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Professor Tariq Ramadan is a man of no need to introduction. He holds MA in Philosophy and French literature and PhD in Arabic and Islamic Studies from the University of Geneva. In Cairo, Egypt he received one-on-one intensive training in classic Islamic scholarship from Al-Azhar University scholars. Tariq Ramadan is Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies at Oxford University (Oriental Institute, St Antony’s College ). He is also teaching at the Faculty of Theology at Oxford. He is at the same time a Visiting Professor in Qatar (Faculty of Islamic Studies) and in Morocco (Mundiapolis) and a Senior Research Fellow at Doshisha University (Kyoto, Japan).[/symple_box]
There is a big difference between asserting a responsible word that, on the one hand, denounces and condemns the heinous acts committed in the name of our religion or our nation, and, on the other hand, cultivating a sense of guilt and self-flagellation. Every conscience must develop a critical loyalty: to have the courage to denounce and condemn those who act in the name of our religion and/or nation whereas they betray its very principles.
This does not mean, however, to have selective emotions and indignation depending on whether the victims are “ours” or not. Any innocent person who is murdered, any being who is tortured, any individual who is treated without dignity must find us standing up, consistent, clear and determined in our denunciation: whether it is a French, an American, an African, an Arab, a Palestinian, a Jew, a Christian, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Hindu, an Asian …
France mourns its dead people, as Syria, Iraq, Congo, Palestine, Afghanistan or Pakistan does. The extremist terror, the indiscriminate violence through drones, the death of so many innocent people, the legalized torture is intolerable, appalling, and unacceptable. What is happening today is not an issue for the Muslims invited, again and again, to apologize … it is the responsibility of all of us, all human beings, as we are called to stand up and denounce, together, all the horrors, wherever they are in the name of our principles, on behalf of all victims, with the same force, the same determination, the same courage.
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Professor Tariq Ramadan is a man of no need to introduction. He holds MA in Philosophy and French literature and PhD in Arabic and Islamic Studies from the University of Geneva. In Cairo, Egypt he received one-on-one intensive training in classic Islamic scholarship from Al-Azhar University scholars. Tariq Ramadan is Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies at Oxford University (Oriental Institute, St Antony’s College ). He is also teaching at the Faculty of Theology at Oxford. He is at the same time a Visiting Professor in Qatar (Faculty of Islamic Studies) and in Morocco (Mundiapolis) and a Senior Research Fellow at Doshisha University (Kyoto, Japan).[/symple_box]
