Adnan Oktar
Adnan Oktar, the Turkish Muslim creationist who runs the dynamic Harun Yahya propaganda machine, has succeeded in blocking his fellow countrymen from accessing the website of Turkey’s third largest-selling newspaper. As the Guardian reports:
A court ruled that Turkish web users should be denied access to the Vatan site after deciding it had insulted Adnan Oktar, a prolific writer who has disputed the theory of evolution.
It is thought to be the first time a major Turkish newspaper has been blocked online, although around 850 sites are currently filtered.
Oktar, who last month successfully applied to have the website of the British evolutionist Richard Dawkins closed in Turkey, said he had been defamed in readers’ comments about stories on Vatan, a liberal publication which has often criticised him.
Harun Yahya now exercises a degree of power in Turkey, and influence in the wider world, that American creationists can only dream of. In addition to Richard Dawkins, it has succeded in blocking WordPress.com and, briefly last year, Google Groups. Its lavish-but-bollocks Atlas of Creation has become a major textbook throughout the Arab world and is also being pushed – at vast expense – at schools in the West.
Meanwhile, an interesting little scrap is going on between the anti-Muslim website Little Green Footballs and proponents of Intelligent Design. LGF claimed this summer that the main organ of ID, the Seattle-based Discovery Institute, vigorously supports Harun Yahya’s propaganda. The ID lobby – which has gone to a great deal of trouble to make itself respectable by lobbying the Vatican – has reacted with fury, as you can see from the Discovery Institute website. Protesting a bit too much, perhaps?
Proponents of Intelligent Design certainly do Yahya’s work for him, by spreading subtle pseudoscience that helps open minds to the proposals of hardline creationism. But is there a more direct connection? More research is needed…
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9 responses
According to Turkish Daily News (http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=117717):
“Vatan said http://www.gazetevatan.com had become the 61st site shut down by Oktar’s lawyers. Other sites include google.groups, Ek?i sözlük ? a Web site with user contributors, Süperpoligon and Antoloji.com.”
He looks like he’d make a great villain for the next Bond movie.
“insulted Adnan Oktar”
Insulted? Its really, really, time these stupid primitive people grew up, took responsibility for their own emotions, and stopped being violent towards others who provoke them with this rhetoric of the “insult”.
Insult? try this: Adnana Oktar you are a total, utter, complete and iredeemable CUNT and so are all Muslims who behave like petulant but violent children who feel they should get their own way all the time and never be challenged.
@Joe
LOL
HA HA HA HARUNYAHYA IS GOD!!!!! YOU NOT STOP HARUNYAHYA!!!!! HARUNYAHYA LIKE A TIDDLE WAVE !!!!!!
WHY YOU GET IRRITATE WHEN SCIENTIFRIC EVIDENSE AGAINST EVOLUSHUN IS SHOWN TO BE NOT THERE?
HA HA HA HARUNYAHYA IS GOD!!!!! YOU NOT STOP HARUNYAHYA!!!!! HARUNYAHYA LIKE A TIDDLE WAVE !!!!!!
WHY YOU GET IRRITATE WHEN SCIENTIFRIC EVIDENSE AGAINST EVOLUSHUN IS SHOWN TO BE NOT THERE?
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