Adnan Oktar A9 TV; August 3rd, 2015

They are trying to alienate people from religion. For instance they say, 'There is no music in religion.' People then take a dislike towards religion. What else? They say, 'There are no paintings in religion.' Laughing? They claim that it is unlawful as well. Well then my brother, are you trying to make people insane? According to their twisted minds, young girls are unable to put on makeup, they are unable to be sleek. Set them free, let them have fun and be beautiful. Instead, they are presenting a hellish life in the name of religion.

Some people keep asking, "Why didn't the moral values of Islam prevail?" You are presenting a hellish life to people in the name of Islam. The fact is that Islam means love, beauty, joy, happiness, pleasantness, honesty and cleanliness. So what are you doing? You are merely presenting them a hellish life. You forbade everything and you do that claiming that you are acting in the name of God. Do those limits you force onto people have any place in the Qur'an? No, they don't. You are simply cooking all those up yourself.

Radicals have no say in defeating Darwinism, which is the greatest movement of the antichrist of all times. There is no effort that scientifically defeats this movement of the antichrist, other than ours. There is no one else who preaches the message of God in this way, other than us. There might be some efforts here and there, but all of them remain weak when compared to ours.

Hatred towards radicals is also tactless. They have been brought up like this, they are sincerely bigoted, they do not act in a bigoted manner out of spite. They believe that radicalism is how religion is put into practice the best. I mean they imagine that they are acting in line with Islam by making life miserable for themselves, by turning the world into a living hell. They have the wrong information, so you have to teach them the truth with kindness.

Art ennobles the human soul, it beautifies people and is the urgent nutrient of human soul. Europe has realized this and put that into practice very early on. They have attained very nice results in the end. Radicals, on the other hand, have dealt one of the biggest blows by estranging the Islamic world from the arts.

The Islamic world is groveling right now because of their superstitions; they are ruined because of that. Radicalism brings along timidity. When that is the case, the bravery and self-reliance of the companions is not formed.

Our conservative Orthodox Muslim brothers assume that the Mahdi will come and see that the current radicalism as something very light and say, "What kind of bigotry is that? I will do a hundred times more of it." They believe that the world will be plunged into a pitch black darkness after him. The fact is however that Hazrat Mahdi will solve radicalism from the roots once and for all.

Some people assume that the bigotry that is going on right now will be reinforced ten-fold when Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh) appears. That is not the case. The bigotry that is going on right now will be cleared out and a normal, humane life style will be embraced.

A modern, enlightened, loving Islam, that is based on love will prevail in the world. They should not struggle in vain other than that. It is not possible to attain any results without a modern understanding of Islam.

Once you get dragged into the swamp of traditionalism it is like a bottomless pit which contaminates you more and more. Radicalism is an affliction that increases incrementally. One says, "I am a radical." The other says, "I am even more radical." They wallow into the most inconceivable filth in competing one another .

Islam will appear in the face of this world as an utterly modern, joyous, healthy system, open to science and arts, open to beauty and aesthetics. It will appear like Heaven. Islam will not be an environment full of filth and darkness, causing people to suffer, hanging people, chopping people up, far removed from aesthetics; it will not be an environment in which filthy people are living. God would not harm Islam like that and will not let Muslims harm Islam like that.

The world would never accept an understanding of Islam that is incompatible with human nature. First and foremost, God would not accept it: Every time they attempt to bring about such a corrupt, rotten, filthy understanding of religion that reminds one of Hell, God would degrade them, humiliate them, drag them on the ground and ruin them; let me state this openly. They should forget about it.

When religiousness decreased in Europe, their artistic power has faded as well. They are unable to create those beautiful statues and paintings anymore.

Violence begets terror, violence begets horror and by doing so you would be playing into the hands of irreligious people, into the hands of persecutors. Irreligiousness spreads in places where there is violence. Religion spreads in peaceful environments, in loving, compassionate environments.

Irreligiousness brings about egoism; egoism brings about pain, and pain brings about desperation, so they end up writhing in pain.

Some Muslims are oppressed due to disbelief, while others are so due to radicalism. The Mahdi will right these two wrongs.

If sincere people explained religion, people would have loved it and would be jubilant. Irreligion disturbs the mental health of people.

Some are in constant misery because of the torment God gives them. Negative words of these people only improve Muslims' rank in paradise.

Irreligion is quite widespread in Europe, yet had they known the real Islam they would have been very much impressed. Because of the false, traditional narrations of Islam, they keep away from religion.

People's eyes cannot take it if various abnormal attitudes pile up one over the other, brain cannot handle that, cells cannot take it. I look at such people and see that their cells rise against these abnormalities. Their flesh becomes scourged and their glances become disconcerted. Their voices and their logics become distorted as well.

I look at people in the streets and see that their eyes are all empty. Why is that? It is because they have jealousy on one side, cruelty on the other; they have lovelessness on one side and fear from others on the other; they fail to submit to God on one side, and they have a competitive soul on the other.

The emptiness and darkness of the lives of irreligious people is not something believers can understand.

Irreligiousness ruins people, it takes away happiness.

It is the painful outcome of irreligiousness that some try to oppress and harshly mistreat those ones they regard to be downtrodden.

It is a grave viciousness for the US to deliver weapons to the PYD-PKK. They should leave aside this insanity; they are acting unhinged. These people, the PKK, are communists, Stalinists while you are anti-communist. Why did you wage war in Vietnam, in Korea then? Why did you give such a struggle in Cambodia and Laos? If communism is that good, why have you been waging war against it all those years? They are acting really irrationally.