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You're asking me how not to doubt. Good question.My answer is, you can't. This is life

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Tariq Ramadan
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: August 26
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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.
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Politics is mainly about interests. As Muslim citizens, we understand these interests but we should put principles and dignity beyond everything.
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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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Sometimes people confuse silence as wisdom when in fact it is compromise.
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The challenge for Muslims in America is to respect the fears of ordinary people while resisting the exploitation of those fears by political parties, lobbies and sectors of the media. To meet this challenge, Muslims must reassess their own involvement, behavior and contributions in American society.
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Tunisia's responsibility, and especially that of its political and intellectual elites, is enormous. All the protagonists of the nation's social, cultural, economic and political life must work to overcome useless and counterproductive polarisation, and to find solutions to domestic, regional and international problems.
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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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Stand up for your values, be courageous and humble
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We must delve deep into history the better to engage a true dialogue of civilisations. Fear of the present can impose upon the past its own biased vision.
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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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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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In its haste to bolster nationalism, in its obsession with security, Europe is losing its soul.
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We are in a world that is connected, but is not communicating.
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Lack of consistency is a weakness shared by all nations.
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The Turkish road is not my model because I am critical of the way you are dealing with freedom of expression, of how you are dealing with the treatment of minorities, and your economic vision.
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You can be a very charitable capitalist. Like [Nicola] Sarkozy was saying, we have to 'moralise capitalism', which for me is a contradiction in terms.
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For me I made it clear that I wanted to meet with both sides of the political spectrum.
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Do not respond to attacks with attacks. Respond with Mercy & Respect
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The strength of democratic societies relies on their capacity to know how to stand firm against extremism while respecting justice in the means used to fight terrorism.
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Islam doesn't need reform, we need to reform the Muslim mind.
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