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Cherish your tears and their reasons, they will be the light of your smile, your inner peace and reconciliation.
Tariq Ramadan
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Tariq Ramadan
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: August 26
Islamicist
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The 21st century - and the atheists - needs the presence of religion, just as religion must deal with the real challenges and the thinkers of the day in order to sharpen the conscience and the intelligence of those who study the timeless sacred texts in a spirit of responding to the questions of their time.
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Teach the heart not to give way to proud emotions and arrogant thinking bring the mind to heart-soothing solutions that make it possible to control oneself gently and wisely.
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Criticizing to destroy is easy, thinking in order to build is much more difficult to achieve
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I don't think we should take the emotional reactions of a few people as more representative than those of the millions of people who took to the street in a non-violent way against dictators.
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There is no faith, without a critical mind
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When I go back to the Quran I see that the context of Revelation is creation in its entirety. The universe is a Revelation and this of course includes nature, plants and animals. In other words, what is coming from the Quran as rules and objectives are set within the larger scheme of the universe and nature as part of Creation.
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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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In my book, the Arab Awakening, I talk about the fact that we have to move from this. All the contemporary ideologies of political Islam have been based on the nation state. The nation state is very problematic but I'm not sure if we have an alternative political model.
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Greek philosophy departs from the assumption that we can understand the world autonomously using our rational faculties. Islam is not saying this.
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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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To be more precise, it's ethics and liberation, and as a consequence there is an ethics of liberation.
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The discriminations that are found in the Muslim majority countries are more Cultural than Islamic. .... I have always said to the Muslim women, please do not nurture the victim mentality. Stand up for your rights.
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No civilisation can claim to have a monopoly on universal values and no one can claim to be always faithful to his own values.
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Islam doesn't need reform, we need to reform the Muslim mind.
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A Muslim should be sincerely religious AND politically aware.
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If you read the Qur'an with your head, you find repetition. If you read it with your heart, you find depth.
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In fact all the Islamists, that is the reformists not the Salafis, now they all say that they want a civil state, a civil state with Islamic reference points. They are not talking about an Islamic state, or sharia in the way this was once understood in the fight against the colonisers, or just afterwards in the 70's, 80's and 90's.
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I wrote a call to the contemporary Muslim conscience, saying to the ordinary people that we might not like the video or the cartoons, but that violence certainly isn't the right answer. I don't think laws are going to solve the problem.
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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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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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