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I am too old to think that numbers are creating change

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Tariq Ramadan
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: August 26
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Always walking along despite the dangers and adversities, despite the injustices and horrors, trusting in God so as not to despair of men and events.
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When you're overwhelmed by your emotion, you listen less and you judge more. This is also the reality of the dogmatic mind.
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Part of the French political class is realising that there is are large number of Muslim people coming from the ghettos who want to make themselves heard, politically, especially about foreign policy issues. Its electoral weight can bring back to the forefront the Palestinian issue.
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Many times I have asked Muslim women not to nurture the victim mentality. stand up for your rights
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The dogmatic and, therefore, invulnerable core in Islam is understandably simple: acknowledgement of faith, prayer, charity and fasting. Almost everything else is open to interpretation and modification in space and time.
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There is something which is going to be one of the main challenges in the Muslim world today, in the Muslim-majority countries in the Arab world, is the religious credibility. How are you going to react to what is said about Islam? So, by touching the prophet of Islam, the reaction should be, who is going to be the guardian?
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When we begin to look around us, to observe individuals and societies, and to study philosophies and religions, we realize that our loneliness is shared. Our solitude is plural, and our singularity is the similarity between us.
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The Truth does not belong to you, you belong to the Truth.
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The media is putting a lot of emphasis on the few people that are destroying, while it won't report on the silent majority of people who are constructing, building and trying to find their way.
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It is important that the Muslim leaders, scholars, and intellectuals are much more vocal and explain what Islam is.
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The universality of Islam is not uniformity, it is unity with diversity.
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There is no faith, without a critical mind
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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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I think that political parties are fuelling this fear in order to create divisions. The more we bring up fear, the more we neglect real political issues. Political debate in France is crumbling since every single issue is brought to Islam now.
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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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For Muslims, the source of everything we do is based in the belief that there is one God, and this one God is revealing to us there is one humanity with equal dignity for each, beyond faith, color and social status. Whatever your status, color, background or religion, you have the same dignity.
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