Ramadan is, in its essence, a month of humanist spirituality.

The problem with what we call the 'Arab spring' is that these are very nationalistic experiences. Tunisians are concerned with Tunisia, Egyptians concerned with Egypt and so on.

Islam doesn't need reform, we need to reform the Muslim mind.

In its haste to bolster nationalism, in its obsession with security, Europe is losing its soul.

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'.

In the Muslim-majority countries you can't do without Islam, we can't do without their culture, in which way they are going to come back to this Islamic reference to find a way to deal with the true challenges and not the superficial political questions.

You're a man, but the day you raise your voice to your mother, you're not anymore.