I read Turkey Sex Cult Chief Sentenced to More Than 1,000 Years in Jail and thought at first it was going to be about some ghastly poultry fetishist, but no, it’s something completely different.
A Turkish Islamic televangelist was sentenced to 1,075 years in jail on Monday for running a decades-old cult whose members were accused of crimes ranging from sexual assault to blackmail, money laundering and even espionage.
Adnan Oktar, who wrote books on Islamic creationism under the pseudonym Harun Yahya, was put on trial in Istanbul alongside 236 other alleged members or enablers of his network, state-run Anadolu Agency reported.
He became well-known in Turkey over the years, especially for provocative TV shows broadcast on his own channel. On screen, the cult leader surrounded himself with young women he called his “kittens,” who were often dressed in revealing clothing while he uttered opinions on religious and political matters.
Goodbye, Harun Yahya/Adnan Oktar! I still have a couple of copies of his Atlas of Creation, a truly silly book.
Was that the one that showed a photo of an “insect” that was clearly a fishing lure?
Yes.
Ah, Harun Yahya. Haven’t heard from him in a while.
And now I won’t again, probably as long as I live. No great loss.
1000 years in prison instead of the death penalty. Is Turkey more civilized than the USA?
He’s the Millenium Balkan.
It was a beautiful, if poorly researched book. Anyway, I expected many stupid things from Hahrun Yahya, but not him getting sentenced to over one thousand years in a Turkish prison.
1000 years. That’s what you get for pissing off an Islamo-fascist state. The same kind of state christians want to build here. With a different set of gods, of course.
I don’t care if an idiot gets brought down, but the way, why and how hard, in addition to the sentence, is tragic.
We have our own religious illiteratii here. Same stuff.
Do you advocate we throw them all in jail for a thousand yea … wait …
Nevermind.
@7 azpaul3
No, here in America they want to kill people like that outright. 1000 years is more lenient than what the x-tian reich wants as punishment.
Most Muslims I know are happy he has finally got what he deserved. His creationist crap was only half of the bastardy he got up to. Name ia conspiracy theory prevalent in the Muslim world and chances are he played both sides of it.
Ray Ceeya, if only they did. The Christian Reich is where he got his inspiration and material from. His connections with them goes back to the time when Duane Fish was galloping his lies to unsuspecting audiences.
Yeah, the fishing lure guy. Good riddance. He’s also dumped a ton of misinformation on the Web, such as all those misidentified fossil (?) skulls: https://www.evolutiondeceit.com/en/books/152365/Atlas-of-Creation-Vol4/chapter/14254/Specimens-of-terrestrial-animal-and-bird-fossils–1 (Hopefully this means that eventually his domains will expire)
#10: Duane Gish is better known than Mr. Fish for the GG (Gish Gallop).
Without looking it up, isn’t it around a hundred years since that bloke got rid of the sultan and set up a secular republic in
Turkey ? Didn’t last long did it?
It’s probably a cultural thing, but I have no idea why anyone would think that surrounding themself with young women in revealing clothing for public appearances is a good thing to do. What message is it trying to convey? It certainly doesn’t suggest competence or intelligence or wisdom. Indeed, all it does is scream “creepy” or “tacky” or “inappropriate” at top volume. I can just about see it for someone like Hugh Hefner, whose business was porn, but for a religious preacher?
Is this a Turkish / Middle Eastern thing? Or is it seen as just as weird there?
Creepy sexuality seems to be common with these types. The American evangelist Bill Gothard is big on women having long, curly hair, which has caused much angst for those of his followers who have trouble achieving that look. He was accused of multiple counts of sexual harassment in 2014.
Ah, 1075 years. He probably won’t serve more than a hundred.
Watch Adnan and his “kittens” do an awkward and joyless seated dance to Gagnam Style: https://youtu.be/X2avsqmiETw
You’re welcome.
The Joker, and most other villains are monogamous. (Exception:Two-face)
When I become evil overlord, I will at least insist on any kittens being clever, and being trained assassins. You know, like in 90% ofJapanese anime.
That Oktar feller is just another wannabe Mormon prophet. We real supervillains despise the lot.