Yes, Virginia, There Was a 'False Prophet' There

türkçe links to original Turkish article

(Hürriyet Newspaper, 28 November 2019)


                               He certainly looked the part.

İskender Erol Evrenosoğlu (86), know as the 'false prophet' among the
public, died from heart failure in a hospital in Norfolk, Virginia in
the USA.  Evrenosoğlu was buried in his hometown of Bursa but the
mosque and cemetery where the burial prayers were to be recited were
changed at the last minute because of  security concerns.

Evrenosoğlu was the head of the Medeniyet İrfan Hayır Refah Vakfı
(Civilization Spiritual Knowledge Goodness Comfort Foundation)
(MİHR), which was shut down by court order in 2019 (!).  His body
was taken from the Bursa Cemeteries Directorate at 11 o'clock by
members of his family and escorted by convoy, which included
plain-clothes police, to Hamitler Cemetery.

However (!), as the vehicle carrying Evrenosoğlu's body entered the
cemetery grounds many people in the waiting crowd of 3,000
began to wail.  The crowd surrounded Evrenosoğlu's coffin and would
let no others approach it, while placing carnations and a copy of the
Kuran on top of it.  After the burial prayers were recited, the body
was laid to rest.


            Not to worry, those aren't artificial carnations.

However (!), the recitation of burial prayers for someone like
Evrenosoğlu, who proclaimed himself a prophet, was derided by
many people on social media, who wondered "how can someone
who has broken from the religion have burial prayers recited at
his grave?!"


                                      False Mecca