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Ahmet T. Kuru

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Most recent articles by Ahmet T. Kuru

  • U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken (left) visits Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right)
    Israel-Palestine conflict

    Muslim sceptics, the West and democracy

    Events unfolding in the Middle East will have long-term consequences for world politics. Analysing perceptions is crucial to predicting the fallout. So how does the global Muslim community perceive Western governments' support of Israel's siege and aerial bombardment of Gaza?

    By Ahmet T. Kuru
  • Unless secularists change their authoritarian attitude, the current secularist trend will fail to produce democracy in the Muslim world. Whether they will truly embrace democratic pluralism remains uncertain.
    Protests in Iran

    Rethinking Sharia and democracy

    According to a recent survey, half of all Iranians say that they have left Islam as a religion, while two-thirds believe Islamic law should be excluded from their legal system. In the following essay, Ahmet T. Kuru explores the implications

    By Ahmet T. Kuru
  • 9/11 twenty years on

    Muslims in the West – the cultural go-betweens

    Twenty years after 9/11, the world is faced with the dual challenge of Islamophobia and anti-Westernism. Ahmet Kuru argues that Muslims in the West, well versed in both Western and Muslim cultures, are key to resolving the mutual antipathy felt by many

    By Ahmet T. Kuru
  • Execution for a Facebook post?

    Why blasphemy is a capital offence in some Muslim countries

    The Prophet Muhammad never executed anyone for apostasy, nor encouraged his followers to do so. Nor is criminalising sacrilege based on Islam’s main sacred text, the Koran. In this essay, Ahmet Kuru exposes the political motivations for criminalising blasphemy and apostasy

    By Ahmet T. Kuru

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