Washignton Post: DALLAS September 29, 2013 – In a lecture entitled “Human Dignity and the Constitution” at Alparslan University, Turkish Chief Justice Haşim Kılıç touched on the violence being perpetrated in Muslim countries and said, “If this is what is means to be a Muslim, then I am no Muslim.” The Chief Justice was attending a ceremony for the opening of the 2013-2014 academic year.

Only rarely does the West get to eavesdrop in on the self-criticism of Middle Eastern countries. In fact, a common complaint here in the West is that Muslim countries are not sufficiently critical of their own shortcomings. However, this perception is, like many perceptions, a skewed view of the truth.

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Chief Justice Kılıç made this very clear yesterday. He said, “If we were to just analyze Muslim countries in particular, such as Pakistan, Afghanistan, or India, and even closer to home, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria, they are all on fire. They are burning up. It is impossible to speak of human dignity in these places.

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