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 ## Civic Consequence
 
 When these capacities are eroded or never built, **earthquakes kill via institutions**.
-The dead become proof of a civic order’s **inability to protect**.
+The dead become proof of a civic order's **inability to protect**.
 
-The BBC’s framing reduces Charlie Kirk’s criticism of Islam to mere bigotry, while ignoring the **evidentiary consequences of religious governance in practice**: collapsed institutions, preventable deaths, and systemic incapacity.
+The BBC's framing reduces Charlie Kirk's criticism of Islam to mere bigotry, while ignoring the **evidentiary consequences of religious governance in practice**: collapsed institutions, preventable deaths, and systemic incapacity.
 
 The **Civic Analyst** recognizes that critique of Islam is not a prejudice but a civic necessity: no modern republic that safeguards citizens through laws, standards, and professional institutions can reconcile itself with an absolutist framework that resists them.