He said it. His anti-intellectualism follows in the footsteps of the caliph Umar, who is supposed to have said when ordering the ancient, fabled library of Alexandria to be burned: “If the books agree with the Qur’an, they are superfluous. If they disagree with it, they are heretical.”
“I am against education, sports, culture, and enlightenment says Turkish Islamist columnist,” Ahval, December 5, 2018 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
I am a person who opposes education, sports, culture, and enlightenment, said Islamist columnist Abdurrahman Dilipak in his column in pro-government daily Yeni Akit on Tuesday.
“Please, do not make my children complacent, educate them,” said Dilipak, who wrote that it is possible to educate and tame animals, but not people.
The columnist said that education was the invention of what he called “the white man,” who had established schools to teach others, such as Native Americans and Asians, to behave according to his own rules, based on his own needs and security concerns….
Dilipak criticised those promoting education, sports, and culture for acting as through they are divine beings….
The columnist said that education, sports, and culture were products of the enlightenment philosophy that dominated Western thinking after the 1789 French revolution. “In fact enlightenment is the name of the operation that aimed to sanctify and universalise Western politics, economics, theology, history, and looting,” he said.