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Every country in Europe needs immigrants for its economic survival.

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Tariq Ramadan
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: August 26
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South Africa is labouring to find its revolutionary path the colours of the Rainbow Nation have difficulty blending together the wealthy elites (white, black or Indian) profit from de facto segregation.
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Your sensitivity is power. Don't let people transform your qualities into weaknesses.
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To be more precise, it's ethics and liberation, and as a consequence there is an ethics of liberation.
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The problem with Salafis is that they are religiously sincere and politically naïve. And they allow themselves to be supported by people who have no religious sincerity but who are politically very smart, especially when it comes to their economic interests.
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If we had not created a set of people against another the world would have been corrupt, and against here means two things: Against in the fact that they are challenging you with their diversity, challenging your intelligence and to challenge is not negative, it can be very positive depending on how you are challenged.
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Nature is telling us that if you don't respect the environment then you are living with artificial needs and a consumerism that is destroying the very conditions we need to survive.
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When Manuel Valls says there's nothing to understand because understanding is justifying, he echoes back to Georges W Bush's logic in 2001. When François Hollande says they are attacking us because of who we are, what does it say about victims in Mali, Baghdad, Ivory Coast or Turkey?
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Don’t nurture a sense of guilt rather, nurture a sense of responsibility married with a sense of humility.
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We want to tell people how great Islam is yet we are not great Muslims.
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The Truth does not belong to you, you belong to the Truth.
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There is One God. We have an epistemic center. There is meaning.
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A Muslim should be sincerely religious AND politically aware.
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Humility is my table, respect is my garment, empathy is my food and curiosity is my drink. As for love, it has a thousand names and is by my side at every window.
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We need more citizens that are committed and courageous.
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In its haste to bolster nationalism, in its obsession with security, Europe is losing its soul.
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Pray in the night so that you can change the world in the day
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Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
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We fail when we try to give simple answers to complicated problems.
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Muslims, scholars or not, are on the side of the oppressed and never on the side of the oppressors. Some scholars claim they don't do politics but if you listen to their statements in the Middle East or in other conferences, they support corrupt regimes and despots, such as as-Sissi.
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Serve humanity, regardless of religion. Show solidarity for those suffering and oppressed.
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