Harun Yahya -- Atlas of Incarceration

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Harun Yahya -- Atlas of Incarceration

Post by L'Emmerdeur » Fri Nov 25, 2022 3:43 pm

I think that somehow Mr. Oktar will manage to get better accommodations than your average inmate of Turkish prison.

'Turkish Creationist Adnan Oktar sentenced to 8,658 years in prison'
Adnan Oktar, a Creationist preacher in Turkey, has been sentenced to 8,658 years in prison for a variety of crimes including running a criminal organization, sexual abuse, torture, and abduction. It comes after he was previously sentenced to over 1,075 years in prison, only to have that verdict overturned by an appellate court. The more recent jaw-dropping sentence came in a retrial.

If his name isn’t familiar to you, though, it’s worth going back in time a bit.

More than a decade ago, in 2006, the journal Science published this chart showing the acceptance of evolution in more than 34 countries:



The United States was waaaaaaay near the bottom of that list, with a paltry 40% of people who accepted that evolution is true. That alone sparked plenty of headlines, but also interesting was how Turkey managed to rank even lower than the U.S. when it came to science literacy.

That was largely due to Oktar, who wrote the “textbook” The Atlas of Creation (under the pen name “Harun Yahya”). He had been very effective in convincing people to ditch evolution. In 2017, Turkey removed evolution from the nation’s science classes entirely.

Beyond that, however, Oktar was also running a cult, surrounding himself with an army of virtually identical women and calling himself a feminist, a move that angered Islamic traditionalists. He said he had over 1,000 girlfriends because there was an “overflowing of love in my heart for women”… and also because he was “extraordinarily potent.”

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On Wednesday [Nov. 16], judges had their final say on the fate of 215 defendants, including 72 in detention, dashing the hopes of Oktar who was confident that he would be released, according to his statements in earlier hearings. This time, Oktar was sentenced to 891 years in prison on charges of running a criminal organization, sexual abuse, denial of education rights, torture, abduction and illegal storage of personal data.

Oktar, in total, was sentenced to 8,658 years as the court reasoned that he should be sentenced for crimes committed by his disciples as the head of the cult.

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Post by Svartalf » Fri Nov 25, 2022 4:12 pm

that is, unless erdogan issues a pardon...
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Post by NineBerry » Fri Nov 25, 2022 7:41 pm

Finally some good news.

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