Tariq Ramadan Quotes - Page 8

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• Muslims, scholars or not, are on the side of the oppressed and never on the side of the oppressors. Some scholars claim they don't do politics but if you listen to their statements in the Middle East or in other conferences, they support corrupt regimes and despots, such as as-Sissi.

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  Support, Middle East, Sides

  "Tariq Ramadan: My Absence Would Certainly Be The Most Powerful Speech I Have Ever Given At ISNA". The Islamic Monthly Interview, www.theislamicmonthly.com. August 14, 2014.

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• Sometimes people confuse silence as wisdom when in fact it is compromise.

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  People, Silence, Facts

  "Tariq Ramadan: My Absence Would Certainly Be The Most Powerful Speech I Have Ever Given At ISNA". The Islamic Monthly Interview, www.theislamicmonthly.com. August 14, 2014.

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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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  Country, Order, America

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• Anyone who tries to separate or divorce domestic politics from international politics does not get it, and that might be dangerous for the future of Western Muslims.

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  Divorce, Trying, Doe

  "Tariq Ramadan: My Absence Would Certainly Be The Most Powerful Speech I Have Ever Given At ISNA". The Islamic Monthly Interview, www.theislamicmonthly.com. August 14, 2014.

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• I don't buy anything which is Islamization of knowledge. I don't understand what it means in fact.

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  Mean, Facts

  Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com

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• The fact that this organisation is called the Islamic State reveals something even deeper. In fact, it implies that every single Islamist party in Egypt, Iraq or Tunisia are not really representing Islam and Muslim people. Nowadays, political Islam is going through a crisis, however this crisis is necessary, for it will lead to a changing way of thinking. In order to make it out of this dead-end, reviewing political Islam becomes mandatory.

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  Islamic, Party, Thinking

  Source: themuslimtimes.info

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• National politics and elections are dominated by emotions, by lack of self-confidence, by fear of the other, by insecurity, by infection of the body politic by the virus of victimhood.

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  Self Confidence, Insecurity, Viruses

  "Europe hands its soul to the right" by Tariq Ramadan, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2009.

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• I focus on Islamic applied ethics in many fields, and here I am saying that coming back to the Qu'ran and the sunnah as our reference point does not mean that we depend for our ethics on 'Islam as opposed to the others'.

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  Islamic, Mean, Here I Am

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• We cannot have a free market since it does not really set us free. It's free for interest, speculation and consumerism to create false needs.

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  Doe, Needs, Consumerism

  Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com

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• The philosophical connection between the Islamic world and the West is much closer than I thought. Doubt did not begin with Descartes. We have this construction today that the West and Islam are entirely separate worlds. This is wrong.

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  Philosophical, Islamic, Doubt

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• Saying that the origin of the Islamic State (IS) is within the Muslim Brotherhood organisation only strengthens IS. This is what the Israeli government asserts when claiming that Hamas and IS are the exact same thing. By saying so, the historical resistance [against the Israeli occupation] is viewed as unlawful, called extremism and terrorism.

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  Islamic, Government, Historical

  Source: themuslimtimes.info

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• What is irreversible in the Arab world is this intellectual revolution, the awakening that we can get rid of dictators. That is here, and the people have this sentiment and this political power. They feel that they can do it, and it's still there. At the same time, we don't know what is going to happen. So to be very quick by saying, "Oh, revolutions and Arab Spring," and - you know, what I'm advocating is to take a cautious optimism as the starting point of our analysis and to look at what is happening.

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  Spring, Optimism, People

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• In my book Radical Reform I made it clear that we cannot talk about the environment or ecology if we don't also deal with the economy. There is a direct link between how we deal with the economy and how we deal with nature.

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  Book, Reform, Links

  Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com

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• You cannot limit the debate to being solely in favour or against. It should be more complex. When you condemn, you need to understand what led to it. In general, if it is our responsibility to condemn terrorist actions after they had happened, we have an even greater responsibility beforehand to make sure they won't happen.

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  Responsibility, Favour, Needs

  Source: themuslimtimes.info

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• IS [Islamic State] has played a major role in helping Bashar al-Assad to reposition Syria on the international scene. Now, it is almost impossible to come up with a solution that would exclude him. The political game appears to be very cynical indeed.

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  Islamic, Games, Political

  Source: themuslimtimes.info

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• The Islamic world is obsessed with the notion of strong leaders. This is a mistake. We don't need powerful leaders, but rather unconventional, progressive thinkers with the courage to open our minds.

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  Strong, Powerful, Mistake

  "They Live in a Bleak, Devastated Universe". Interview with Erich Follath and Romain Leick, www.spiegel.de. November 14, 2005.

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• Acknowledged differences may create mutual respect, but hazy misunderstandings bring forth nothing but prejudice and rejection.

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  Differences, Rejection, Prejudice

  Tariq Ramadan (2009). “Islam, the West and the Challenges of Modernity”, p.2, Kube Publishing Ltd

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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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  Doubt, Good Questions, Asking

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• Even the concept of the infidel is misleading, because the infidel is normally someone with a different faith, someone who refuses to recognize the truth of the words of the Koran, as revealed by God. He has every right to do so, as long as he does not question my right to believe in my truth.

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  Believe, Long, Doe

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The challenge for Muslims in America is to respect the fears of ordinary people while resisting the exploitation of those fears by political parties, lobbies and sectors of the media. To meet this challenge, Muslims must reassess their own involvement, behavior and contributions in American society.

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  Party, Media, America

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• Serve humanity, regardless of religion. Show solidarity for those suffering and oppressed.

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  Humanity, Suffering, Solidarity

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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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  Suicide, Children, Islamic

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• Prayer is better than to sleep. Wake up. Wake up & pray. This is the way you free yourself.

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  Prayer, Sleep, Wake Up

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• The BRIC countries - Brazil, India, China, Turkey, South Africa, Indonesia even, and Russia - are now new actors. Over the last eight years, China multiplied by seven its economic presence and penetration in the Middle East. And if this happens on economic terms and there is a shift towards the East, the relationship between these countries and Israel is completely different from the United States. And it means that the challenges are going to be different, because China is not supporting Israel the way the U.S. are supporting Israel.

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  Country, Mean, Years

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• We have to be very cautious not to accept the scam of polarization we see in the media. It is not in fact between secularists and Islamists, it is a battle within the Islamic reference.

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  Islamic, Media, Battle

  "'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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