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Mustafa Akyol

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Senior Fellow on Islam and modernity at @CatoInstitute. Senior Lecturer at @BostonCollege. Author of a few books. Writes also in 🇹🇷 as @AkyolMustafa.
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Why Sharia Courts Have a Place in Israel

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By Mustafa Akyol
| Cato Institute Verified
Last week, on July 9, Israeli President Isaac Herzog posted an innocuous message on X that he almost certainly didn’t expect to receive 1.6 million views. The post announced that he had just sworn in five new qadis – judges of Islamic law – “to serve in Israel’s sharia courts.” One was Rula Masalha-Zahalka, a Muslim woman wearing a headscarf, the female ever to hold the post. “Mabrouk!,” Herzog added in Arabic (meaning “congratulations!”). The reaction told its own story.
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Why Sharia Courts Have a Place in Israel

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By Mustafa Akyol
| MBN Iran Podcast Briefing
Last week, on July 9, Israeli President Isaac Herzog posted an innocuous message on X that he almost certainly didn’t expect to receive 1.6 million views. The post announced that he had just sworn in five new qadis – judges of Islamic law – “to serve in Israel’s sharia courts.” One was Rula Masalha-Zahalka, a Muslim woman wearing a headscarf, the female ever to hold the post. “Mabrouk!,” Herzog added in Arabic (meaning “congratulations!”). The reaction told its own story.
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Erdoğan Didn’t Invent Turkish Authoritarianism. He Inherited It.

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By Mustafa Akyol
| MBN Iran Podcast Briefing
Last month, a Turkish court issued a ruling that overturned the results of an internal leadership election in the country’s main opposition party, the Republican People’s Party (CHP). With their decision, the judges ousted the CHP‘s up-and-coming chairman Özgür Özel and replaced him with his predecessor, the notoriously uncharismatic Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu. It was a brazen act of political meddling that the party immediately dubbed “a judicial coup.” It was not, however, an isolated event.
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