Israel Quotes by Tariq Ramadan

Jihadists are acting against the interests of every single country.

— Tariq Ramadan

A Muslim should be sincerely religious AND politically aware.

— Tariq Ramadan

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

— 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

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

I don't buy anything which is Islamization of knowledge. I don't understand what it means in fact.

— Tariq Ramadan

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

— 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

The perception in the Arab world now is that we are having secularists against Islamists, and that's it. So the secularists are…

— 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

To Islamize doesn't make sense to me. But to center, but to have intellectual empathy and modesty - all these dimensions are…

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

— Tariq Ramadan

If we agree to say that those terrorists are indeed Muslim, I have no problem whatsoever to condemn their actions. I won't…

— Tariq Ramadan

The challenge for Muslims in America is to respect the fears of ordinary people while resisting the exploitation of those fears by…

— Tariq Ramadan

The Muslim contribution to the future of America is to not only speak out as Muslims, but to also speak out as…

— Tariq Ramadan

The very moment you understand that being a Muslim and being American or European are not mutually exclusive, you enrich your society.…

— Tariq Ramadan

This is the problem we have with many Muslim leaders: They claim to differentiate between domestic and foreign issues and they are…

— Tariq Ramadan

I focus on Islamic applied ethics in many fields, and here I am saying that coming back to the Qu'ran and the…

— Tariq Ramadan

51% of the French people - who are not very religious - were thinking that what "Charlie Hebdo" did was unwise. They…

— Tariq Ramadan

Emancipation can only come from within; it cannot be dictated by someone else. A law banning the wearing of headscarves changes nothing,…

— Tariq Ramadan

The dogmatic and, therefore, invulnerable core in Islam is understandably simple: acknowledgement of faith, prayer, charity and fasting. Almost everything else is…

— 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

The nature of the state is one thing, but there are other major challenges - what it will take to tackle the…

— 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

Unsettled Middle East, in these times where the people are trying to find their way towards democracy, could be interesting for many…

— 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

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

— 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

I talk to the young generation and advise them to be both fully Muslim and fully Western citizens, to be free, to…

— 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

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

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

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

Compelling a woman to wear a headscarf is against Islam, and compelling her to remove it is against human rights.

— Tariq Ramadan