Brother Tariq: The Doublespeak of Tariq Ramadan by Caroline Fourest

Author:Caroline Fourest [Fourest, Caroline]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Published: 2009-01-28T07:45:00+00:00

Ramadan never risks distancing himselffrom the seventh century. Above all, if it is a question of discouraging habits that run counter to the dawa, the expansion of the Muslim faith, which is his primary mission. He himself, who married a former Catholic, is the first to approve of a man capable of winning the heart of a non-Muslim and thus converting her. But he remains inflexible in the opposite case. In his books, he urges that everything be done "upstream' so as to avoid mixed marriages: "It is better to curb passions at the start, rather than be faced by catastrophe after several years."25 His prognosis was very pessimistic: "Sometimes mixed couples survive like others, but very often it goes tragically wrong." A husband can always convert to Islam, but there again Ramadan is most skeptical: "What can appear as a solution `for today' is almost sure to produce problems `for tomorrow.' A conversion that does not commit both heart and mind is null and void. One can try to fool oneself, but one cannot fool the Creator, and tomorrow the couple's agonizing separation will teach the lovers they once were that an authentic act of faith must, of necessity, be sincere. The only act of faith worthy of a human being."26 Decidedly, freedom to love is not really a priority for this man of the faith, obsessed with proselytizing.

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