sincere brotherhood with the Turks... and whom no court in the world can accuse of this ... and who, since racialism has no true reality and is harmful to Islamic brotherhood, has for fifty years said: `Islamic nationhood is equal to everything', and has supported that nationhood... and who has said: `Give up racialism and take up Islamic nationhood, which gains for you four hundred million brothers... and who has always taught this?"
A further matter the Court unjustly found Bediuzzaman guilty of concerned his explanations of certain Islamic laws concerning women. In his defence to the Appeal Court, he wrote defending these:
"One reason they showed for punishing me was my commentary on the Qur'an's extremely explicit verses about veiling, inheritance, recitation of the Divine Names, and polygamy, written to silence those who object to them (in the name of) civilization.
"..... I say this that if there is any justice on the face of the earth, [the Appeal Court] will quash this decision which convicts someone who expounded (Qur'anic verses) which in each century for one thousand three hundred and fifty years have been sacred and true Divine principles in the social life of three hundred and fifty million Muslims, and expounded them relying on the consensus and affirmation of three hundred and fifty thousand Qur'anic commentaries and following [what have been] the beliefs of our forefathers for one thousand three hundred years. Is it not denial of Islam and betrayal of our millions of religious and heroic forefathers to convict, because he expounded those verses, someone who according to reason and learning does not accept certain European laws applied temporarily due to certain requirements of the times and who has given up politics and withdrawn from social life, and is it not to insult millions of Qur'anic commentaries?

• The Experts' Report

While the preliminary questioning was being carried out by the Public Prosecutor and Examining Magistrate after the arrests of Bediuzzaman and his students, the collections of the Risale-i Nur,