Tariq Ramadan
Tariq Ramadan
Tariq Ramadanis a Swiss academic, philosopher and writer. He is the professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies in the Faculty of Oriental Studies at St Antony's College, Oxford and also teaches at the Oxford Faculty of Theology. He is a visiting professor at the Faculty of Islamic Studies, the Université Mundiapolisand several other universities around world. He is also a senior research fellow at Doshisha University. He is the director of the Research Centre of Islamic Legislation and Ethics, based in...
NationalitySwiss
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth26 August 1962
CountrySwitzerland
Don't treat people the way they treat you. Treat them better.
We are not here to adopt Western values, we are here to colonize the U.S. (and Canada) and spread Islamic sharia law Canada has one of the easiest legal systems to penetrate and advance sharia from within...but if that doesn't work, we won't hesitate to use violent jihad.
The universe is pregnant with signs that recall the presence of the Creator.
Only in the crucible of self-mastery can freedom be smelted
Your country needs religious leaders and religious politicians
If people who cherish freedom, who know the importance of mutual respect and are aware of the imperative necessity to establish a constructive and critical debate, if these people are not ready to speak out, to be more committed and visible, then we can expect sad, painful tomorrows. The choice is ours.
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.
It is only through the opposition of ideas that we can learn to be self-critical, to work towards intellectual humility.
Mankind must be positively and constructively wary of mankind, of their fellow man, of their families, of the members of their faith community, of their fellow-citizens.
We have to be the media when media is silent
We integrate the good wherever we find it.
There are certain things that we cannot understand, like why we pray five times a day, for example. But the fact that we choose to pray is understandable.
I'm not talking about reforming #Islam..it is to reform the #Muslim minds & the Muslim understandings of the texts.
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.