We posted a piece recently about creationist spammer Adnan Oktar aka “Harun Yahya”. His biography page provides a wealth of interesting information about the mysterious Turkish author. For example:
Adnan Oktar was first arrested and imprisoned, then transferred to the Bakirkoy Mental Hospital on the grounds of being mentally unhealthy and placed under observation in ward 14A, poorly maintained, filthy, and used to house the most dangerous inmates. Ward 14A could be entered only by passing through a number of locked iron doors, since killings among patients were viewed as nothing out of the ordinary. Adnan Oktar was chained to his bed by his ankles for six weeks and forcibly given drugs blurring consciousness. Young colleagues who managed to visit him witnessed that he had lost none of his determination and enthusiasm. Postgraduate students, nurses and even doctors were prohibited from seeing him, out of concerns that he would turn them to Islamic moral values.
And:
Again in mid-1991, certain circles made uneasy by his cultural activities made him the target of a conspiracy. At the time, he was preparing a most important manuscript on the history of Freemasonry and world-wide Masonic organizations. Police, searching the home he shared with his mother in Istanbul’s Ortakoy district, discovered a packet of cocaine in the very first book they opened-in a library of some 2,000 books!
Adnan Oktar was immediately detained in Izmir where he was together with a few friends, then transferred to the Istanbul Security Directorate, and after 62 hours, was sent to the Forensic Medicine Institution for drug testing. It was announced that Adnan Oktar’s blood showed a high level of a cocaine by-product.
However, all the evidence submitted later showed that this was nothing more than slander; and that the cocaine allegedly found in Adnan Oktar’s library was part of this conspiracy. Shortly before the arrest, he had felt that secret moves against him were afoot.
All very strange given this is what he has published on his own website.
His creationist material is bad enough but it’s when he writes about religion that things become just plain weird. For example, in Allah Is Known Through Reason, Yahya writes:
The materialistic and anti-religionist ideas that increasingly developed in the years that followed the French Revolution reached their peak in the 19th century. When we look at the leaders of this movement, we again come across freemasonry.
In addition, it is also worth noting that there were many Jews among these figures. This demonstrates that Jews who, in alliance with masons, strive to enfeeble Divine religions such as Christianity and Islam and hold the materialist world view, serve the same purpose on philosophical grounds.
He goes on to write about a number of famous philosophers, sociologists and historical figures:
When we look at the history of philosophy, we see that there are many other atheist and anti-religionist philosophers who are distinguished by virtue of their masonic identity. Among them are thinkers like David Hume, Holbach, Schelling, John Stuart Mill, Auguste Comte, the Marquis de Sade and sociologists like Emile Durkheim, Ferdinand Tönnies, Herbert Spencer, Sigmund Freud, Henry Bergson and Erich Fromm. All of them are of Jewish origin and all of them strove to turn people away from religion and to establish a social and moral order that was completely irreligious. It should go without saying that Charles Darwin and his views enjoyed a very special position among these figures.
And it should also go without saying that Harun Yahya comes across like anti-semitic creationist crank.
Update: Sunni Sister writes about Harun Yahya’s Jewish-Freemasonic conspiracy theorising:
I tried to read one of his science oriented books online a few days ago (about the Creation of the Earth). Today, I’ve gone back and read a few more and read some of his political books, but last week, I gave up my reading b/c he was talking about materialism and other anti-religious philosophies and how it was all the invention of such “Jews” as the Marquis de Sade. Who was many things, but not a Jew. Ditto with David Hume, Auguste Comte, Herbert Spencer, Friedrich Schelling, Ferdinand Toennies… need I go on? But according to him, they’re all “of Jewish origin,” as if that is something sinister.