How islam is wrong

I didn't ask God to create me, so God cannot ask anything from me in return. I have a right to live as free as a bird. Turkey's top religious cleric, the head of Religious Affairs Directorate Ali Erbas, has also denied the spread of deism and atheism among the country's conservative youth.

Theology professor Hidayet Aybar is also adamant that there is no such shift towards deism. It rejects Koran and it rejects the prophet. It rejects heaven and hell, the angels, and reincarnation.

These are all pillars of Islam. Deism only accepts the existence of God," he says. According to deist philosophy, God created the universe and all its creatures but does not intervene in what has been created, and does not lay out rules or principles. I used to be a public worker. After the attempted coup in , I was sacked. I used to be a religious, conservative young man who strongly supported the governing party and its policies.

When I got sacked, I started questioning God. I became estranged. I do not categorise myself as a deist yet. I hope to rebuild my relationship with Islam, but I do not know whether that is possible any more. Turkey's only atheism association believes Prof Aybar is wrong about the current trend and claims that even atheist imams exist. There are women in niqabs who secretly confess they are atheists, but they cannot take them off because they are scared of their family or their environment.

I meet Merve for a second time at home. New York, NY: Pantheon. Said, E. Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient. London: Vintage. Mironova, V. Her research and teaching interests focus on Islam, nationalism, identity, foreign policy analysis and postcolonial politics, with particular reference to the Middle East, North Africa, Eurasia and Turkey. She is also the author of, Turkey Facing East: Islam, Modernity and Foreign Policy Manchester University Press, ; as well as numerous articles and book chapters on Turkish nationalism, foreign policy and international politics of the Middle East.

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Any amount, in any currency, is appreciated. Many thanks! Donations are voluntary and not required to download the e-book - your link to download is below. The Illusion of a Unified Islam Western ethnocentrism is based on an illusion that Islam is monolithic and homogenous.

Islam as a Violent Religion Western ethnocentric biases frame Islam inevitably as the primary referent for the cause of violence. The Impact of Asymmetrical Exercise of Power Essentializing Islam and the Middle East, in fact, prevents many Westerners from understanding the complex causes of power struggles. All Muslims as Potential Terrorists In contemporary politics, much of the Western media and right-wing populist narratives continue adopting rather simplistic views of Islam as a violent and backward religion, and stereotypical images of Muslims as irrational and warmongering beings.

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About The Author s. Please Consider Donating Before you download your free e-book, please consider donating to support open access publishing. Download PDF. Sacred scriptures, Islamic or otherwise, have always been matters of contention and competing interpretations. The Islamic religious field is characterized by a diversity of ideas and organizational structures, which make it impossible to impose one uniform version of Islam.

Attempts by state institutions over the past two centuries to create their own versions of Islam have often failed. Despite state measures which aimed to put an end to religious orders, these groups managed to find ways to survive and even develop their structures and support bases despite state restrictions.

Third, calls for reform are counterproductive to efforts which seek to reduce radicalization and violent extremism. If religious authorities are forced to impose a state-sanctioned version of Islam on their communities they risk being viewed as mere mouthpieces of the state, which would severely compromise their legitimacy and present radical actors with an opportunity to gain more ground to advance their cause.

In the first Friday prayers after Ben Ali left the country, preachers who used to praise him were prevented by the people from entering mosques. At the same time, about mosques are believed to have come under Salafi control , with around 50 under Salafi jihadist control. The wiping out of legitimate religious actors under the regime meant that the religious field was almost empty when the regime fell.