We are forever lured by the sirens of the dogmatic mind, with its haughty complacency, which determines that one´s relationship to others is only meaningful when one tries to convince them of one´s single truth. In such a spiritual and intellectual climate, holding a dialogue consists of speaking, but never of listening – the other is the privileged scope of my proselytism. My truth thus becomes a blind and blinding passion – it imprisons me, even as it was supposed to liberate me; it has become a source of alienation.

We are forever lured by the sirens of the dogmatic mind, with its haughty complacency, which determines that one´s relationship to others is only meaningful when one tries to convince them of one´s single truth. In such a spiritual and intellectual climate, holding a dialogue consists of speaking, but never of listening – the other is the privileged scope of my proselytism. My truth thus becomes a blind and blinding passion – it imprisons me, even as it was supposed to liberate me; it has become a source of alienation.

– Tariq Ramadan –

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