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Turkish Islamic scholar says Erdogan opponents ‘must be killed’ | |||
2019-01-07 | |||
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Netherlands announced it would open an investigation into statements made by an Islamic ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey... , in which he said, "opponents rebelling against Ahmet Akgunduz, head of the Islamic University of Rotterdam in Netherlands,
...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor.... (supporters of Fethullah Gülen ... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world... ) should be sentenced to death, even if they were pious," during a telephone interview with Akgunduz also cited a Koranic verse asserting that it is permissible to kill enemies of the state. He added, "what Fethullah Gulen and his movement did on July 15 is an insurgency in the state, therefore they are aggressors according to Islamic Sharia." Dutch Education Minister Ingrid van Engelshoven had threatened to withdraw the accreditation of the university that Akgunduz heads. "These are frightening remarks. We are going to have a special committee in order to make what he said clear and to decide how we should comment, but we must wait for the results of the committee’s findings first," she said.
This is not the first time that Akgunduz had stirred up controversy, as he had recently insulted critics of Erdogan and had called Kurds "dogs".
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