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Even touching Erdogan is a form of worship.
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Erdogan
Touching
Worship
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Those who hope to nurture genuine religiosity should first establish liberty.
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Firsts
Genuine
Liberty
Nurture
Should
Establish
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I think forcing people to uncover their head is as tyrannical as forcing them to cover it.
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People
Thinking
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Disapproving and boycotting is the Quranic thing to do, whereas violence and threats are not.
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Things To Do
Threat
Violence
Disapprove
Threats
Whereas
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It is beneficial for Turkish democracy that not all religious conservatives are united under one banner.
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Beneficial
Turkish
Conservatives
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Turkey has never been colonized, so it remained as an independent nation after the fall of the Ottoman Empire.
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Empire
Remained
Turkey
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The Arab Spring has heightened the ideological tension between Ankara and Tehran, and Turkey's model seems to be winning.
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Arab Spring
Ideological
Spring
Tehran
Tension
Turkeys
Winning
Arab
Turkey
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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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Liberalism
What If
Seldom
Synonymous
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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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Debate
Prime
Prime Minister
Rolling
Heated
Minister
Turkey
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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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Rift
Conservatives
Divide
Fundamental
Journalists
Turkey
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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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Abandon
Free Choice
Islam
Punishment
Verses
Earthly
Imply
Lacks
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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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Immaturity
Integrity
Intellectual
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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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Men
Collectivism
Defined
East
Ideas
Islam
Islamic
Middle East
Saved
Agent
Monotheistic
Strengths
Tribe
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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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Afghanistan
Arabia
Doubt
East
Iran
Islamic
Middle
Middle East
No Doubt
Regimes
Saudi Arabia
Secret
Taliban
Worst
Authoritarian
Case
Movements
Saudi
So-Called
Tend
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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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Dialogue
Doctrine
Fostering
Jihad
Militant
Siege
Al
Crusade
Easing
Muslims
Qaeda
Retrieve
Rid
Tensions
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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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Legal
Alcohol
Categories
Contention
Islam
Islamic
Judged
Prayer
Talking
Bone
Commands
Daily
Enforced
Muslims
Obligations
Prayers
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In the 19th century, when Muslims were looking at Europe as an example, they were independent; they were more self-confident. In the early 20th century, with the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the whole Middle East was colonized. And when you have colonization, what do you have? You have anti-colonization.
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Colonization
East
Middle East
Self Confident
Empire
Muslims
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For the jihadists, Muslim women who embrace Western mores, and wear tight jeans or mini skirts, are hated symbols of corruption that need to be eradicated. For the ideological mentors of Breivik, a similar disturbance comes from the burqa, which is banned in France and Belgium, partly thanks to their efforts.
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Banned
Belgium
Disturbance
Embrace
France
Ideological
Jeans
Skirts
Thanks
Western
Efforts
Eradicated
Mentors
Mini
Muslim
Partly
Similar
Tight
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While no Muslim worthy of his name would lose his respect for God, the Prophet Muhammad, and other symbols of Islam, he might well refrain from using legal prosecution or violent reaction to those who do not show the same respect. My basis for this claim is nothing other than the holiest source of Islam, the Quran.
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Legal
Islam
Muhammad
Prophet
Refrain
Symbols
Worthy
Basis
Claim
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Reaction
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