Tariq Ramadan Quotes - Page 11

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• Unfortunately there are some trends that are changing this but you don't have for example as strict and narrow understanding of the relationship between men and women. And then there is the philosophy we have to extract in the relationship between text and culture.

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  Philosophy, Men, Understanding

  Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com

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• I don't like this vision that Turkey is successful because it is as successful as the western powers in economic terms. But I do think they are trying to find a new space in the multi-polar world, and this is what I am advocating. I don't think that Muslims have an alternative model.

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  Successful, Thinking, Turkeys

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• The problem with what we call the 'Arab spring' is that these are very nationalistic experiences. Tunisians are concerned with Tunisia, Egyptians concerned with Egypt and so on.

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  Spring, Egypt, Tunisia

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• Still I have been invited I don't know how many times to Turkey, where Turkey has been following very quickly in the footsteps of what is sometimes referred to as the movement of cyber-dissidents. They have been training young people and also encouraging them to come into contact with western Muslims.

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  Turkeys, People, Training

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• There is the philosophy embedded in the culture we are living. It is quite clear for example that Arabs have a different culture than Malaysians.

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  Philosophy, Example, Different

  Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com

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• There is One God. We have an epistemic center. There is meaning.

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  Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com

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• We have talked about revoking French citizenship for some individuals. Therefore, I have decided to apply for citizenship, which in a way points out the contradictions of this bill that states the forfeiture of French citizenship exclusively to individuals holding dual nationalities. Through this application, I put myself in the midst of the French political debate and discredit everything that might be said against me about this matter.

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  Political, Might, Bills

  Source: themuslimtimes.info

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• Nevertheless, I have no political agenda whatsoever, even though some might think the contrary.

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  Thinking, Political, Agendas

  Source: themuslimtimes.info

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• Muslim societies must leave behind these dual aspects: secularism/Islamism.

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  Aspect, Secularism, Behinds

  Source: themuslimtimes.info

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• What I see now is that even with the Islamists, who have been portraying themselves as the alternative to corruption and dictatorship and in defence of more transparency, there is one respect in which they have now changed completely. Since the beginning of the 1920's, Islamism was very close in positioning in some respects to 'liberation theology'. But that is no longer the case.

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  Alternatives, Corruption, Cases

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• No one can deny that some Islamist groups have credential and popularity. But that does not mean they are a majority. If we are serious about democracy we cannot blame the people for choosing what they want. We must promote the kinds of procedures and processes that are helping the people move ahead.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Moving, Mean, People

  "'You Want My Reaction? You Get My Silence'". Interview with Lars Mensel and Clemens Lukitsch, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. November 19, 2012.

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• In 2012, those French Muslim people voted massively for Francois Hollande against Nicolas Sarkozy. With the results of elections getting even tighter, those votes can make the difference. I am obviously not in favour of a "community electorate," however, pressure is so great on them that I can easily understand how it can affect their votes.

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  Differences, People, Community

  Source: themuslimtimes.info

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• I wouldn't call it naive but silly. History does not work like this. If you look at the dynamics of Eastern Europe or even Germany post reunification, you realize that change takes time. No one can deny the fact that we are still not there - I am advocating something which has to go from uprisings to revolutions. It is not coming straight away that it is not going to come but what we have to advocate is that the democratization process is always better than state dictatorship.

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  Silly, Europe, Uprising

  "You want my reaction? You get my silence". Interview with Lars Mensel and Clemens Lukitsch, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. November 19, 2012.

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• We should say to the West: "You have been supporting dictators for too many years. Don't expect the people to introduce democracy over night. It is going to take time." It took time with the French revolution, it took time with the Eastern European revolutions. And it is going to take time there.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Night, Years, People

  "'You Want My Reaction? You Get My Silence'". Interview with Lars Mensel and Clemens Lukitsch, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. November 19, 2012.

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• What you need to do is protect the structures and dynamics that are helping the people choose. The only thing that we can do is to respect the will of the people when it comes to majority processes. It is not for us to impose a model, it is not for us to impose answers to some critical questions.

  Tariq Ramadan

  People, Majority, Needs

  "'You Want My Reaction? You Get My Silence'". Interview with Lars Mensel and Clemens Lukitsch, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. November 19, 2012.

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• I'm working on different fields. One of my next books Insha'Allah will be a novel because it's important to explore the heart and imagination, the spiritual side. I've been working for twenty five years in the legal field and now I'm reaching what I want, which is an Islamic applied ethics and I'm also dealing with Muslims in the West.

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  Spiritual, Islamic, Book

  Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com

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• Shaking up whole region means that Israel needs the US for its safety and military camps are "flourishing" everywhere in the Middle East. It has been said that Barack Obama is less interested in the Middle East. I don't think so. This mess has been created and maintained. Maybe the US is pretending to be less interested, however, it allows them to take their power back when it comes to security.

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  Military, Mean, Thinking

  Source: themuslimtimes.info

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• Things need to be properly named. Political confusion starts with terminology confusion. Islamism implies some sort of political and social plan for Muslim people. In that classification, we find different categories.

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  People, Confusion, Political

  Source: www.middleeasteye.net

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• The point for me is people who are atheists or are coming from different religious traditions; they are coming from their own sources and specific roots. We should analyze these.

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  Religious, Atheist, Roots

  Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com

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• I am portrayed as a dangerous individual who can be fought thanks to their ideas.

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  Ideas, Thanks, Individual

  Source: themuslimtimes.info

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• You can't have anything happening today within the petro-monarchies, is going to be too risky for the United States and the oil interests there.

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  Oil, United States, Today

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• Unsettled Middle East, in these times where the people are trying to find their way towards democracy, could be interesting for many reasons - for weapons to be sold, for new geostrategic interests to be protected, and something that we are not talking about, which is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The people who are lost in the whole discussion here are the Palestinians. We have demonstrations in Palestine in West Bank. Nobody is covering this. It's as if they don't exist anymore. And this is, in fact, central. And Israel is silent.

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  Israel, Talking, Interesting

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• In the Muslim-majority countries you can't do without Islam, we can't do without their culture, in which way they are going to come back to this Islamic reference to find a way to deal with the true challenges and not the superficial political questions.

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  Country, Islamic, Political

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• Populism is everywhere. We have religious populism in the Muslim-majority countries as much as we have populism in the United States of America.

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  Country, Religious, America

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• What we have within the Sunni tradition is this clash between the literalists and all the other trends and the Salafi movement, that are very much acting on the ground and using the popular sentiment to act against the West.

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  Acting, Movement, Trends

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