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Thursday, March 7th, 2013✪ Book Tour In The UK (Nov 22-26)
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Tuesday, November 15th, 2011
✪ COLUMNS: Read Mustafa Akyol weekly in Hürriyet Daily News & Al Monitor.
Muslims vs. Cartoons: What To Do Against Blasphemy?
Sunday, November 13th, 2011[Originally published in Huffington Post]
Charlie Hebdo, a satirical French magazine, recently became much more famous than it ever was. Early this month, it came out with a provocative issue whose cover presented a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad, and the headline, “100 lashes if you don’t die laughing.” Shortly afterwards, the offices of the magazine were firebombed, and its website got hacked.
Not All Terrorists Are Muslim, Apparently
Tuesday, July 26th, 2011[Originally published in Hurriyet Daily News, with readers' comments]
A silly motto has developed in the West in the past decade. “Not all Muslims are terrorists, of course,” people would utter it, smilingly, only to add; “but all terrorists are Muslims.” Yet now, the monstrous violence committed by Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian terrorist who killed more than 70 of his innocent countrymen, clearly debunks that rhetoric.
