[Olphander]

By Way of Deception...

Your comments suggest that the show is a ploy to lure people in. How so? With illogical messages (his shows make no sense... I honestly can not fathom how the man on the show could have authored any book and wonder what the true sources are), carefully, meticulously, packaged disguised with painted nails, fake tans and fancy borders (website)? Then what... once they are hooked... then gently wean them from some habits? How so when the 'hoca' himself is the one continuing to publicly display certain actions? An example from his own show: the champagne glasses on the table. Now, someone must've brought it to the company exec's attention because the host of the show made a point to gesture and joke with his 'students' that people are going to start saying they're drinking alcohol now... smiling, joking while holding up the champagne glass. Don't tell me the women are fake too? They're just holograms perhaps (and even then it would not be okay)? There are champagne glasses on a public show but we're to assume the vessels carry something other than what they were intended for... hmmm, deceptive much? There are women on the show with heavy make-up etc. etc. and we're to assume they are not as they appear - that they are somehow concealing their true beauty as they've been commanded and are doing so 'modestly'... hmmm, deceptive much? There is a host on the show who constantly belittles people and makes examples of them in public (on the show) and we're to assume he is a pious, modest man... there is a host on the show who speaks of other nationalities as 'dirty' and we're to assume he represents Islam? We can go on and on... The whole production is nasty and I am absolutely dumb-founded that anyone would even entertain a word from him/them.

Alhamdulillah, it does not represent SUNNI Islam in Turkey.

... or it is calling to something other than Sunni Islam.