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Criticizing to destroy is easy, thinking in order to build is much more difficult to achieve
Tariq Ramadan
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Tariq Ramadan
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: August 26
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One does not always know how to express the sorrow of the soul. One does not always know how to silence the joy of the heart.
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National politics and elections are dominated by emotions, by lack of self-confidence, by fear of the other, by insecurity, by infection of the body politic by the virus of victimhood.
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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 perception in the Arab world now is that we are having secularists against Islamists, and that's it. So the secularists are progressive the Islamists are reactionary, conservative. This perception is wrong.
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