An academic at a university in Turkey’s western province of Aydın has been suspended pending an investigation after he allegedly mocked verses of the Islamic holy book on social media…The unnamed academic was removed from duty at Aydın Menderes University on Wednesday after the university rector, Cavit Bircan, filed a criminal complaint against him.
Why would anyone expect tolerance and free speech in rapidly re-Islamizing Turkey? This reaction toward the academic is to be expected in supposedly secular Turkey, where it is a criminal offense to criticize Islam, and especially Muhammad and the Quran.
The larger problem is that Sharia blasphemy laws forbidding criticism of Islam are becoming entrenched in many Western nations, where Sharia principles are being implemented by the media and sometimes even imposed upon citizens. This supremacy has not yet been codified in law, but Islam has now been put on a pedestal, supreme above every other creed.
“Turkish academic suspended from university for mocking the Quran on social media,” Ahval News, November 7, 2018:
An academic at a university in Turkey’s western province of Aydın has been suspended pending an investigation after he allegedly mocked verses of the Islamic holy book on social media, Takvim newspaper reported.
The unnamed academic was removed from duty at Aydın Menderes University on Wednesday after the university rector, Cavit Bircan, filed a criminal complaint against him, Takvim said.
“As a result of an investigation it was found that the academic in his social media postings made a mockery of Quranic verses and shared posts which contain pejoratives and insults that are not befitting an academic,” Bircan said in a statement…..
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Turkey: Academic suspended for mocking Quran on social media, criminal complaint filed against him
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There is less and less freedom of speech in Turkey.