Terror will crash down on us if we fail to understand that a pluralistic society requires the personal and daily commitment of every citizen.
Ramadan is, in its essence, a month of humanist spirituality.
Our pluralist society must provide its citizens with the tools to understand religions, their symbols and their practices.
No civilisation can claim to have a monopoly on universal values and no one can claim to be always faithful to his own values.
Every country in Europe needs immigrants for its economic survival.
The only way to resist colonialism is through education.
In its haste to bolster nationalism, in its obsession with security, Europe is losing its soul.
I want to be an activist professor.
Violence against embassies and civilians must be categorically condemned. At the same time, we must attempt to understand why such events occur.
Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.
Acknowledged differences may create mutual respect, but hazy misunderstandings bring forth nothing but prejudice and rejection.
Being Muslim has become synonymous with pointed questions, with tension and mistrust, even with conflict. It has become a global phenomenon with profound consequences for inter-communal relations, political rhetoric and policies at the local, regional, national and international level.
There is dignity in your being even if there’s indignity in what you’re doing.
We have to be the media when media is silent.
Muslims must decide, lest they end up divided by the very religion that calls upon them to unite.
The philosophical connection between the Islamic world and the West is much closer than I thought. Doubt did not begin with Descartes. We have this construction today that the West and Islam are entirely separate worlds. This is wrong.
The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.
If there is a smoke, there is a fire, the saying goes, That is quite true, but one should find what the fire is, and who lit it.
And the crowd often betrayed the people.
Lack of consistency is a weakness shared by all nations.