Busy Spreading Understanding and Goodwill - Again
Vision TV - at it again.
No sooner do they apologize for broadcasting lectures by a fundamentalist Muslim whose fanatical views on the place of Jews in the world order and his dismissal of the Holocaust as a historical event have earned them censure, than they once again place on public view for the instruction of the trustingly pious, the work of yet another Jew-baiter.
They seem to have an incurable penchant for ill-considered choices. Particularly for a group ostensibly dedicated to the furtherance of multiculturalism and understanding between people of different faiths.
This time around it was a documentary credited to a Turkish author by the name of Adnan Oktar, self-proclaimed founder of the Foundation for Scientific Research, an organization based in Istanbul. Mr. Oktar preaches that “Zionism and the State of Israel” manipulate the memory of the Holocaust as a means of ‘legitimizing’ crimes against humanity'. His publishing oeuvre includes the title “The Holocaust Lie”.
This particular documentary that appeared on Vision TV had its focus on the Islamic idea of creationism. A spokesperson for the television channel contends that they performed some research into Mr. Oktar’s background, but nothing untoward was revealed. Which is rather strange, since a simple Google search reveals a cornucopia of information about Mr. Oktar and his writing.
Selecting one source out of the many that appeared I was able to read that he published the book “Judaism and Freemasonry” in 1986, where he pointed out that the mission of Jews and Freemasons in Turkey was to achieve the erosion of the spiritual, religious and moral values of the people of Turkey.
The end result of this perniciously wicked conspiracy was to “make them [Turks] like animals”. He describes the sacred writings of Judaism as the “Distorted Torah”. Claims that a materialistic lifestyle was introduced into Turkey, along with the theory of evolution and immoral lifestyles, by Jews and Freemasons.
He certainly has his opinions. Not, obviously, embraced by all to whom his writings are directed. Shortly after the publication of that book he was arrested and imprisoned, then transferred to the Bakirkov Mental Hospital, and placed under observation, then released after 19 months.
His hospitalization doubtless gave him ample opportunity to expand on his various unpalatable theses.
But for the folks at Vision TV the simple background check appeared to be too elusive for their sharp minds. “Had we known about his views, there would have been a different situation and a different decision made”, according to Gail Thomson, vision TV’s director of marketing.
Onward and Upward...
No sooner do they apologize for broadcasting lectures by a fundamentalist Muslim whose fanatical views on the place of Jews in the world order and his dismissal of the Holocaust as a historical event have earned them censure, than they once again place on public view for the instruction of the trustingly pious, the work of yet another Jew-baiter.
They seem to have an incurable penchant for ill-considered choices. Particularly for a group ostensibly dedicated to the furtherance of multiculturalism and understanding between people of different faiths.
This time around it was a documentary credited to a Turkish author by the name of Adnan Oktar, self-proclaimed founder of the Foundation for Scientific Research, an organization based in Istanbul. Mr. Oktar preaches that “Zionism and the State of Israel” manipulate the memory of the Holocaust as a means of ‘legitimizing’ crimes against humanity'. His publishing oeuvre includes the title “The Holocaust Lie”.
This particular documentary that appeared on Vision TV had its focus on the Islamic idea of creationism. A spokesperson for the television channel contends that they performed some research into Mr. Oktar’s background, but nothing untoward was revealed. Which is rather strange, since a simple Google search reveals a cornucopia of information about Mr. Oktar and his writing.
Selecting one source out of the many that appeared I was able to read that he published the book “Judaism and Freemasonry” in 1986, where he pointed out that the mission of Jews and Freemasons in Turkey was to achieve the erosion of the spiritual, religious and moral values of the people of Turkey.
The end result of this perniciously wicked conspiracy was to “make them [Turks] like animals”. He describes the sacred writings of Judaism as the “Distorted Torah”. Claims that a materialistic lifestyle was introduced into Turkey, along with the theory of evolution and immoral lifestyles, by Jews and Freemasons.
He certainly has his opinions. Not, obviously, embraced by all to whom his writings are directed. Shortly after the publication of that book he was arrested and imprisoned, then transferred to the Bakirkov Mental Hospital, and placed under observation, then released after 19 months.
His hospitalization doubtless gave him ample opportunity to expand on his various unpalatable theses.
But for the folks at Vision TV the simple background check appeared to be too elusive for their sharp minds. “Had we known about his views, there would have been a different situation and a different decision made”, according to Gail Thomson, vision TV’s director of marketing.
Onward and Upward...
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