[Unedited] Mustafa Akyol with Krista Tippett

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🗓️ 12 July 2012

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Mustafa Akyol is a Turkish columnist for the English-language Hürriyet Daily News. He’s also the author of “Islam without Extremes: A Muslim Case For Liberty.” This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode “Mustafa Akyol — Religion, Democracy, and the New Turkey.” Find more at onbeing.org.

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0:00.0	This is On Being's Unheard Cut. I'm Christa Tippett. You're listening to my
0:04.5	unedited conversation with Mustafa Akhil. He's a Turkish political commentator
0:09.3	and author of the book Islam Without Extremes, a Muslim case for liberty. I spoke
0:15.4	with him on June 12, 2012, in his apartment in Istanbul, Turkey. Download the MP3
0:21.4	of the produced show with Mustafa Akhil at OnBeing.org.
0:30.0	Oh, okay, do you want me to? Yes, I do. Hi. Hi. You could listen to your wife. Oh, listen to
0:42.0	your wife. Oh, listen, you're like, big team. Do you find something to eat? I'm okay. I
0:48.6	got some water. Can I serve you guys something? So thanks for finding me.
1:17.7	My pleasure. I'm really glad to be here. It is, but I'm coming back. I already know. I
1:26.6	just got here yesterday. We're staying at a small hotel, what's it called?
1:34.1	The trip originally got planned because Bartholomew invited me to come help him
1:44.2	lead a discussion on, it's called, it's an environmental summit. Yeah, yeah, so that you
1:52.8	were supposed to go there. I was supposed to go around skip because I'm applying to him.
2:00.8	They scheduled it and then the Rio Summit dates were set. And so some people are having
2:05.3	to fly straight from from Tokyo to Rio, which sounds like really bad jet lag to me. Can
2:13.3	you imagine? I mean, Jane Goodall, who lives in wherever she lives, flying to Istanbul and
2:20.2	then or Africa. Yeah, or she lived in California. Okay, it's really nice here.
2:30.9	Why do we, should that wear something a little more decent? No, you'll show everything like
2:41.8	the trousers or something. No, they don't wear a mirror. They'll be from here.
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3:16.4	But it looks a lot like the cat world with the pilgrims. Oh. Yeah. That's very cool.
3:26.4	Christ, I am going to have him say his name for me at the beginning. I'm going to write it down right now. Say your name.
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