Tariq Ramadan Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: b. August 26, 1962
Birthday: August 26
I opposed the Fatwa against Salman Rushdie. I read the book and took a critical distance. I did not think The Satanic Verses is a blasphemous book. I did not consider the book as being a great read, but as an intellectual I read, I assess, and I respond. I make a difference between true freedom of expression to which we owe a response and provocation, which we ignore.
source: "'You want my reaction? You get my silence.'". Interview with Lars Mensel, Clemens Lukitsch, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. November 19, 2012. 
topic: Distance, Book, Thinking, Rushdie, Satanic Verses
