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" Advertising, music, atmospheres, subliminal messages and films can have an impact on our emotional life, and we cannot control it because we are not even conscious of it. "
Control
Music
Life
" 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. "
Rhetoric
Conflict
Political
" Clarity and consistency are not enough: the quest for truth requires humility and effort. "
Truth
Effort
Consistency
" 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. "
Diversity
Freedom
People
" Cultures, along with the religions that shape and nurture them, are value systems, sets of traditions and habits clustered around one or several languages, producing meaning: for the self, for the here and now, for the community, for life. "
Self
Value
Community
" Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion. "
Spiritual
Intelligence
Memory
" Discomfort levels in our societies are rising, or so it would seem. In theory, we invoke diversity and tolerance. But in real life, we raise our hackles and withdraw into ourselves. "
Tolerance
Diversity
Life
" Every country in Europe needs immigrants for its economic survival. "
Economic
Immigrants
Country
" Fasting is, first and foremost, an exercise for identifying and managing adversity in all its forms. With faith, in full conscience, fasting calls women and men to an extra degree of self-awareness. "
Faith
Women
Adversity
" 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. "
Fear
Political
Emotional
" Freedom of expression is not absolute. Countries have laws that define the framework for exercising this right and which, for instance, condemn racist language. "
Freedom
Language
Expression
" History is replete with ideologies of freedom, justice, liberation of the downtrodden and the exploited, that have been turned against the very people they had mobilised, or that have reproduced the same logic of exclusion and terror toward those whom they claimed to set free. "
People
History
Freedom
" If people who cherish freedom, who know the importance of mutual respect and are aware of the imperative necessity to establish a constructive and critical debate, if these people are not ready to speak out, to be more committed and visible, then we can expect sad, painful tomorrows. The choice is ours. "
Sad
Speak
Freedom
" If religious people deny paradise to their opponents or to 'non-believers,' atheists would likewise seek to eliminate 'dangerous' believers with their 'childish' ways and their heads in the clouds. "
Clouds
Paradise
People
" In its haste to bolster nationalism, in its obsession with security, Europe is losing its soul. "
Losing
Nationalism
Security
" Instantaneous and mass communication is the mother of mass naivety. Should we then lose hope? Is there any hope? But to lose hope is as dangerous as to nurture false hope. Where then can we find hope that is responsible? "
Find
Communication
Hope
" Instead of looking outside of ourselves and counting potential enemies, fasting summons us to turn our glance inward, and to take the measure of our greatest challenge: the self, the ego, in our own eyes and as others see us. "
Eyes
Ego
Challenge
" In the name of the rule of law, democracy and human rights, we cannot accept that the rights of individuals (Arab or Muslim) be trampled upon, or that populations are targeted and discriminated against in the name of the war against terrorism. "
Name
Human
Law
" It is of the highest importance to provide equal access to the labour market. Governments should act to establish equitable employment standards and penalise racial discrimination. "
Equal
Standards
Discrimination
" It is only through the opposition of ideas that we can learn to be self-critical, to work towards intellectual humility. "
Ideas
Work
Through
" I want to be an activist professor. "
Want
Professor
Activist
" Lack of consistency is a weakness shared by all nations. "
Weakness
Nations
Lack
" Malaysia is a country unlike any other: Full of promise and fragility. Its history, cultural and religious diversity make it a rich, compelling and surprising land. "
Diversity
Rich
Land
" Mankind must be positively and constructively wary of mankind, of their fellow man, of their families, of the members of their faith community, of their fellow-citizens. "
Must
Community
Fellow Man
" Many U.S. organizations believe that I am being barred from the country not because of my actions but because of my ideas. The conclusion seems inescapable. "
I Am
Ideas
Country
" Muslims must speak out and explain who they are, what they believe in, what they stand for, what is the meaning of their life. They must have the courage to denounce what is said and done by certain Muslims in the name of their religion. "
Life
Religion
Speak
" My experience of living with people of diverse religions and cultures taught me that one will never be at peace with the other if one is at war with oneself. "
War
Will
Experience
" National politics and elections are dominated by emotions, by lack of self-confidence, by fear of the other, by insecurity, by infection of the body politic by the virus of victimhood. "
Fear
Insecurity
Body
" No civilisation can claim to have a monopoly on universal values and no one can claim to be always faithful to his own values. "
Faithful
Values
Own
" Our democratic societies are in danger. In allowing ourselves to be infiltrated by fear, to be blinded by the passion of identity, we are entertaining the most serious illusions about our freedom. "
Freedom
Passion
Danger
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