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Creationist Adnan Oktar wins ban on Richard Dawkins site
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1.       Trudy
7887 posts
 21 Sep 2008 Sun 10:53 am

A Muslim creationist has succeeded in having Richard Dawkins’s website banned in Turkey, after complaining that its atheist content was blasphemous. The country’s internet users are now subject to a court order imposed on Turk Telecom that prohibits them from accessing richarddawkins.net.


 


The court in Istanbul issued its judgment after Adnan Oktar claimed that his book Atlas of Creation, which contests the arguments for evolution, had been defamed on Dawkins’s website.


 


In July Professor Dawkins wrote on his site: “I am at a loss to reconcile the expensive and glossy production values of this book with the breath-taking inanity of the content.”


Earlier this year Mr Oktar, who uses the pen name Harun Yahya, tried to have Dawkins’s book The God Delusion banned in Turkey but failed. He is also appealing against a three-year prison sentence for creating an illegal organisation for personal gain.



Source: http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/09/20/creationist-adnan-oktar-wins-ban-on-richard-dawkins-site/


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YouTube banned several times, this site banned, what´s next? {#lang_emotions_confused}

2.       Daydreamer
3743 posts
 21 Sep 2008 Sun 11:09 am

 

Quoting Trudy

YouTube banned several times, this site banned, what´s next? {#lang_emotions_confused}

 

TLC lol

 

But, seriously, why don´t Turks start civil trials for the violation of their rights? If somebody considers atheism blasphemy, somebody else may consider Islam blasphemy and demand banning Islamic sources. This is a vicious circle, all online content may be considered improper by some people.

3.       tamikidakika
1346 posts
 21 Sep 2008 Sun 05:26 pm

 

YouTube banned several times, this site banned, what´s next? {#lang_emotions_confused}

 

harun yahya is banned as well. he is in jail.

4.       WarTrain
325 posts
 21 Sep 2008 Sun 05:50 pm

It is very weird to find a country that bans both headscarfs in schools and atheist websites at the same time!  How do Kemalists justify such a ban?

 

Evolution is not a theory it is fact.  Most muslim intellectuals agree and argue that evolution can be integrated into the Quran.

5.       tamikidakika
1346 posts
 21 Sep 2008 Sun 06:14 pm

 

Quoting WarTrain

It is very weird to find a country that bans both headscarfs in schools and atheist websites at the same time! How do Kemalists justify such a ban?

 

Evolution is not a theory it is fact. Most muslim intellectuals agree and argue that evolution can be integrated into the Quran.

 

Kemalists don`t need to justify that because the decision is taken by the puppets of akp not Kemalists.

6.       WarTrain
325 posts
 21 Sep 2008 Sun 06:15 pm

 

Quoting tamikidakika

Kemalists don`t need to justify that because the decision is taken by the puppets of akp not Kemalists.

 

Ahhh hello Tam

But those puppeteers working the strings are the Kemalists - let us not forget it

 

Until they lose their paranoia and allow complete democracy, they have to accept responsibility for any governments actions!

7.       tamikidakika
1346 posts
 21 Sep 2008 Sun 06:32 pm

{#lang_emotions_laugh_at}{#lang_emotions_laugh_at}

Quoting WarTrain

 

But those puppeteers working the strings are the Kemalists - let us not forget it

 

 

 

it seems like you`re still living in the 90`s. Can you tell us which "Kemalist institution" it is that pulls the strings of the puppet? Honestly I don`t see such an institution. No Kemalist would take such a decision in favor of this Harun Yeahyeah orangutan

8.       WarTrain
325 posts
 21 Sep 2008 Sun 06:38 pm

 

Quoting tamikidakika

{#lang_emotions_laugh_at}{#lang_emotions_laugh_at}

Quoting WarTrain

 

But those puppeteers working the strings are the Kemalists - let us not forget it

 

 

 

it seems like you`re still living in the 90`s. Can you tell us which "Kemalist institution" it is that pulls the strings of the puppet? Honestly I don`t see such an institution.

 

Really?  Strange because I seem to remember that "someone" took the present government to court earlier this year. 

 

The military (as far as I am aware) is still not under the rule of the elected government, and has overthrown four civilian governments in the last 50 years.

 

Please also advise me who bans any unsavoury talk about Ataturk?  The AKP? 

 

Please correct me if I am wrong

 

9.       WarTrain
325 posts
 21 Sep 2008 Sun 06:46 pm

 

 Can you tell us which "Kemalist institution" it is that pulls the strings of the puppet? Honestly I don`t see such an institution.

 

Ermmmm maybe the Ergenekon gang?

10.       tamikidakika
1346 posts
 21 Sep 2008 Sun 06:51 pm

 

Quoting WarTrain

Really? Strange because I seem to remember that "someone" took the present government to court earlier this year.

 


 

and what happened at the end? that "someone" you`re referring to is just a prosecutor who legally has rights to take the government to court. he is not god or the secret ruler of Turkey.

 

Quote:

The military (as far as I am aware) is still not under the rule of the elected government, and has overthrown four civilian governments in the last 50 years.

 


see, that`s why I`m saying you`re living in the past(it`s not 4 but 3 btw).{#lang_emotions_lol_fast}, and it`s not the army who makes decisions about judicial issues.

 

 

Quote:

Please also advise me who bans any unsavoury talk about Ataturk? The AKP?

 

Please correct me if I am wrong

it`s the Turkish constitution which bans insulting Ataturk, not a "secret Kemalist  institution"

 

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