Mehmet Murat IldanWhen you have much higher ethical values than the ethical values of your own people, you stop belonging to your own people, to your own country because your people and your country are now located in the low levels of humanity!
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This quote from the Muslim intellectual theorist, Jamal al-Din al-Afghani, is a profoundly important one for us to read. In it, he issues a warning to Muslims about the ways in which their religion has been hijacked by the West and turned into an instrument of Western imperialism. Islam was not designed to be used as a tool by Western powers — and we must never allow it to become so. We need to go back and relearn the true message and spirit of our religion, and make it once again a positive force in global affairs.
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