The Limits to Self-Criticism in the Muslim World | Middle East Forum

Murat Yetkin, our editor-in-chief, mentioned in his Sept. 24 column “a self-criticism of the Islamic world by a top Turkish official in Mecca.” Indeed, it was important that Turkey’s top Muslim cleric, Professor Mehmet Görmez, the head of the Religious Affairs Directorate (Diyanet), said that “[Muslims] failed to do our works with justice, mercy and love. We called violence as jihad, oppression as victory.” He also condemned “movements like al-Qaeda and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) as ‘terrorism.'”