Mustafa Akyol: A Muslim case for liberty
By Altaf Deviyati
June 2014 FEATURE
The debate about Islam and Liberalism has been going on for decades, if not longer. Just as the case is with any other political discourse, Muslims have also fallen into the habit of labelling themselves, which can lead to lazy categorisations instead of proper critical analysis and thought.“Liberalism is not the fundamentals of a religion but a political idea of how a government should conduct itself,” says Mustafa Akyol, a prominent Turkish writer and journalist. “If I am on an...
Altaf Deviyati
is a senior analyst with the Political and Social Analysis Unit at the Penang Institute, working in the area of social inclusion.
