We should know that the American administration is very much involved with the Egyptian army. And when you talk about the Egyptian army, we don't only talk about, you know, political power, we talk about economic power.
Tariq RamadanYou're asking me how not to doubt. Good question.My answer is, you can't. This is life
Tariq RamadanMuslims must decide, lest they end up divided by the very religion that calls upon them to unite.
Tariq RamadanI had no intention to cover my tracks since I am not a politician and I do not represent anybody.
Tariq RamadanI have never, so far, in all the studies I have done, met a contradiction between what the human, experimental and natural sciences are telling us and the Islamic rules. In fact, the opposite is true: anything that is coming from the modern sciences is helping me better understand the text. It's not a contradiction. It's a relation.
Tariq RamadanIslamism implies some sort of political and social plan for Muslim people. In that classification, we find different categories. Legalist ones, traditional ones and revolutionary ones. Some of them are revolutionary but are non-violent, others are extremely violent. There are also the ones we call the literalists, like the Egyptian party Hizb al-Nour that used to be against democracy and now is getting into the political game.
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