Intellectual modesty is humility as to what I know; intellectual humility is modesty as to what I do not know Tariq Ramadan More Quotes by Tariq Ramadan More Quotes From Tariq Ramadan I am portrayed as a dangerous individual who can be fought thanks to their ideas. Tariq Ramadan thanks individual ideas 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. Tariq Ramadan islamic mean thinking I had no intention to cover my tracks since I am not a politician and I do not represent anybody. Tariq Ramadan intention track politician How can someone like Alain Juppé still claim I haven't condemned the Paris and Brussels attacks, when I actually have. What I am saying is crystal clear. Tariq Ramadan crystals paris claims The perception in the Arab world now is that we are having secularists against Islamists, and that's it. So the secularists are progressive; the Islamists are reactionary, conservative. This perception is wrong. Tariq Ramadan conservative perception world There are certain things that we cannot understand, like why we pray five times a day, for example. But the fact that we choose to pray is understandable. Tariq Ramadan example praying facts I have never, so far, in all the studies I have done, met a contradiction between what the human, experimental and natural sciences are telling us and the Islamic rules. In fact, the opposite is true: anything that is coming from the modern sciences is helping me better understand the text. It's not a contradiction. It's a relation. Tariq Ramadan islamic opposites facts The findings in contemporary social sciences are helping us understand that we can find other ways to educate people and act against injustice and corruption in our society. Tariq Ramadan our-society people way Since the uprisings in the Middle East many scholars have come out saying that freedom comes first before the Shariah. There is also something important that we must keep in mind in our understanding the Shariah, and that is the room for what is permissible should be as wide as possible. So we should leave it open to let people be creative. Tariq Ramadan uprising creative people Nevertheless, I have no political agenda whatsoever, even though some might think the contrary. Tariq Ramadan agendas political thinking What I see now is that even with the Islamists, who have been portraying themselves as the alternative to corruption and dictatorship and in defence of more transparency, there is one respect in which they have now changed completely. Since the beginning of the 1920's, Islamism was very close in positioning in some respects to 'liberation theology'. But that is no longer the case. Tariq Ramadan alternatives cases corruption There is One God. We have an epistemic center. There is meaning. Tariq Ramadan The point for me is people who are atheists or are coming from different religious traditions; they are coming from their own sources and specific roots. We should analyze these. Tariq Ramadan atheist religious roots No one can deny that some Islamist groups have credential and popularity. But that does not mean they are a majority. If we are serious about democracy we cannot blame the people for choosing what they want. We must promote the kinds of procedures and processes that are helping the people move ahead. Tariq Ramadan mean people moving I don't buy anything which is Islamization of knowledge. I don't understand what it means in fact. Tariq Ramadan mean facts Political confusion starts with terminology confusion. Tariq Ramadan terminology political confusion Islamism implies some sort of political and social plan for Muslim people. In that classification, we find different categories. Legalist ones, traditional ones and revolutionary ones. Some of them are revolutionary but are non-violent, others are extremely violent. There are also the ones we call the literalists, like the Egyptian party Hizb al-Nour that used to be against democracy and now is getting into the political game. Tariq Ramadan party games people 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. Tariq Ramadan turkeys training people There is the philosophy embedded in the culture we are living. It is quite clear for example that Arabs have a different culture than Malaysians. Tariq Ramadan different example philosophy Culture constitutes an essential element of social and political liberation. As people rise up across the Middle East and North Africa, the diversity of their cultures is not only the means but also the ultimate goal of their liberation and their freedom. Tariq Ramadan diversity goal mean
