The Malaysia Think Tank London organised Ibn Khaldun Seminar 1 in Dublin on 10 November 2007. The speaker was Mustafa Akyol, a prominent Turkish writer and journalist. The seminar was divided into three sessions. This is the recording of the FIRST session.
Islam & Freedom: The Turkish Experience. Part 1 (4/5)
3 comments on “Islam & Freedom: The Turkish Experience. Part 1 (4/5)”
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SockFederation
October 12, 2010 at 2:19 am
I don’t agree with mr.Akyol being a very hardliner Atheist-Secularist but if you want to talk about something like islam and its place in life… best do it like Mr.Akyol wich is doing it in a clean,clear way.
DonnieDelight
October 12, 2010 at 2:44 am
Mr Akyol, has Islam and the pratice of it ever been restricted and/or repressed since the establishment of the Turkish Republic in 1923? Has Catholicism been repressed in the French Republic with its laicism?
Bluestarhand
October 12, 2010 at 3:23 am
I feel that there isn’t any absolute Islamic civilization and there isn’t any absolutely Western civilzations, no absolutely Chinese civilzation, etc. Why? Because all of these “civilzations” did borrow a substantial amount ideas, technologies and inventions through cultural exchanges. Take The Scimitar. originally the ME sword was straight like the Europeans, but the Mongols used curved sabres. Found effeective, the Muslim Empire used it, as did the Chinese (the dao).