several searches for Noah's Ark
in eastern Turkey. Members of his group have addressed Turkish
conferences numerous times.
The Discovery Institute of Seattle, which researches and promotes
intelligent design as an alternative to creationism and evolution,
also sent speakers to Turkey after being invited by the Istanbul
municipal government in 2007. President Bruce Chapman said the
institute helped bring Turkish evolution critic Mustafa Akyol to a
2005 Kansas school board hearing on teaching critiques of evolution.
The most visible Turkish proponent of creationism is a former
journalist named Adnan Oktar, who writes and appears daily on his own
two-hour television show under the alias Harun Yahya. He and a
revolving group of about 30 writers and young scientists have produced
more than 200 widely distributed books and videos attacking evolution
as equivalent to atheism, communism and worse.
In 2006, Oktar created an international stir when he sent a book of
high-quality fossil images to biology teachers worldwide. Published on
almost 800 pages of glossy stock, the "Atlas of Creation" sets out to
show that creatures today are essentially the same as those that
lived, and became fossilized, eons ago -- an argument also found in
American creationism. The source of funding for the book, which
emphasizes North American fossil finds, remains murky.
Speaking in his home and television studio overlooking the Bosporus,
Oktar asserted responsibility for "defeating" Darwinism in Turkey and
said that Americans had helped him do it. But as he sees it, the
student has become the teacher. He has created a far-reaching anti-
evolution empire, he said, while American creationists and advocates
of intelligent design still struggle to be heard.
The 53-year-old Oktar, dressed entirely in white, said he is not a
scientist but an author "following the path of Allah." He said that by
aggressively attacking evolution, he has drawn persecution in the form
of lawsuits, legal cases and police torture. He is awaiting a ruling
on an appeal of his conviction last year on charges that his group --
which some in Turkey liken to a cult -- had become a criminal,
moneymaking enterprise.
Being an advocate for evolution in Turkey has its costs, too. Aykut
Kence, who earned his doctorate in evolutionary biology in the United
States and now teaches at an Ankara university, has fought back-and-
forth lawsuits with Oktar for years. He began to take the creationists
seriously when they circulated leaflets with pictures of him and Mao
Zedong, publicly equating Kence's teaching of evolution to communism.
His defense of evolution, he said, has cost him government funding.
After a decade in the trenches, Kence said he believes aggressive
creationism "is part of a larger plan to convert people to a more
conservative Islam."
The Islamic-oriented government, elected in 2002 and reelected in
2007, has telegraphed its views on evolution by adding doses of
creationism to a required public school course on "Religion and
Morals," proponents of evolution say. This year, the editor of one of
the nation's prominent science journals, Science and Technology, was
fired by government officials over her magazine's plans to put Darwin
on its cover.
Some argue, however, that it is too early to write off Turkish science
as being under the thumb of religion. Salman Hameed, a professor of
science and humanities at Hampshire College in Massachusetts and
author of the 2008 Science article titled "Bracing for Islamic
Creationism," said secular forces remain strong in Turkey, which is
seeking membership in the European Union.
"I think it will be five to 10 years before Turks as a whole make up
their mind," he said. "The situation is quite worrisome, and that's
why I wrote the article. But I believe the issue is not settled at
this point."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/07/AR2009110702233.html
By PAMELA HESS and EILEEN SULLIVAN, Associated Press Writers Pamela
Hess And Eileen Sullivan, Associated Press Writers 43 mins ago
WASHINGTON – A radical American imam on Yemen's most wanted militant
list who had contact with two 9/11 hijackers praised alleged Fort Hood
shooter Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan as a hero on his personal Web site
Monday.
The posting on the Web site for Anwar al Awlaki, who was a spiritual
leader at two mosques where three 9/11 hijackers worshipped, said
American Muslims who condemned the attacks on the Texas military base
last week are hypocrites who have committed treason against their
religion.
Awlaki said the only way a Muslim can justify serving in the U.S.
military is if he intends to "follow in the footsteps of men like
Nidal."
"Nidal Hassan (sic) is a hero. He is a man of conscience who could not
bear living the contradiction of being a Muslim and serving in an army
that is fighting against his own people," Awlaki wrote.
Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, is accused of killing 13
and wounding 29 in a shooting spree Thursday. Hasan's family attended
the Dar al Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls Church, Va., where Awlaki
was preaching in 2001.
Hasan's mother's funeral was held at the Falls Church mosque on May
31, 2001, according to her obituary in the Roanoke Times newspaper,
around the same time two 9/11 hijackers worshipped at the mosque and
while Awlaki was preaching.
Awlaki is a native-born U.S. citizen who left the United States in
2002, eventually traveling to Yemen. He was released from a Yemeni
jail last year and has since gone missing. He is on Yemen's most
wanted militant list, according to three Yemeni security officials.
The officials say Awlaki was arrested in 2006 with a small group of
suspected al-Qaida militants in the capital San'a. They say he was
released more than a year later after signing a pledge he will not
break the law or leave the country. The officials spoke on condition
of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.
A former senior U.S. intelligence official said Awlaki is well known
in the intelligence community.
The Homeland Security Department's intelligence division became
concerned about Awlaki late last year when he published a new group of
violent lectures targeting U.S. audiences, according to a Jan. 22,
2009 intelligence note.
On Dec. 23, 2008, Awlaki, on his Web site, encouraged Muslims across
the world to kill U.S. troops in Iraq. Awlaki also used these postings
to declare his support for the Somali terrorist group, al-Shabaab,
according to the Homeland Security intelligence note, obtained by The
Associated Press.
In December of last year, Customs officials intercepted a flash drive
of Awlaki's lectures that his wife sent from Yemen to an Islamic
publishing house in Denver, the intelligence note said.
Awlaki told the FBI in 2001 that, before he moved to Virginia in early
2001, he met with 9/11 hijacker Nawaf al-Hazmi several times in San
Diego. Al-Hazmi was at the time living with Khalid al-Mihdhar, another
hijacker. Al-Hazmi and another hijacker, Hani Hanjour, attended the
Dar al Hijrah mosque in Virginia in early April 2001.
In his FBI interview, Awlaki denied ever meeting with al-Hazmi and
Hanjour while in Virginia.
He was investigated by the FBI in 1999 and 2000 after it was learned
that he may have been contacted by a possible procurement agent for
Osama bin Laden. During this investigation, the FBI learned that
Awlaki knew people involved in raising money for Hamas, a Palestinian
group on the U.S. State Department's terrorist list.
Imam Johari Abdul-Malik, outreach director at Dar al Hijrah, said he
did not know whether Hasan ever attended the mosque but confirmed that
the Hasan family participated in services there. Abdul-Malik said the
Hasans were not leaders at the mosque and their attendance was normal.
The Falls Church mosque is one of the largest on the East Coast, and
thousands of worshippers attend prayers and services there every week.
Abdul-Malik said it's a mistake for people to conflate regular
attendance at a mosque with extremism.
Many Muslims pray at the mosque multiple times a day, he said. "It's
part of family life. It's like going out for ice cream after dinner."
Faizul Khan, former imam of the Muslim Community Center in nearby
Silver Spring, Md., where Hasan also worshipped, said he was not aware
that Hasan had attended services at Dar al Hijrah but said it would
not be unusual for Hasan to attend more than one mosque concurrently.
Khan said he did not recall Hasan mentioning having been taught or
preached to by Awlaki.
The London Telegraph first reported the potential link between Hasan
and the mosque.
Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey said Sunday it's important for
the country not to get caught up in speculation about Hasan's Muslim
faith, and he has instructed his commanders to be on the lookout for
anti-Muslim reaction to the killings at the Texas post.
Casey said evidence to this point shows that Hasan acted alone. He
toured Fort Hood on Friday with Army Secretary John McHugh. Casey
appeared on ABC's "This Week" and CNN's "State of the Union."
Separately, the CIA denied an ABC News report saying that the agency
has refused to brief Congress on the case.
"This is a law enforcement investigation, in which other agencies, not
the CIA, have the lead. Any suggestion that the CIA refused to brief
Congress is flat wrong," said George Little, CIA spokesman.
Associated Press Writers Ben Nuckols, Devlin Barrett and Matthew
Barakat contributed to this story. AP reporter Ahmed al-Haj
contributed from San-a, Yamen.
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On the Net:
Dar al Hijrah Islamic Center: http://www.daralhijrah.net/
Anwar al Awlaki: http://www.anwar-alawlaki.com
CIA killed world-wide over 3 million humans. CIA is largest criminal
organization.
ulem uniciyan ciamiia deyip kahramanlik taslama;-> cia ne chi sekularo-
fasciszm yayladur;->>>
sit and think for a second:
how come your schools for psychology fail in front of some ignorant
bunch of terrorists supposed to be operating in some unknown caves of
Afghanistan?
have you asked yourself "What is wrong with our system, social,
political, legal, educational institutions?"
it is really cheap to put the blame on to some mythological entities
imagined to be living on the other side of the earth but that won't
solve your problem at home.
you know what you really don't want to get rid of those scape-goats
otherwise whom would you blame;->>>
Allah seni davul etsin pornocu! Tam arkasina dolaniyordum CIA'nin ki ona
hemen MI6 destegi verdin ibne :-)
ulem uniciyan, cia, mossad, mi6, mit, kgb, bilmem ne bunlar Anayasa
urunudur. Soz konusu sekularo-fascist anayasa/n olunca bunlar devede
kulak kalir;->>