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For me I made it clear that I wanted to meet with both sides of the political spectrum.

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I am too old to think that numbers are creating change
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Create Numbers Think
To have a moral sense is not to be dogmatic in dealing with rules. It can be an open way with dealing with questions of objectives and purpose, which is completely different.
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Different Purpose Way
Your country needs religious leaders and religious politicians
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Country Leader Religious
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
Having traveled a lot and met people from different horizons it makes you more humble and ready to listen.
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Different Humble People
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
For me I made it clear that I wanted to meet with both sides of the political spectrum.
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Made Political Side Spectrum
We must re-center philosophy within our frame of reference which I think is the way to deal with it.
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Philosophy Think Way
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
We need modesty not only in the way we dress; we need intellectual modesty.
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Dresses Intellectual Need
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
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.
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Fire Lit Quite Say Should
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
Your heart is the center of humility, your mind could be the source of arrogance.
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Arrogance Heart Humility
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
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

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