Mustafa Akyol
Mustafa Akyol
Mustafa Akyolis a Turkish writer and journalist. Akyol has said he would describe himself as a "Classical Liberal". He is the author of Islam without Extremes: A Muslim Case for Liberty, long-listed in 2012 for the Lionel Gelber Prize, a literary award for the world's best non-fiction book in English. He became a contributing opinion writer for the International New York Times in 2013...
NationalityTurkish
ProfessionWriter
CountryTurkey
integrity intellectual immaturity
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.
violence threat things-to-do
Disapproving and boycotting is the Quranic thing to do, whereas violence and threats are not.
islamic men ideas
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.
god thinking people
I think forcing people to uncover their head is as tyrannical as forcing them to cover it.
both crusade dialogue doctrine easing militant muslims qaeda rid westerners
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.