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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.
Tariq Ramadan
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Tariq Ramadan
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: August 26
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