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I am too old to think that numbers are creating change

Tariq Ramadan

Intellectual modesty is humility as to what I know; intellectual humility is modesty as to what I do not know
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Humility Intellectual Modesty
I am too old to think that numbers are creating change
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Create Numbers Think
I understand the need to serve the community by talking about marriage or halal food. But you should also lead with vision, wisdom and courage.
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Community Talk Vision
Discomfort levels in our societies are rising, or so it would seem. In theory, we invoke diversity and tolerance. But in real life, we raise our hackles and withdraw into ourselves.
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Diversity Real Tolerance
One does not always know how to express the sorrow of the soul. One does not always know how to silence the joy of the heart.
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Heart Joy Silence
We are in a world that is connected, but is not communicating.
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Communicate Connected World
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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Different Example Philosophy
Fasting is, first and foremost, an exercise for identifying and managing adversity in all its forms. With faith, in full conscience, fasting calls women and men to an extra degree of self-awareness.
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Adversity Exercise Men
Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
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Collective Memories Memory Spiritual
If you look at how we are destroying and disrespecting Creation it is obvious that is something is not clear in our understanding. We overemphasize rules but we don’t understand the objective.
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Creation Look Understanding
Your heart is the center of humility, your mind could be the source of arrogance.
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Arrogance Heart Humility
Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.
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Emotional Mindset Political
If we agree to say that those terrorists are indeed Muslim, I have no problem whatsoever to condemn their actions. I won’t apologise though, or justify my point of view.
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Action Condemn Problem View
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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Consumerism Doe Needs
Greek philosophy departs from the assumption that we can understand the world autonomously using our rational faculties. Islam is not saying this.
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Greek Philosophy Religious
Islam can only be modernized from within. If I state that I condemn the practice of stoning, that this punishment is despicable, it changes nothing. My fellow Muslims will say: Brother Tariq, you became a European, a Swiss citizen, so you are no longer one of us.
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Brother Practice Punishment

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