Divides Quote by Nawal El Saadawi

In fact all the Islamists, that is the reformists not the Salafis, now they all say that they want a civil state, a civil…

— Tariq Ramadan

“In contemporary parlance, the term Salafi has come to acquire many different connotations. It has been used to refer to some groups who consider…

— Muhammad Qasim Zaman

There was not a single Islamic slogan [in Egypt]. It was secular men and women, and in fact, they were unified. Now they want…

— Nawal El Saadawi

“I believe that the Salafi slogan of “Follow the Daleel from Quran and Sunnah” is used or abused (inadvertently or not) to sever the…

— Sadi Kose

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

— Tariq Ramadan

The problem with Salafis is that they are religiously sincere and politically naïve. And they allow themselves to be supported by people who have…

— Tariq Ramadan

Everywhere the Salafi are pushing by saying, "We are the guardian, and we are resisting any kind of relationship to the West or provocation…

— Tariq Ramadan

Salafists are fundamentalists who dedicate their lives to religious preaching, converting non-believers and defending the strict moral codes of Islamic law. Salafists are generally…

— Richard Engel

The Arab spring confirmed that peaceful change is possible and so reinforced the vision of political Islam. The impact of this went beyond the…

— Wadah Khanfar

There is not a revolution that succe Saudi Arabia paid $7 billion for the Salafists to come, and the United States and Israel are…

— Nawal El Saadawi

“After the fall of Mubarak, Salafist groups had been sprouting throughout Egypt. Nobody knew where they came from. But they were blamed for a…

— John R. Bradley

What we have within the Sunni tradition is this clash between the literalists and all the other trends and the Salafi movement, that are…

— Tariq Ramadan