Mr. Mustafa Akyol recently honored our podcast with a profound discussion on extremism and its distorted association with Islam. In this episode, Mr. Akyol reveals how extremists distort Islamic teachings to justify violence, using Iran as a case study to highlight the harmful impact on perceptions of Muslim societies while calling for tolerance and respect for differing beliefs—key tenets of true Islam.

Mustafa Akyol, a prominent Muslim modernist and reformer, is a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity and a senior lecturer at Boston College. He has made significant contributions to public policy, Islam, and modernity, and his work has appeared in renowned outlets like The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, BBC, and CNN.