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Tell me what you are doing with your suffering, and I will tell you who you are.

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Tariq Ramadan
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: August 26
Islamicist
Philosopher
Theologian
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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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I believe my religion is the truth, but I am not the truth and the truth doesn't belong to me I'm trying to belong to the truth.
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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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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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The message of Islam asks you to be intellectually, spiritually, socially, and politically independent
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In its haste to bolster nationalism, in its obsession with security, Europe is losing its soul.
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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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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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To be more precise, it's ethics and liberation, and as a consequence there is an ethics of liberation.
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Islam doesn't need reform, we need to reform the Muslim mind.
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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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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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Only in the crucible of self-mastery can freedom be smelted
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We must re-center philosophy within our frame of reference which I think is the way to deal with it.
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The best measure of a successful life is the way we turn away, we renounce, and even by the way we depart it.
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The most dangerous prisons are those with invisible bars
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Lack of consistency is a weakness shared by all nations.
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Our democratic societies are in danger. In allowing ourselves to be infiltrated by fear, to be blinded by the passion of identity, we are entertaining the most serious illusions about our freedom.
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The United States of America or the Western countries, they don't have a problem with Islamists as long as they are neoliberal capitalists and promoting the economic order. And the best example is the petro-monarchies. The petro-monarchies, they don't want democracy. They say there is no democracy in Islam. But they are within the economic system.
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