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His answer, as an Islamic jurist, to the discourse that ties sexual assault to a woman's clothing: a woman's sin belongs to her alone, and it is not even permissible for a man to look at her.
In his interview of 10 December 2019 he answered this question with "There is no choice but to say yes"; he set out his reasoning through the examples of Erbakan, Morsi and İncirlik in 2003.
A crisis warning from one of his sermons was placed in the indictment of the 30 January 2018 file with the question "how did he know this"; Kuytul explains that this was not a prophecy but a sentence about consequences.
His answers, in three separate programmes within the ten days after his release, to the question of being arrested again: the coal-and-diamond analogy, that the appointed hour is but one, and that he is at home.
He explains why no other religious communities or orders spoke out during his 22-month detention by pointing to partisanship; as his criterion he cites Hazrat Ali's advice to at least make oppression known.
He describes the term he uses so often himself: the dominant bureaucracy that turns secularism into hostility toward Islam. He separates the government from it, because the grievance and the demand of the two are not the same.
While saying that anyone involved in the coup was guilty, he objected to those who were not involved being put in the same basket. His basis was two official figures: roughly 150,000 dismissals and the 11,480 people the prosecutor's office declared innocent.
In the written defence he submitted to the court he listed the three reasons he saw behind the operation of 30 January 2018: criticism of the AK Party, the plans of the deep state and, above all, his expounding of tawhid.
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