Islam Quotes by Tariq Ramadan

Many times I have asked Muslim women not to nurture the victim mentality. stand up for your rights

— Tariq Ramadan

A Muslim should be sincerely religious AND politically aware.

— Tariq Ramadan

The message of Islam asks you to be intellectually, spiritually, socially, and politically independent

— Tariq Ramadan

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

— Tariq Ramadan

We want to tell people how great Islam is yet we are not great Muslims.

— Tariq Ramadan

Islam has no problem with women, but Muslims do clearly appear to have serious problems with them

— Tariq Ramadan

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

— Tariq Ramadan

There is nothing more Islamic than critical thinking.

— Tariq Ramadan

The logic of freedom of religion implies freedom to be an atheist, even though, from a historical perspective, this has not been…

— Tariq Ramadan

The Islamic world is obsessed with the notion of strong leaders. This is a mistake. We don't need powerful leaders, but rather…

— Tariq Ramadan

The great majority of Americans do not know much about Islam but nonetheless fear it as violent, expansionist and alien to their…

— Tariq Ramadan

The discriminations that are found in the Muslim majority countries are more Cultural than Islamic. … I have always said to the…

— Tariq Ramadan

Islam came to teach us that there is no faith without intelligence and here we are: destroying our intelligence in the name…

— Tariq Ramadan

It is important that the Muslim leaders, scholars, and intellectuals are much more vocal and explain what Islam is.

— Tariq Ramadan

Populism is everywhere. We have religious populism in the Muslim-majority countries as much as we have populism in the United States of…

— Tariq Ramadan

Islam, as a religion, has been established in France for a long time, and the religious question has been resolved in this…

— Tariq Ramadan

I am saying the same to Muslims in the global South, telling them: "Just ignore what is done." However, in the Southern…

— Tariq Ramadan

Part of the French political class is realising that there is are large number of Muslim people coming from the ghettos who…

— Tariq Ramadan

Islam can only be modernized from within. If I state that I condemn the practice of stoning, that this punishment is despicable,…

— Tariq Ramadan

There is something which is going to be one of the main challenges in the Muslim world today, in the Muslim-majority countries…

— Tariq Ramadan

In 2012, those French Muslim people voted massively for Francois Hollande against Nicolas Sarkozy. With the results of elections getting even tighter,…

— Tariq Ramadan

As Western Muslims and American Muslims, we need to understand that the values and principles we promote are not only Muslim values.…

— Tariq Ramadan

I wrote a call to the contemporary Muslim conscience, saying to the ordinary people that we might not like the video or…

— Tariq Ramadan

Being Muslim has become synonymous with pointed questions, with tension and mistrust, even with conflict. It has become a global phenomenon with…

— Tariq Ramadan

Things need to be properly named. Political confusion starts with terminology confusion. Islamism implies some sort of political and social plan for…

— Tariq Ramadan

As Muslims, our interests are our values. In any society, be it in Western or Muslim-majority countries, our duty is that of…

— Tariq Ramadan

The singularity of Islam is its universality. As American citizens and as Muslims, you need to show there is something specific, namely…

— Tariq Ramadan

Shouldn't the American leadership be addressing what is happening in America, with its domestic policies on racism, discrimination, illegal monitoring, solitary confinement,…

— Tariq Ramadan

Salafi is a very broad concept in Islam. What we have now is, like, for example, the Nour Party in Egypt or…

— Tariq Ramadan

It is like using a smoke screen, the same thing for an individual. The topic here is Islam. If French politicians are…

— Tariq Ramadan

The fact that this organisation is called the Islamic State reveals something even deeper. In fact, it implies that every single Islamist…

— Tariq Ramadan

As Muslims, we must have an active presence based on ethical and moral consistency. We need to be very vocal, to inform…

— Tariq Ramadan

“From the very start, the Prophet did not conceive the content of his message as the expression of pure otherness versus what…

— Tariq Ramadan

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

— Tariq Ramadan

Muslims must decide, lest they end up divided by the very religion that calls upon them to unite.

— Tariq Ramadan

To pray without remembering the Unique One is no longer to pray.

— Tariq Ramadan

The Truth does not belong to you, you belong to the Truth.

— Tariq Ramadan

A good Muslim is not one who is strictest in his judgment, but who is most patient in listening.

— Tariq Ramadan

The universality of Islam is not uniformity, it is unity with diversity.

— Tariq Ramadan

In sha Allah, God willing, must be the expression of humility of the active actors and it must never be the justification…

— Tariq Ramadan