turkish → English transcript

What about secularism do you oppose?

What about secularism do I oppose?

There are things that run counter to the rulings of the Holy Qur’an.

To the practices, or to the definition itself?

To the definition itself as well, of course.

And why is that?

It says that all authority, power, sovereignty, this and that, whatever,

will be taken from the people.

So what happens? The people vote to elect individuals.

Those elected make the laws.

And with these laws, the 200 years we’ve come to,

since the contractors’ rights,

200 years of constitutionalism, the Tanzimat, this and that.

At the point we’ve reached, have we gotten better or worse?

Have we gotten better or worse?

Going back 1,000 years,

from Alparslan on down, from the Seljuks, from the Ottomans.

Of course I’m not counting the last 100 years.

The Ottoman Empire’s last 100 years are added to this recent period too.

We need to debate it with the people concerned.

Okay. Well, with that behind us, what's our situation here now?

Have murders increased or decreased?

Have muggings increased or decreased?

So is secularism to blame then?

When you say it's secularism's fault, if you abolish the death penalty,

if you say qisas is in the Qur'an, if you put the terrorist up and feed him,

everyone waits for his year, waits for his month; if you keep letting them out every other week,

Besides, the punishment you hand down isn't in accordance with Islam.

Because he's committed such a crime that the penalty isn't light.

The penalty is qisas.

When you do it this way,

right now, in every neighborhood, men who kill their wives, butcher their daughters,

I don't know, live incestuously with their daughter, this and that -- here's what I'm saying.

Now alcohol is legal; the state itself is making wine,

Sir, gambling is banned in appearance, whatever.

There's the lottery.

There's its lottery too; anyway, Cyprus is already the side yard.

After that, sir, adultery was already legalized.

And so on.

Et cetera, et cetera.

Murder, whatever, sentence reductions for good conduct, enhancements.

Well, sir, there are arbitrary pardons, this and that.

There are so many martyrs.

Allah has given rights to the martyrs, the slain, to their guardians who were given rights, to the camp owners,

If they forgive, they can forgive; if they take blood money, they can take it.

Nor can the state pardon.