Notes from Andrew Marr's Interview with Adnan Oktar - 22.02.2009 United Kingdom/The Mail on Sunday

On 22 February, 2009, The Mail on Sunday, one of Britain’s most popular newspapers with a circulation of over 2 million, carried a preview of Andrew Marr's BBC2 film "Darwin's Dangerous Idea" to be shown on BBC 2. The presenter on the film, Andrew Marr, set out his ideas that arose before his meeting with Adnan Oktar:

“... Millions of Muslims, as well as Christians - half the people of Britain, according to one survey - reject Darwin's teaching. One author even asserts Darwinists were responsible for 9/11.
... Another place we visited was Istanbul, where TURKISH AUTHOR ADNAN OKTAR has some claim to be AMONG THE MOST INFLUENTIAL CREATIONISTS ON THE PLANET.
He argues that Darwinism is by its very nature a violent creed because of its insistence on the importance of conflict or struggle. For this Muslim, who wants to convert Europe to Islam, the 9/11 terrorists 'were in reality Darwinists'.”
(You can watch the full interview of Mr. Adnan Oktar, here.)

Czechs Are Also Opposed to Darwin - 07.02.2009 Czech Republic/Lidove Noviny

Lidove Noviny, printed in Prague, capital of the Czech Republic, and the country’s oldest daily carried a report on 7 February, 2009 dealing with the rise of anti-Darwinist views in Europe. The article referred to the Atlas of Creation by Adnan Oktar, described as “the Turkish Muslim author Harun Yahya,” as the reason for the spread of belief in Creation in Europe. It also emphasized that voices opposed to Darwin are growing louder in the Czech Republic and that Creationist belief is on the rise.

Oktar Has Targeted the Whole of Europe - 10.02.2009 Canada/La Presse

La Presse, one of Canada’s highest circulation dailies, published in French in Montreal ever since 1884, carried an article describing the rise of belief in Creation in Europe. An article in the 10 February, 2009, issue referred to the impact of Adnan Oktar’s works as follows:

... Adnan Oktar (pen name Harun Yahya) of Turkish origins... the author of 200 documentaries, and 300 books translated into 60 different languages and with 200 web sites. He has succeeded in spreading creationism widely in Turkey... Oktar has targeted the whole of Europe, and is doing this particularly with his showy book called the Atlas of Creation. But he concentrates on France in particular, because if he can make himself accepted in a country with powerful non-religious roots, then he believes his cause will have been successful.

Reports in the French press say that belief in Creation is spreading widely, despite all the obstacles. Teachers are reporting difficult moments in class in the face of anti-Darwin objections. Darwinist-materialist circles are literally in mourning over the way the French have lost with a single book – the Atlas of Creation - a philosophy they have espoused for 150 years. 
You can watch some of the reports from the European press regarding the collapse of Darwinism here.

Harun Yahya Is the Global Leader of Muslim Creationism - 07.02.2009 France/Le Monde

On 7 February, 2009, Le Monde, one of France’s best known dailies, carried an article titled “A Move against Religion.”  The report in the paper, which has a circulation of around 400,000, once again raised the impact in France of the Atlas of Creation, and described the reaction of French students to the theory of evolution being taught in classes:

Adam is described in the Qur’an as being created from earth, and the majority of Muslims believe that Adam and Eve existed in Paradise before coming to Earth. That is why the theory of evolution is seldom taught in Muslim countries. Even in France the great majority of young Muslims share that view and make the following statement when they learn about the theory of evolution in schools: “I AM WRITING WHAT THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION SAYS HERE, BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT THE COURSE DEMANDS, BUT I DO NOT BELIEVE IT…”
Moving on to the subject of Creationism… HARUN YAHYA, the famous Turkish author of the Atlas of Creation distributed in France… THE GLOBAL LEADER OF MUSLIM CREATIONISM… 

An Islamic view to the effect that many scientific discoveries are written in the Qur’an has emerged in an intensive manner. One can come across such statements in French and English on the television, in books and on web sites. These popular opinions attract the interest of the young in particular… One senior political figure made the following statement during a conference in Algeria: “A significant number of researchers and scientists agree that their findings are also to be found in the Qur’an.”