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Tariq Ramadan
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: August 26
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The Truth does not belong to you, you belong to the Truth.
Tariq Ramadan
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.
Tariq Ramadan
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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There is great potential and deep fragility [in Malaysia] that can be used by any group that stresses on religion, pushing towards Islam, rejecting people and alienating migrants - anything can be used to win the next elections. So these are the signs of fragility that is very much there.
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To live is to love,to serve, to forgive. Love the One, love and serve humanity. To learn to love oneself and to love is to learn to forgive
Tariq Ramadan
Your country needs religious leaders and religious politicians
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Islam, as a religion, has been established in France for a long time, and the religious question has been resolved in this country. Islam does not threaten France's future in any way.
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Culture constitutes an essential element of social and political liberation. As people rise up across the Middle East and North Africa, the diversity of their cultures is not only the means but also the ultimate goal of their liberation and their freedom.
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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.
Tariq Ramadan
Islam is a religion of justice and dignity, and we are taught to never keep silent when facing injustice, discrimination and double standards.
Tariq Ramadan
In its haste to bolster nationalism, in its obsession with security, Europe is losing its soul.
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In Islam, rules are important, like the Prophet said innal halaala bayyinun, wa innal haraama bayyinun [what is halal is clear, what is haram is clear]. The goal is not to diminish the importance of rules, but to have the right priorities.
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It is important that the Muslim leaders, scholars, and intellectuals are much more vocal and explain what Islam is.
Tariq Ramadan
The message of Islam asks you to be intellectually, spiritually, socially, and politically independent
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Our emotions are often beautiful, but they can also be dangerous. They represent our spontaneity, and seem to speak to us of our freedom.
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I don't like this vision that Turkey is successful because it is as successful as the western powers in economic terms. But I do think they are trying to find a new space in the multi-polar world, and this is what I am advocating. I don't think that Muslims have an alternative model.
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The West hasn't been naïve, it has been patronizing the South by imposing its own views on what should be done - ironically after having been so close and so supportive of dictators who were not respecting the people.
Tariq Ramadan
The most dangerous prisons are those with invisible bars
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We want to tell people how great Islam is yet we are not great Muslims.
Tariq Ramadan