Jamie GlazovFrontpage Interview's guest today is Edip Yuksel, a Kurdish-Turkish-American author and progressive activist who spent four years in Turkish prisons in the 1980's for his political writings and activities promoting an Islamic revolution in Turkey. He experienced a paradigm change in 1986 transforming him from a Sunni Muslim leader to a reformed Muslim or rational monotheist.
Edip Yuksel has written more than twenty books and hundreds of articles on religion, politics, philosophy and law in Turkish, and numerous articles and booklets in English. He is the founder of 19.org and the Islamic Reform organization. His personal site is yuksel.org.
After receiving his bachelor degrees from the University of Arizona in Philosophy and Near Eastern Studies, Mr. Yuksel received his law degree from the same university. Today he is an Adjunct Philosophy professor at Pima Community College and teaches various classes at his children's school.
His recent major work, Quran: a Reformist Translation, has been recently published by BrainbowPress, after being canceled by Palgrave-Macmillan, which followed the fatwa of a "very established scholar."
Today Mr. Yuksel is a "dissident" and "ex-prisoner" in the records of the Turkish government, an "apostate" in the fatwas of Muslim clergymen, a "betrayer" in the hearts of his family, and a "reformer" in the minds of progressive Muslims.
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Source: FrontPage Magazine
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Considering the fact that Mr. Yuksel refers to liberation of 50+ million people in Afghanistan and Iraq as "cruel military invasions and occupations" one must wonder how 'moderate' and 'reformed' Mr. Yuksel really is.
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