Tariq Ramadan Islam Quotations

The great majority of Americans do not know much about Islam but nonetheless fear it as violent, expansionist and alien to their society. The problem to overcome is not hatred, but ignorance.

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

The more I know, the best I believe. The more I know, the best I'm worshiping Him. Because, in the end Allah knows the best.

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

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

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

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

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

It is like using a smoke screen, the same thing for an individual. The topic here is Islam. If French politicians are no longer talking about Islam, they know they will have to talk about something else, which brings the spotlight on their inefficiency. They will have to talk about domestic social and economic issues and they will have to justify their foreign policy, which is obviously something they need to avoid at all costs.

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

Greek philosophy departs from the assumption that we can understand the world autonomously using our rational faculties. Islam is not saying this.

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

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

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