Archive for the 'Mustafa AKYOL' Category

Ein Volk, Ein Ummah, Ein Muhammad?

Cuma, Kasım 2nd, 2007

The Narodni Strana and other Islamophobic parties are dangerous for the world. And it is in the best interest of all of us to help them calm down.
  PRAGUE – Last Sunday evening I was strolling down the biggest avenue of the Czech capital and suddenly a blonde and blue-eyed young lady approached me. She […]

PKK is using al-Qaeda’s strategy

Perşembe, Ekim 25th, 2007

Just like al-Qaeda, the Kurdish terrorist group is hoping to make its enemy ‘lose consciousness and act chaotically against those who attacked it’.
  Fouad Hussein is a radical Jordanian journalist who met Abu Musab Zarqawi and other al-Qaeda leaders as early as 1996. Later on he spent quite sometime with these people and even shared […]

The wedge strategy we need against terrorism

Cumartesi, Ekim 20th, 2007

    The Turkish Parliament has given the government authorization to order a military operation into northern Iraq in order to hit the outlawed Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK) terrorists. Thus we might see some “action” in Iraq soon. Yet I don’t expect a massive, full-scale incursion. There rather will be, I guess, pointed attacks to specific PKK […]

The sum of all secular fears

Cuma, Temmuz 13th, 2007

Do you now what the biggest nightmare of a secularist Turk is?It takes place mostly when he takes a vacation to visit some place in Europe or North America. He packs up, wears his stylish jeans and t-shirt, puts on his iPod, takes his elegant girlfriend and boards a plane. During the flight, he chats […]

Sex matters -II- (The tragedy of Kemalist feminism)

Cumartesi, Haziran 16th, 2007

Unlike Mustafa Kemal, who did a lot to improve women’s status, his dedicated followers stopped asking for progress and became ‘secular conservatives’.

  Last weekend I was sitting at one the busiest Starbucks Coffee shops in Istanbul and reading the recent report by the European Stability Initiative (ESI) titled, “Sex And Power In Turkey: Feminism, Islam […]

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