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Timur Kuran

@timurkuran

Professor, Duke University. Economic and political development, social change, Islam, Middle East, Turkey.

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linkhttp://sites.duke.edu/timurkuran calendar_today09-07-2016 05:10:39

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Radikal adım mı lazım? İki öneri: (1) Sayın Cumhurbaşkanı ve çevresi kenara çekilsinler, (2) Ana icraatları (generallerin yargılanması, 2016’daki “darbe” ve sonrası, ekonomi yönetimi gibi) bağımsız kurullar tarafından incelensin, suç işlenmişse suçlular Yüce Divan’da yargılansın.

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Observers of the Middle East are now focused on the war in Gaza. However that war unfolds, out-conversions from Islam will play a huge role in shaping the Middle East’s future, as will the rising share of the ultra-Orthodox in Israel. (4/4)

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Gender ideology allows a man to use a women’s locker room simply by claiming he feels like a woman. To anyone with a tenth of a brain, the potential dangers to females should be obvious. (2/10)

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Many students hesitate to discuss controversial issues in the classroom and on campus. This reluctance spans across all class standings, from freshmen to seniors, indicating that time spent in college doesn't ease these concerns.

See the full report at heterodoxacademy.org/announcements/…

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That so few people seem outraged by gender ideology is a calamity of our time. Ignorance is a factor; few realize what’s happening. But fear of being labeled transphobic is also at work. Horrified people go along to avoid harassment or worse. (8/10)

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Throughout history and across the world, few things put people off religion more than the highest religious authorities deserting righteousness in the pursuit of power and influence. Religion is fundamentally about resisting the proximate urge to transgress due to a fear of…

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Gender ideology has catastrophic consequences for girls and women. At a time when (at least in the Anglosphere) universities provide safe spaces as shields against micro-aggressions, it eliminates female-only safe spaces that have existed since the dawn of history. (1/10)

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In a matter of two generations, Catholicism ceased to be Latin America’s overwhelmingly dominant religion. A similar transformation is under way with Middle Eastern Islam. Islam has lost ground over the past half-century also in Iran, and, to a lesser extent in Egypt. (3/4)

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Businesses are finding merit in institutional neutrality. “In the midst of what many expect to be the most toxic presidential campaign in modern history, American businesses are going to extraordinary lengths to stay off the political radar.” (Source: WSJ)

Businesses are finding merit in institutional neutrality. “In the midst of what many expect to be the most toxic presidential campaign in modern history, American businesses are going to extraordinary lengths to stay off the political radar.” (Source: WSJ)
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Radikal adım mı lazım? İki öneri: (1) Sayın Cumhurbaşkanı ve çevresi kenara çekilsinler, (2) Ana icraatları (generallerin yargılanması, 2016’daki “darbe” ve sonrası, ekonomi yönetimi gibi) bağımsız kurullar tarafından incelensin, suç işlenmişse suçlular Yüce Divan’da yargılansın.

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