TARIQ RAMADAN ABOUT BROTHERHOOD ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Toward Tariq Ramadan----Your grandfather Hassan al-Banna founded the Muslim Brotherhood, historically the most important and inspirational of radical Islamic groups. He said that Islam is “all-inclusive … a home and a nationality, a religion and a state … a book and a sword.” ----He replied ---The problem is that that was a slogan used in a specific situation under English colonization. He was u...sing slogans against the Western presence in Egypt, and trying to understand from the Islamic sources the kind of project he wished to implement. It was in Egypt, but it was wider than that. This is one thing I’m trying to communicate to Muslims, especially to the Muslim Brotherhood: they repeat Hassan al-Banna slogans, but they do not always understand what he meant. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- He (imam hasanul banah)was very young when he started, and he changed his opinion on many issues, for example pluralism. He believed that the English were trying to create political parties to divide the Egyptian resistance. He thought it was a game the colonizers were playing against them, and he thought, “we have to be united.” But at the end of his life [al-Banna was assassinated in 1949, during Egypts struggle for independence], he said, we can use the plural parties. We can ask the Muslim Brotherhood to join any party you want, and play the political role you want in this society. He changed. ( Tariq Ramadan) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If we read what he (imam hasanul banah) said at this time about sharia [Muslim law], it was absolutely not all about the penal code. He was promoting social justice. This is why, afterwards, we had two groups within the Muslim Brotherhood, people who believed “we have to educate people, we have to implement social justice,” and others following the other aspect of some of his statements, which were dealing with government, dealing with power, saying that we need a khalifa [a restoration of Ottoman-style Muslim rule]. I think he was very engaged in the society with tools and the means to change it. He wanted an Islamic society, and he understood that the state is but a means. But after Gamel Abdul Nasser took over, he persecuted the Muslim Brotherhood. In jail, some of the followers understood the message in a different way. They were upset with those in power. They said, what we want is to kill them, to take over the government: we reject Gamel Abdul Nasser’s authority. There was a shift within the Muslim Brotherhood ( Tariq Ramadan)
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