Ethics

Islamic Creationist Goes to Jail

By Ed Brayton

Hurun Yahya, aka Turkish creationist Adnan Oktar, has been found guilty in a court in his home country and sentenced to prison:

Controversial Turkish Islamic author Adnan Oktar was sentenced to three years in prison on Friday for creating an illegal organization for personal gain, state-run Anatolian news agency said...

Oktar had been tried with 17 other defendants in an Istanbul court. The verdict and sentence came after a previous trial that began in 2000 after Oktar, along with 50 members of his foundation, was arrested in 1999.

In that court case, Oktar had been charged with using threats for personal benefit and creating an organization with the intent to commit a crime. The charges were dropped but another court picked them up resulting in the latest case.

I have no idea if the charges are legit, of course.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on May 11, 2008 (boomark / email).