When you're overwhelmed by your emotion, you listen less and you judge more. This is also the reality of the dogmatic mind.

Just take Germany and the suffering of Jews during and after the Second World War. It would be legal to ridicule and to laugh at this suffering, but since it was such a trauma on the European conscience, no one is going to do it. It is an open scar, an open wound, an open reality.

Arabic is the language of the Qur'an, but Arab culture is not the culture of Islam.

The problem, once again, as in all sciences is the attitude of the mind that is dealing with whatever field. The problem is not philosophy but the lack of intellectual humility. It is when reason becomes arrogant that we lose track. But intellectual humility with science: this is spirituality - this is the way we are with God. So we should not be scared and we must reconcile ourselves.

Proud to be a Muslim isn't a stamp you have on your heart, it's a light you have in your heart.

No civilisation can claim to have a monopoly on universal values and no one can claim to be always faithful to his own values.

I'm not talking about reforming #Islam..it is to reform the #Muslim minds & the Muslim understandings of the texts.