Tariq Ramadan – Chronicles of Ramadan #12 The oppressed
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The speaker discusses the issue of exclusion and marginalization within society and how it can lead to oppression and discrimination. They emphasize the importance of showing solidarity and bringing about justice within the society. The speaker also emphasizes the need to redo one's own actions and not accept any kind of discrimination.
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Peace be with you.
We talked about,
the reality of some of our brothers and
sisters in humanity who are facing within the
society the reality of exclusion,
marginalization.
And it's as if we are dealing with
this, and,
the people are powerless. They have no right,
and we are trying to deal and try
to repair whatever what as much as we
can. And we have to do this, and
this is our responsibility,
as I said yesterday.
Now and we do we should not confuse
between the first status here, when the people
are dealing with the society and are excluded,
and what the society is doing with some
of our
fellow citizens and fellow human beings, they are
not only excluded, they are oppressed.
And this is justified
by law very often. It's not about, oh,
they are poor or they are excluded. It's
a system
that is carrying on and bringing about the
reality of this exclusion
through oppression and discrimination.
It could be for
people dealing with the law and finding that
the law is justifying
their own discrimination.
And when it comes, for example,
to women, this is what we find when
it comes to the salary being paid less
than men with the same competence.
And this is not to be accepted.
This is not something which is right if
we come with the deep understanding of this
commune common humanity and common dignity
and common status
before god and within the society.
Having said this and understanding,
our
understanding of how do we repair
should not be only
this
feeling that it should be done out of
our heart and only with this,
sense of solidarity.
It has to do with our consciousness,
our understanding
of how
it works within the society.
So humanity
requests
from us not only to show solidarity
out of our heart and kindness,
but out of our intelligence
and our will to bring about justice in
this world. This is our responsibility
as well. And when we are a member
of a society and we see how it
works and we see discriminations
and we
see injustices.
It's out.
It's for in, for our
responsibilities
for us
within our responsibility
to be involved in the process and to
do as much as we can at our
level with our fellow citizens
to change this society,
to ask for
a legal legal change,
within our society and more justice and less
discrimination
and to refuse
as much as we can
any status of oppression within the society.
This is important.
And
we can find ourself powerless, not able to
change,
yet our consciousness is the first step in
order for us to repair
what the society is doing.
The society
sometimes in our, the the governments are telling
us it's the way we cannot do more
than this at our level. This is why
we have to be involved,
to make it clear that we will never
accept
any kind of discrimination
for ourselves, for our brothers and sisters in
humanity, Muslims, or people of outer faith.
No
injustice to be accepted.
That's the first step to repair the world.
Don't forget to tell the people you love
that you love them. Life is fragile.