Every woman and every man who does not take a position vis-à-vis the oppressors reveals indeed a selective humanism and an ambiguous ideology. So it is with Israel and Palestine.
Those who do not condemn the planned and continued colonisation of Palestine by the Israeli government, explicitly support illegality before international institutions.
Those who do not condemn the bombing of innocent civilians on the pretext that Israel defends itself are cowards with selective humanism who are blindly pro-Israel or are scared of Israel and its Zionist lobbies.
Those who do not recognize the legitimate resistance of the Palestinian people and their historic right to an independent government are dishonest and play with the facts, the law and justice. They are humanists with the powerful, and not with and for all men.
We knew that blind Zionists have these qualities… liars, cowards and not caring much about international law and the humanity of Palestinians. Unfortunately, this is the lot of almost all Arab, Western and Asian countries. Some exceptions still exist in Latin America or Africa.
The world is lacking of universal humanists, courageous, determined to defend the dignity of women and men without selection and want to enforce the law … even against the powerful.
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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]
This was originally posted on Dr. Tariq Ramadan’s Facebook account.
