Top 16 Mustafa Akyol Quotes

#1. Rage is a sign of nothing but immaturity. The power of any faith comes not from its coercion of critics and dissenters. It comes from the moral integrity and the intellectual strength of its believers.

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#2. There is a heated debate in Turkey these days over whether the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is furthering democracy or rolling it back.

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#3. The main bone of contention is whether Islamic injunctions are legal or moral categories. When Muslims say Islam commands daily prayers or bans alcohol, are they talking about public obligations that will be enforced by the state or personal ones that will be judged by God?

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#4. The Qur'an not only lacks any earthly punishment for someone who abandons Islam, it even includes verses that imply that such a change of heart should be a matter of free choice.

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#5. It is no secret that many Islamic movements in the Middle East tend to be authoritarian, and some of the so-called 'Islamic regimes' such as Saudi Arabia, Iran - and the worst case was the Taliban in Afghanistan - they are pretty authoritarian. No doubt about that.

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#6. What if democracy does not serve liberty? This question is seldom asked in the West, where democracy is often seen as synonymous with liberalism.

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#7. What made al Qaeda retrieve the doctrine of militant jihad, and Breivik the ideas of crusade and reconquest, is a sense of siege. So, we should help both Westerners and Muslims get rid of that sense by easing their political tensions and by fostering dialogue between them.

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#8. Foreign journalists writing about Turkey like to focus on the most fundamental divide in Turkish society: the rift between religious conservatives and secularists.

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#9. It is beneficial for Turkish democracy that not all religious conservatives are united under one banner.

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#10. Disapproving and boycotting is the Quranic thing to do, whereas violence and threats are not.

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#11. I think forcing people to uncover their head is as tyrannical as forcing them to cover it.

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#12. Those who hope to nurture genuine religiosity should first establish liberty.

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#13. Even touching Erdogan is a form of worship,

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#14. There are strengths in Islamic tradition. Islam actually, as a monotheistic religion, which defined man as a responsible agent by itself, created the idea of the individual in the Middle East and saved it from the communitarianism, the collectivism of the tribe.

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#15. Turkey has never been colonized, so it remained as an independent nation after the fall of the Ottoman Empire.

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#16. The Arab Spring has heightened the ideological tension between Ankara and Tehran, and Turkey's model seems to be winning.

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