“The problem with Salafis is that they are religiously sincere and politically naïve. And they allow themselves to be supported by people who have no religious sincerity but who are politically very smart, especially when it comes to their economic interests.” PeopleProblemInterestReligiousEconomicSmartSincereSincerityVery Smart Author:Tariq Ramadan
“I think many thinkers and activists, even in the Islamist parties like the Muslim Brotherhood, and the people who left the Muslim Brotherhood to follow Abou el-Fatouh, these people do have an understanding that the relationship between religion and the state must be re-thought and re-assessed. They're not going to use the concept of secularism in any straightforward way, because the concept of secularism is still far too loaded in that part of the world.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayStillsStatesUseLeftUnderstandingPartyConceptsActivistThinkerBrotherhoodSecularismStraightforwardLoadedIslamistsMuslim Brotherhood Author:Tariq Ramadan
“The problem with what we call the 'Arab spring' is that these are very nationalistic experiences. Tunisians are concerned with Tunisia, Egyptians concerned with Egypt and so on.” ProblemSpringConcernedEgyptArab SpringNationalisticTunisia Author:Tariq Ramadan
“Still I have been invited I don't know how many times to Turkey, where Turkey has been following very quickly in the footsteps of what is sometimes referred to as the movement of cyber-dissidents. They have been training young people and also encouraging them to come into contact with western Muslims.” PeopleKnowsHas BeensStillsSometimesYoungKnow HowMovementTrainingWesternFollowingContactInvitedTurkeysFootstepsCyberDissidents Author:Tariq Ramadan
“We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother.” IfsBoysImagineTroubleCrimeBrotherStoresRanMy BrotherTerritoryChicagoGangsters Author:Quincy Jones
“I don't like this vision that Turkey is successful because it is as successful as the western powers in economic terms. But I do think they are trying to find a new space in the multi-polar world, and this is what I am advocating. I don't think that Muslims have an alternative model.” ThinkingWorldTryingTermSpaceVisionSuccessfulEconomicModelsWesternAlternativesTurkeysAdvocating Author:Tariq Ramadan
“An 'Islamic economy' or 'Islamic finance' doesn't mean anything to me. But I do think that in the multi-polar world, it is time to find new partners, to find a new balance in the economic order. And this could help you to find an alternative way forward.” ThinkingWorldWayMeanHelpingOrderEconomyEconomicBalancePartnersFinanceAlternativesIslamicWay ForwardEconomic Order Author:Tariq Ramadan
“Drafting of the constitutions is interesting and the discussions around them revealing in many ways. I take it as a discussion of very important symbols revealing many different problems. My take at the beginning was to warn that Tunisia might be the only successful country, the only one to justify us in talking about the spring, while all the other countries were less successful, if not failing. Now the point is that even in Tunisia it is not going to be easy, and this is where we have a problem.” IfsWayImportantDifferentCountryProblemMightEasyInterestingTalkingSuccessfulFailingSpringConstitutionSymbolsDiscussionJustifyOther CountriesRevealingDraftingTunisia Author:Tariq Ramadan
“The problem is that the constitution should have been and was an opportunity, exactly as Moncef Marzouki tried to do, to bring together the secularists and Islamists.” ShouldHas BeensProblemTogetherOpportunityShould HaveConstitutionShould Have BeenIslamists Author:Tariq Ramadan
“Listen, I am in the fighting game, I don't care about anything else.” CareFightingGamesDon't CareI Don't Care Author:Conor McGregor