Summary of Sunni concepts Mu'tazilites and freedom of thought and opinion Many contemporaries claim that the Mu'tazila sect that emerged was among the first sects in Islam They are advocates of intellectual freedom in Islam And they are the owners of the enlightened mental school In fact, it is the opposite They are the separation that most prevents freedom of opinion and thought When they have power, they force people to believe and say what they believe They did this by saying that the Qur’an was created and they tested people on that And whoever does not respond to their opinion and agrees with it They fired him from his job or tortured him if he was a prominent scholar As they did to Imam Ahmed bin Hanbal, may God have mercy on him And other Sunni scholars who have proven the truth in this ordeal They showed people their error