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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.

Tariq Ramadan

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 should not fool ourselves. When the Quran says wa la qad karamna Bani Adam [“we have honored the Children of Adam”] so yes we should all be free but this should not mean that we must act against the dignity of human beings.
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Children Mean Quran
Our emotions are often beautiful, but they can also be dangerous. They represent our spontaneity, and seem to speak to us of our freedom.
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Beautiful Emotion Speak
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
If you are not at peace with yourself then you cannot spread peace.
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Culture Peace Relax Spread
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
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
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
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
Teach the heart not to give way to proud emotions and arrogant thinking; bring the mind to heart-soothing solutions that make it possible to control oneself gently and wisely.
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Giving Heart Think
Your heart is the center of humility, your mind could be the source of arrogance.
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Arrogance Heart Humility
When you’re overwhelmed by your emotion, you listen less and you judge more. This is also the reality of the dogmatic mind.
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Judge Mind Reality
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
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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Games Political Religion
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

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