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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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Tariq Ramadan
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: August 26
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We have to reconcile ourselves with philosophical questions in every field. Every field should be open to inquiry and knowledge.
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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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We can think of solutions in various theoretical ways, but it's not so on the ground. If they don't have a reference that helps them to belong, then they will end up excluding, and through that they get to feel that they belong on the basis of some narrow identity, language or color.
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We fail when we try to give simple answers to complicated problems.
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Don’t nurture a sense of guilt rather, nurture a sense of responsibility married with a sense of humility.
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If there is a smoke, there is a fire, the saying goes, That is quite true, but one should find what the fire is, and who lit it.
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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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You're a man, but the day you raise your voice to your mother, you're not anymore.
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I am portrayed as a dangerous individual who can be fought thanks to their ideas.
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Your sensitivity is power. Don't let people transform your qualities into weaknesses.
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The suicide bomber who blows up Israeli children cannot transform himself into a martyr. The Palestinian problem is not an Islamic problem.
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If you look at how great artists of the past, like Beethoven, for example dealt with art and morality, you see that there was torture and pain in their work, but there was also dignity in the way that was dealt with. So I don't buy this contemporary notion that the only way to be artistic is to be arrogant, offensive or immoral.
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Pray in the night so that you can change the world in the day
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Sometimes people confuse silence as wisdom when in fact it is compromise.
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The message of Islam asks you to be intellectually, spiritually, socially, and politically independent
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There is a Sufi trend, a madhabi Sufi trend, and I don't have any problem with this. What is not acceptable is that, first, some scholars are trying to show to the audience that they are open to other trends. However, when it comes to the retreat or the panels, they don't want to be with some of us because they are scared of being exposed.
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