Turkey: Muslim Professor Questions Muhammad, Qur’an, Receives Death Threats, is Forced to Resign

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Mustafa Öztürk, a professor of Islamic Theology at Istanbul’s Marmara University and a columnist, has become a target of the pro-government media and Islamic movements in Turkey following his comments concerning the Koran. Exposed to a lynching campaign and death threats on Twitter, the professor had to resign from his post at university and retire.

The short speech was filmed in a video recording that is understood to have been shot without the professor’s knowledge in his university office. In it, Professor Öztürk referred to Al-Walid ibn al-Mughirah al-Makhzumi, the chief of the Banu Makhzum clan of the Quraysh tribe, and Al-As ibn Wa’il. Both of these historical figures had some problems with Islam’s prophet, Mohammed. Öztürk said:

The Koran [only] talked about Al-Walid ibn al-Mughirah al-Makhzumi and Al-As ibn Wa’il for 23 years and squeezed its entire frame into [the Arabian regions of] Hejaz, Taif and Medina. The diameter of [the Koran’s] last word to humanity is 3 or 5 polytheists there. And there are such curses for those polytheists in the Quran. They’re referred to both as “bigheaded” and “bastards”… Could this be the language of Allah? Could a humanitarian language have been used? It could. [But] he [Mohammed] was hurt. He was furious.

After his speech became viral on social media, a hate campaign was launched against the professor, using the hashtag “#MustafaÖztürkİhraçEdilsin” (Expel Mustafa Öztürk from university).

 

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