INTRODUCTION

In this issue, we address a crime deeper, quieter, and more insidious than “genocide”: faith-cide. There is no difference between the bodies destroyed in Gaza and the spirits killed in East Turkistan; when a Muslim’s faith or body is violated, the same pain spreads, no matter where in the world it occurs. The systematic policy of extermination carried out in East Turkistan differs from the oppressions history is accustomed to, as it is a liquidation whose target is not the body, but the faith. “Patience exercises” are substituted for prayer, “discipline training” for fasting, and the “cult of leadership” for the Word of Allah; mosques are turned into museums, and children are torn from their families and crammed into ideological barracks. An attempt is being made to take the soul captive through a slow but systematic program.

In this issue, we go beyond merely voicing this echo and remind of the responsibility: if faith is not defended, the existence of the body will also lose its meaning. The resistance in Gaza, the patience in East Turkistan, and the struggle for belief across the world unite around the same truth; faith is not a surrender, but a resistance. This reality stands before us not as a heartache to be felt in our consciences, but as a duty to be organized. Through our articles, documents, and testimonies, we aim to make that oppression visible, to mobilize the conscience of society, and to refresh the consciousness of defending the sphere of faith; for while oppression may change its form, the requirement of the truth remains the same: faith must be protected.

Contents

Faith-cide: China’s attempt to kill the religion and soul of a nation - Ömer Emre Akcebe

Traces of Islamic culture are being erased in East Turkistan - Journalist-Taha Kılınç

Not remaining indifferent to China’s persecution in East Turkistan - Prof. Dr. Fethi Güngör

Necip Fazıl’s Proposal for the Başyücelik State and Administration - Kâzım Albayrak

Systematic genocide is being carried out - Abdullah Oğuz

China is trying to disconnect the Uyghurs from Islam - Muhammed Ali Atayurt

Media and NGOs must build public opinion - Barış Kurt

They are targets because they are Muslim - Selahattin Kaşgarlı

What is happening in East Turkistan in 42 points?

The Sleeping Ummah and the Abraham Shield - Handan Özduygu

Interview with Osman Nuri Topbaş Hocaefendi on Master Necip Fazıl

Hadith, wisdom, aesthetics, and society in Necip Fazıl’s works - Muhsin İlyas Subaşı

Our Century’s Need for Necip Fazıl - Dr. Aliosman Dağlı

Ottoman economic mentality and Western capitalism - Prof. Dr. Ahmet Tabakoğlu

Touching the child's soul between pedagogy and wisdom - Aslıhan Tunçbilek

Beyond the broken mirror: Art, ideal, and wisdom - Yavuz Arslan

Ottoman economic mentality and Western capitalism: Traces of the transformation from history to today - Prof. Dr. Ahmet Tabakoğlu

The cancer of the world economy: Interest -II- Melih Oktay

Woman and herself - Betül Deniz

The martyrdom of Izz ad-Din al-Qassam - Oğuzhan Kulaksız

Human and Education - Nazım Erol

Compassion - Faruk Hanoğlu