Criticizing to destroy is easy, thinking in order to build is much more difficult to achieve
Tariq RamadanI had no intention to cover my tracks since I am not a politician and I do not represent anybody.
Tariq RamadanI am talking about anything that is a provocation - ignore it. When something falls under freedom of expression, you can read it and take a critical distance.
Tariq RamadanThings need to be properly named. Political confusion starts with terminology confusion. Islamism 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.
Tariq Ramadan