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5o T. Ramadan, "La femme musulmane face a son devoir d'engagement."
51 See US Department of State, "Saudi Arabia country report on human rights practices for 1998," published February 26, 1999.
52 David Hirst, "Educated for indolence: Thousands of Saudi women get university degrees, few get jobs," Guardian, August 3,1999-
53 T. Ramadan, "La femme musulmane face a son devoir d'engagement."
54 al-Banna, "Les cinquante demandes du program des Freres musulmans."
55 T. Ramadan, "La femme musulmane face a son devoir d'engagement."
56 T. Ramadan, Peut-on vivre avec l'Islam?, p. 126.
57 T. Ramadan, "La femme musulmane. Realites et espoir."
58 T. Ramadan, "La femme musulmane face a son devoir d'engagement."
59 T. Ramadan cassette, "Islam, modernite et modernisme [Islam, modernity and modernism]," TAW 07, Tawhid.
6o T. Ramadan, "La femme musulmane face a son devoir d'engagement."
33 Tariq Ramadan, Peut-on vivre avec l'Islam? [Can One Live with Islam?], an exchange between Tariq Ramadan and Jacques Neirynck, Lausanne, Fa- vre, 2004 [1999], p. 126.
34 T. Ramadan, "Relations hommesfemmes."
35 Ibid.
36 T. Ramadan, "La femme musulmane face a son devoir d'engagement."
37 Ibid.
38 Conseil europeen de la fatwa et de la recherche, Revueil defatwas [Compendium ofFatwas], series no. i, preface by Tariq Ramadan, Lyon, Tawhid, 2002, P• 137.
39 T. Ramadan, "Le renouveau islamique."
40 Ibid.
41 T. Ramadan, "La femme musulmane face a son devoir d'engagement."
42 Ibid.
43 T. Ramadan, "La femme musulmane. Realites et espoir."
61 Tariq Ramadan cassette, "La vie conjugale en Islam [Married life in Islam]," recorded in Mauritius, Tawhid.
62 Here is the statement made in 1987 by French National Front leader JeanMarie Le Pen atthe first congress ofthe Cercle national des femmes d'Europe: When women work, the tragic result is the break-up of the family ... and the handing over of the mother's role in the education of her children to the creche or the school, with disastrous consequences that contribute to delinquency and drugs," Bulletin du CNFE, no. 20, December 1987January 1988, cited by Francois Laroche, "Marechal, nous voila! Le Cercle national des femmes d'Europe," in L'extreme droite et les femmes.
63 Dom Gerard, Itineraires, March 1988.
64 T. Ramadan, "La vie conjugale en Islam."
65 Ibid.
66 Ibid.
67 T. Ramadan, "La femme musulmane face a son devoir d'engagement."
68 Ibid.
69 T. Ramadan, "La vie conjugale en Islam."
7o Ibid.
71 1 Corinthians 11. This passage is often quoted in the journals and bulletins of French traditionalists.
72 Tariq Ramadan cassette, "Ehomme musulman aujourd'hui. Spiritual- ite, equilibre affectif et sexuel, role familial et social [Today's Muslim man: Spirituality, emotional and sexual balance, family and social role]," lecture recorded in Roubaix (France), QA 37, Tawhid.
73 Alain Gresh and Tariq Ramadan,
L'Islam en questions [Questioning Islam], a debate organized and presented by Francoise Germain-Robin, Sindbad, 2002, p. 280.
74 T. Ramadan, "La femme musulmane. Realite et espoir."
75 Conseil europeen de la fatwa et de la recherche, Recueil defatwas [Compendium ofFatwas], series no. i, preface by Tariq Ramadan, Lyon, Tawhid, 2002, p. 156.
76 Gilles Kepel, Le Prophete et le Pharaon [The Prophet and Pharaoh], Paris, Seuil, 1993, p. 201.
77 M. Boudejenoun, Le marriage en Islam. Modalites et finalites, Paris, Maison d'Ennour, 2001, p. 8o.
78 T. Ramadan, "La vie conjugale en Islam."
79 Tariq Ramadan cassette, "La conception islamique de la sexualite. Innocence, responsability et maitrise [The Islamic conception of sexuality: Innocence, responsibility and mastery]," recorded in Mauritius, QA 38, Tawhid.
8o Ibid.
81 Transfac, December 1995.
82 T. Ramadan, "La conception islamique de la sexualite. Innocence, responsa- bilite et maitrise."
83 Yousouf Ibram, "Le conseil europeen de la fatwa. Role et objectifs [The European Council for Fatwa. Its role and objectives]," lecture, HC 19, Tawhid.
84 Conseil europeen de la fatwa, Recueil defatwas, p. 126.
85 T. Ramadan, Peut-on vivre avec Islam?, p. 138-
86 T. Ramadan, "La conception islamique de la sexualite."
87 Ibid.
88 T. Ramadan, Peut-on vivre avec Islam?, p. 152.
89 T. Ramadan," La conception islarnique de la sexualite."
9o Ibid.
91 T. Ramadan, Peut-on vivre avec l'Islam?, p. 152.
92 Qaradhawi, Le licite et l'illicite en Islam, p. 91.
93 T. Ramadan, "Islam, modernite et modernisme."
94 Cited by Qaradhawi, Le licite et l'illicite en Islam, p. 199. Use of the term "homosexuality" comes as a surprise, since the word only appeared in the nineteenth century.
95 T. Ramadan," La conception islarnique de la sexualite."
96 Ibid.
97 Tariq Ramadan cassette, "Les grands peches [The major sins]," recorded in Reunion, August 1999, QA 4, Tawhid.
98 T. Ramadan, "Ehomme musulman aujourd'hui."
99 "Wa in kanat `alara' - si tannurin," `Aini, IX, p. 484•
loo T. Ramadan, "La femme musulmane. Realites et espoir."
101 T. Ramadan, "Relations hommesfemmes."
102 Ibid.
103 Ibid.
104 Tariq Ramadan cassette, "Islam et societe. La conception de l'homme en Islam [Islam and society: The conception of man in Islam]," lecture recorded in the Ivory Coast, QA 27, Tawhid.
105 T. Ramadan, "La femme musulmane. Realites et espoir."
1o6 T. Ramadan, "Lhomme musulman
aujourd'hui."
107 Ibid.
i o 8 Ibid.
Top Ibid.
iio T. Ramadan, "Les grands peches."
Chapter five
i Tariq Ramadan, Les musulmans d'Occident et l'avenir de l'Islam [Western Muslims and the Future of Islam], Arles, Actes Sud-Sindbad, 2003, p. 17.
2 Tariq Ramadan, Les musulmans dans la laacite [Muslims in a Secular Society], Lyon, Tawhid, 1994, note 4, page 36.
3 Tariq Ramadan cassette, "Notre identite face an contexte: Assimilation, integration ou contribution? [Our identity and its context: Assimilation, integration or contribution?]," recorded in France, QA 44, Tawhid.
4 Ibid.
5 Ibid.
6 T. Ramadan, Les musulmans dans la laicite, pp. 30-31-
7 Tariq Ramadan cassette, "Vivre en Occident [Living in the West]," part 2.
8 T. Ramadan, Les musulmans d'Occident et l'avenir de l'Islam, p. 173-
9 T. Ramadan, "Notre identite face an contexte: Assimilation, integration ou contribution?"
1o Tariq Ramadan cassette, "Lidentite musulmane. Construire notre discours [The Muslim identity: Developing our discourse]," Abidjan, July 1999, QA 28, Tawhid.
ii Ibid.
12 T. Ramadan, "Notre identite face au contexte. Assimilation, integration on contribution?"
13 Cassette "Islam d'Europe: entre reli gion minoritaire et message universel [European Islam: Between minority religion and universal message]," debate organized in Lyon between Tariq Ramadan and Tareq Oubrou, HC 024, Tawhid.
14 Tariq Ramadan cassette, "Islam et laicite. Comprehension et dialogue [Islam and secularism: Understanding and dialogue]," part 2, recorded in Senegal in 1998, QA 18, Tawhid.
15 T. Ramadan, Les musulmans dons la laicite, p. 152, note 50-
16 Tariq Ramadan cassette, "Pour une culture islamique alternative [For an alternative Islamic culture]," QA 33, Tawhid.
17 T. Ramadan, "Vivre en Occident."
18 T. Ramadan, "Pour une culture islamique alternative."
19 Ibid.
20 Tariq Ramadan cassette, "Rapports Nord-Sud."
21 "Paroles et musique,"
Presence Musulmane, bulletin no. 6, April 1999.
22 Tariq Ramadan, "Une culture islamique europeenne," Presence Musulmane, bulletin no. 6, 1999.
23 T. Ramadan, "Pour une culture islamique alternative."
24 Ibid.
25 Ibid.
26 Abd al-Malik, QuAllah benisse la France, Paris, Albin Michel, 2004, P134-36.
27 Hani Ramadan, L'Islam et la derive de de l'Occident, Ennour, 2001, p. 71, note 52.
28 T. Ramadan, "Vivre en Occident."
29 T. Ramadan, "Pour une culture islamique alternative."
3o Tariq Ramadan cassette, "La femme musulmane face a son devoir d'engagement [The Muslim woman and her duty to participate]," recorded in Abidjan (Ivory Coast), QA 22, Tawhid.
31 T. Ramadan, "Pour une culture islamique alternative."
32 T. Ramadan, "Notre identite face au contexte. Assimilation, integration on contribution?"
33 T. Ramadan, "L'identite musulmane. Construire notre discours."
34 T. Ramadan, "Notre identite face an contexte. Assimilation, integration ou contribution?"
35 Tariq Ramadan cassette, "Islam et Occident. References et valeurs [Islam and the West: References and values]," part 2, lecture recorded in Abidjan, QA 15, Tawhid.
36 Le Monde des Debats, January 2, 2002.
37 This footnote has already been cited, but Tariq Ramadan complained that his opponents had not cited it in full. I have therefore given the quote in ex- tenso. Les musulmans dons la laicite, note 6o, page 175.
38 Colloque International des Musulmans de l'Espace Francophone, Les musulmans francophone. Comprehension, la terminologie, le discours, Tawhid, 2001, p. 101.
39 T. Ramadan, "La femme musulmane face a son devoir d'engagement."
40 Cited by Josette Alia and Carole Barjo, in Le Nouvel Observateur, November 20, 2003-
41 Cited in Le Nouvel Observateur, September 4, 2003-
42 Le Progres, October 20, 2001.
43 Le Monde, January 18, 2003-
44 Le Monde des Debats, January 2, 2002.
45 T. Ramadan, "Islam et laicite. Comprehension et dialogue."
46 Ibid.
47 "Islam d'Europe: entre religion minoritaire et message universel."
48 Ibid.
49 Tariq Ramadan cassette, "Etre musulman europeen [To be a European Muslim]," QA 4, Tawhid.
5o T. Ramadan, Les musulmans d'Occident et l'avenir de l'Islam, pp. 21-22.
51 Tariq Ramadan cassette, "Vivre en Occident. Les cinq fondements de notre presence [Living in the West: The Five Grounds for our Presence]," part i, QA 39, Tawhid.
52 Cited in Christophe Ayad and Olivier Bertrand, "Predicateur tous terrain [An All-purpose Preacher]," Liberation, February 5, 2004-
53 Tariq Ramadan, Les musulmans dans la laicite, 2nd revised ed., Lyon, Tawhid, P• 35.
54 "Islam d'Europe: entre religion minoritaire et message universel."
55 Hassan al-Banna, Epitres aux jeunes [Letter to the Young].
56 Tariq Ramadan cassette, "Islam et laicite. Comprehension et dialogue [Islam and secularism: Understanding and dialogue]," part 2, recorded in Senegal in 1998, QA 18, Tawhid.
57 Tariq Ramadan cassette, "Le renouveau islamique [The Islamic revival]," QA 23, Tawhid.
58 Ibid.
59 T. Ramadan, "Islam d'Europe: entre religion minoritaire et message universel [European Islam: Between minority religion and universal message]," debate organized in Lyon between Tariq Ramadan and Tarek Oubrou, HC 024, Tawhid.
6o T. Ramadan, "Islam et laicite. Comprehension et dialogue."
61 T. Ramadan, Les musulmans d'Occident et l'avenir de l'Islam, p. 285.
62 Ibid. pp. 287-88.
63 T. Ramadan, "Vivre en Occident."
64 Interview with Aziz Mouride, February 26, 2004-
65 Dounia Bouzar, L'Islam des banlieues. Les predicateurs musulmans: nouveaux travailleurs sociaux?, Paris, Syros, 2001.
66 L'une voilee, l'autre pas [One Wears the Veil, the Other Doesn't], Paris, Albin Michel, 2003, served as a media springboard for Saida Kada, a young Islamist trained by the Muslim Sisters of Lyon.
67 This French association was founded in 2001 to defend the rights of women, particularly those of North African descent, living in working-class neighborhoods, who were victims both of racism and also of virulent sexism based on tradition or religion.
68 Fadela Amara, Ni putes ni soumises, interviews with Sylvia Zappi, Paris, La Decouverte, 2003, PP. 73-75.
69 L'Humanite, February 20,2003-
70 Interview with Nadia Amiri, January 31,2004-
71 This crime led, in February 2003, to the Marche des femmes contre les ghettos et pour l'egalite [Womens March Against Ghettoes and For Equality], which, in turn, gave birth to the movement Ni Putes Ni Soumises.
72 FaridAbdelkrim, Na'alBoulaFrance?!, preface by Ahmed al-Micherfi, La Courneuve, GEDIS, 2002.
73 Cited by Le Monde, February 12, 2003-
74 Internet message (February 2004, since removed) on www.oumma.com
75 Le Monde, November 17,2003-
76 Interview in Le Progres, October 16, 2001.
77 Interview with Christian Delorme, March 5, 2004.
Chapter six
1 The High- Level Advisory Group on the Dialogue between Peoples and Cultures, presided over by Assia Alaoui Bensalah and Jean Daniel, was assigned to submit a report concerning the Euro-Mediterranean Area. The other members were Ms. Fatima Mer- nissi, Ms. Simone Susskind-Wein- berger, Ms. Tullia Zevi and Messrs Malek Chebel, Juan Diez Nicolas, Umberto Eco, Shmuel N. Eisenstadt, George Joffe, Ahmed Kamal Aboul- magd, Bichara Khader, Adnan Wafic Kassar, Pedrag Matvejevic, Rostane Mehdi, Tariq Ramadan, Faruk Sen, and Faouzi Skali.
8 Dominique Avron, "Une reponse a `l'Islam reformiste' de Tariq Ramadan
[A reply to Tariq Ramadans `reformist Islam,"' Nunc, no. 4, October 2003-
9 T. Ramadan, "Islam et Occident. Reference et valeurs."
1o Ibid.
ii Ibid.
12 T. Ramadan, Islam, le face-a-face des civilizations, p. 25.
13 Jacques Jomier,"LIslam etsapresence en Occident suivant les perspectives d'un Frere musulman [Islanis presence in the West from a Muslim Brother's perspective]," Esprit et Vie, 17 February 2000, p. 74-
14 T. Ramadan, "Islam et Occident. References et valeurs."
15 Tariq Ramadan cassette, "Islam, modernite et modernisme [Islam, modernity and modernism]," TAW 07, Tawhid.
16 T. Ramadan, "Islam et Occident. References et valeurs."
2 Tariq Ramadan cassette, "Islam et Occident. References et valeurs [Islam and the West: References and values]," part 2, lecture recorded in Abidjan, QA 15, Tawhid.
3 Ibid.
4 Tariq Ramadan, Islam, le face-a face des civilisations. Quel pro jet pour queue modernite? [Islam: The Confrontation of Civilizations. What Sort of Plan for What sort of Modernity?], Lyon, Tawhid, 2001.
5 Tariq Ramadan cassette, "Le renouveau islamique [The Islamic revival]," QA 23, Tawhid.
6 T. Ramadan, "Islam et Occident. References et valeurs."
17 T. Ramadan, "Islam, modernite et modernisme."
18 Ibid.
19 T. Ramadan, Islam, le face-a-face des civilisations. Quel projet pour queue modernite, pp. 25-26.
20 T. Ramadan, "Islam et Occident. References et valeurs."
21 Ibid.
22 Ibid.
23 T. Ramadan, "Le renouveau islamique."
24 T. Ramadan, "Islam et Occident. References et valeurs."
25 Tariq Ramadan cassette, "Rapports Nord-Sud."
26 T. Ramadan, "Islam et Occident. References et valeurs."
27 Ibid.
7 Ibid.
28 Ibid.
29 Tariq Ramadan, Peut-on vivre avec l'Islam? [Can One Live with Islam?], an exchange between Tariq Ramadan and Jacques Neirynck, Lausanne, Fa- vre, 2004, p. 124-
3o Tariq Ramadan cassette, "L°identite musulmane. Construire notre discours [The Muslim identity: Developing our discourse]," Abidjan, July 1999, QA
28, Tawhid.
31 T. Ramadan, "Rapports Nord-Sud."
32 Cited in Francois Dufay, "L'Islam en France. La fausse prophetie des Islam- ologues," Le Point, no. 1516, 5 October 2001.
33 T. Ramadan, "Islam et Occident. References et valeurs."
34 Tariq Ramadan cassette, "Islam et laicite. Comprehension et dialogue [Islam and secularism: Understanding and dialogue]," part 2, recorded in Senegal in 1998, QA 18, Tawhid.
35 T. Ramadan, "Islam et Occident. References et valeurs."
36 T. Ramadan, "Rapports Nord-Sud."
37 In his cassette "Rapports Nord-Sud" he mentions in passing "the totalitarian deviations of a regime that does not allow for much freedom' before launching into a detailed defense of the government.
38 Interview with Jean-Yves Chaperon, March 15, 2004-
39 Interview with Luiza Toscane in Islam. Un autre nationalisme, Paris, L'Harmattan,1995, p. 205.
40 T. Ramadan, "Rapports Nord-Sud."
41 T. Ramadan, Peut-on vivre avec l'Islam?, p. 205.
42 T. Ramadan, Islam, le face-a-face des civilisations.
43 T. Ramadan, "Islam et Occident. References et valeurs."
44 Tariq Ramadan, "Les musulmans et la mondialisation [Muslims and globalization]," Pouvoirs, no. 104, 2003, PP- 101-02.
45 T. Ramadan, "Islam et Occident. References et valeurs."
46 Ibid.
47 T. Ramadan, "Le renouveau islamique."
48 T. Ramadan, "Rapports Nord-Sud."
49 T. Ramadan, "Islam et Occident. References et valeurs."
5o Tariq Ramadan cassette, "La question de la conversion. Nos responsabilites communes [The Question of conversions: Our common responsibility]," QA 12, Tawhid.
51 T. Ramadan, "Lidentite musulmane. Construire notre discours."
52 T. Ramadan, "La question de la conversion. Nos responsabilites communes."
53 Tariq Ramadan, Dar Ash-Shahada. L'Occident espace de temoignage [Dar Ash-Shahada. The West, a Land for Bearing Witness], Lyon, Tawhid, 2002, p. 65.
54 T Ramadan, "L'identite musulman. Construire notre discours."
55 Tariq Ramadan, "Message aux musulmans de France," cassette edited by the Ligue Nationale des Musulmans de France (2003).
56 T Ramadan, "Le renouveau islamique."
57 T Ramadan, "Message aux musulmans de France."