Excerpt from Mr. Adnan Oktar's Live Conversation on A9TV dated October 12nd, 2014
Terrorists and buildings are hit when they drop bombs from the air, but the worst thing is that innocent civilians are also martyred. ISIS will not let itself be bombed. They are not so foolish as to hide in buildings. They are all spread out across open land. Since planes cannot bomb open land, they are not going to get anywhere. They imagine they are succeeding when they bomb buildings. My brother, you are taking it out on concrete, you are beating concrete up. You cannot get anywhere by destroying buildings. You cannot get anywhere by martyring civilians.
Many Muslims are supporting the #Airdrop2Kobane hashtag. They say that an aerial bombardment is the only solution. My brother, aerial bombardment is murder. You are killing people en masse. I fail to understand how they can advocate killing. Innocent people are left drenched in blood. Children’s arms are torn off and they spend weeks in bed screaming in pain. Fear God!
These people have become blind. God has taken away their senses. Aerial bombardment is a terrible thing. How do you know who is 5000 meters beneath? Children and young people are being martyred. These people cannot flee anywhere. Grandmothers and old men cannot flee with their walking sticks. Dogs and cats and birds there are dying. Nothing is left alive. 'We have degraded ISIS,’ they say. They have not degraded ISIS in the least. ISIS is about to take Baghdad. Pull yourselves together!
You must first try people who are guilty of crimes, then put them in prison. I have been saying for days that aerial bombardment is unacceptable. There is no legal basis for it. You try the culprit, and if he is guilty you put him in prison. You cannot kill people. That is not allowed under the law of war.
You cannot mistreat prisoners of war under the law of war. Those people must be given troops’ food to eat. There is prisoner of war status in international law. Prisoners are to be tried and then either released or imprisoned. That is what the law of war says. You still could not bomb people living underground even if they were all guilty of murder. This practice is a disgrace.
But America is determined on this illogicality. It is committing the worst murder. It is engaging in mass killing.
- America is one of the countries that carry out the most of the death penalties.
America is committing genocide from the sky, killing all there is on the ground. They have adopted this as a deep-rooted tradition. They need to be told how terrible what they are doing is.
- They attach no value to the lives of their own (guilty) citizens either. A poll last year asked why the death penalty was still acceptable. A great many people replied that it is very expensive to feed a prisoner in prison for all his life.
Adnan Oktar: Disgraceful. Of course you have to maintain them. Convicted people must be punished, but not killed. It is God Who must take that person’s soul.