The Creative Contribution of Islam Within Canadian Self-Understanding -Tariq Ramadan

Found the audio of his lecture at Queens University-Kingston ( click here for mp3 format) through TV Ontario Program's "Big Ideas" website. His topic was "The Creative Contribution of Islam Within Canadian Self-Understanding"

"Tariq Ramadan is our first speaker. He is a Swiss-born grandson of one of the founders of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt whose PhD dissertation was about Nietzsche, the intellectual grandfather of post-modernity. Ramadan defines himself as Western Muslim and he speaks to other Western Muslims about what it means to be both a Westerner and a Muslim. As you can appreciate, he is a very busy man nowadays.

In this talk, which he gave late last Fall at Queen's University, Ramadan speaks to Canadians as much as to Canadian Muslims about complex identities and multiculturalism. Most importantly, he suggests that for a society to be truly multicultural it needs to be more that just tolerant of immigrants, it must show itself to be receptive to being re-shaped by the newcomers."

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