Mustafa Akyol

@AkyolinEnglish

Senior fellow at . Opinion writer for . Author of "The Islamic Jesus" & "Islam without Extremes.” 🇹🇷: ❤️:

Washington, DC
Joined May 2011

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    14 Feb 2017
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  2. 17 hours ago

    I agree. If there is one thing that Muslims should bring into politics, that must be civility.

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    "China can look like a great model [for Muslim autocrats], in which the economy grows without Western nuisances like human rights, free speech or limited government," hence the silence about the Uyghur GULAGs. v

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  4. Jan 4

    This from Pakistan’s President is shameful indeed, But no surprise. As I said in my recent piece on Uighurs, “most Muslim governments understand China’s authoritarian language. It is their own.” And that includes the supremacy of “national sovereignty” over human rights.

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  5. Jan 3

    I agree. The result of Islamism is the escape from Islam.

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    Jan 3

    Andalusi manuscript of Abū al-Walīd ibn Rushd’s (Averroes) commentary on Abū ‘Alī ibn Sina's (Avicenna), “Urjūzah fī al-ṭibb" w/ glosses in Latin & Spanish. It was copied by Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn Shihāb al-Ruʻaynī in Rabīʻ II 885 [June 1480]

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    Jan 3

    I cannot recommend this article enough. This is a must-read. Akyol's is a courageous voice of conscience.

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    Jan 3

    My friend and colleague writes about the Chinese gulag for Muslims--about which few Muslim leaders have complained. It is an outrage that warrants widespread criticism.

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    30 Dec 2018

    Why is China putting over a million Muslims in internment camps?

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    "Why is that? Why are Muslim leaders, especially those who love to be the champions of oppressed Muslims, so lenient toward China?" By

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    Jan 2

    Excellent summary by Mustafa Akyol of the Muslim world's silence on Xinjiang mass detention camps.

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    Jan 2

    China’s Gulag for Muslims by

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    Jan 2

    H/t ⁦⁩: “For Muslim autocrats and Islamists, a Confucian-Islamic alliance may still be alluring....For Muslim societies, however, the Uighur crisis must be a wake-up call.” ⁩ ⁦⁦

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    Jan 2

    "Russia’s gulags are long gone... But now another dictatorship, ruled by another Communist Party, is operating a new chain of prisons that evoke memory of the gulags — more modern, more high-tech, but no less enslaving." on 's gulag archipelago .

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    Jan 2

    Christians can't take a back seat in fighting for religious freedom for any faith either. This is a human rights issue about which we should all be concerned.

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    Jan 2

    China’s Gulag for Muslims: Where's the outrage, asks

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    Jan 2

    Thanks for this piece . I'm proud that our law firm is focused on representing Uighur asylum claims. It is a community that feel orphaned by the rest of the Muslim world.

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    "For Muslim societies, however, the Uighur crisis must be a wake-up call. It shows what can happen to Muslims when authoritarian governments embrace Islamophobia as state policy." Great Op-ed by in

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  20. Jan 2

    The “Confucian-Islamic” alliance of may still allure Muslim autocrats. But for Muslim societies, the crisis must be a wake-up call: It shows what happens when dictatorships embrace Islamophobia as state policy. My new piece:

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    Jan 2

    Must read Op-Ed by explaining the reasons for Muslim countries' silence on China's treatment of Islam as mental illness and mass detention of Turkic Muslims.

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