Posted on 06/04/2009 9:55:36 PM PDT by bronxville
MIDEAST: TARIQ RAMADAN, 'MUSLIMS WANT RESPECT AND HUMIILITY'
(ANSAmed) - ROME, JUNE 3 - According to the controversial Swiss intellectual and Islam scholar, Tariq Ramadan, a "change in attitude" and "effective and necessary action", a "real and profound message of respect" but above all "humility" are what the Muslim world expects in the keynote speech that USA President Barack Obama will be making tomorrow in Cairo.
In a statement sent to the press via email, Ramadan underlines how Obama has found himself having to "reverse the legacy" left by George W. Bush and his administration, who did not show "respect or fairness towards Muslims". Ramadan points out that, during his election campaign, Obama "often had to repeat that he was not a Muslim, as if that would have posed a problem for the American people".
Thus, "the first thing that can be expected" is that, by talking to the Muslim world, he will also be talking to the "US and the West". Ramadan confirmed that during the first few months of his presidency Obama "has shown respect for Islam, announced the closure of Guantanamo and an end to torture, and adopted a firm stance against the Israeli government with regard to the building of settlements".
These are "positive steps", but speeches "are not enough". The USA "does not have a monopoly on good and evil". Islam "is a great civilisation" and Obama "must announce that we all have something to learn from each other." In stressing "ideal values" and calling for "human rights",
Obama must also "admit American mistakes, failures and contradictions" in pursuing these aims, and he must show "humility" in acknowledging that the USA "can and will do more in order to respect the values that they are calling for."
It is only in this way that he can say to Muslims that "they must fight against corruption, fundamentalism, dictatorships, discrimination against women and poor people", and in order to be "listened to with a minimum of trust".
Ramadan concluded that Obama must make it understood that "after many years of deafness in Washington, he has finally listened". (ANSAmed).
Obama must also "admit American mistakes, failures and contradictions" in pursuing these aims, and he must show "humility" in acknowledging that the USA "can and will do more in order to respect the values that they are calling for."
humility about what may I ask
Thanks...bookmarked:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1979253/posts
I found it amazing that everything this Radaman ordered for the speech - Obama handed to him on a silver platter. They’re actually ordering us around and we’re obeying.
He left out the part about chopping the infidels head off.
You’re welcome bronxville.
Thanks for posting this piece, bronxville... this is beyond chilling.
Pinging a few FRiends to this very interesting thread. Here's a closer look at Tariq Ramadan:
The Pious Fraud - Tariq Ramadan, Islamist and equivocator (City Journal)
I wouldn’t be surprised if Obama and this guy Ramadan were big buddies.
Another infidel had his head chopped off today:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2265244/posts
No one seems to care anymore what with all this begging and bowing down we’re doing these days.
Wouldn't surprise me either...
1950s : (GENEVA, SWITZERLAND : TARIQ RAMADAN’S FATHER SAID RAMADAN FLEES EGYPT DURING A CRACKDOWN ON MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD AND SETTLES IN GENEVA — SEE MALCOLM X) In the late 1950’s, Mr. [Tariq] Ramadan’s father, Said, settled in Geneva after fleeing Egypt during a crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood. * Said Ramadan set up an Islamic center that became a European outpost of the Brotherhood, drawing visitors like Malcolm X. ————Mystery of the Islamic Scholar Who Was Barred by the U.S. [Tariq Ramadan]
New York Times ^ | WED October 6, 2004 | DEBORAH SONTAG
* TARIQ RAMADAN’S SPEECHWRITER IS DJAMEL BEGHAL OF “US EMBASSY-PARIS PLOT” FAME, WHOSE FELLOW CONSPIRATORS INCLUDE NIZAR TRABELSI & KAMEL DAOUDI
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/04/magazine/04ramadan.t.html
Tariq Ramadan Has an Identity Issue
By IAN BURUMA
Published: February 4, 2007
Thanks for the ping!
They might get more respect and humility if they would quit murdering people, taking hostages, destroying private property, and engaging in slavery.
Beghal was also one of the shoebomber’s associates, IIRC.
So do child rapists and homos.
Rebumping this in light of the goings-on in Egypt...
They want to blow up cities and build mosques over them like in NYC. Nuff said.
Oh and our left supports them fully on this since they’re mostly ‘brown people’ and they’re fundamentally superior cause of that.
Thanks for the ping piasa.
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