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Every religious institution will strive to deform the image of religion.

— Ashraf Mansour

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Religion, in itself, does not require an institution, for it is a very personal relation between man and God.

If we want to improve the current conditions of Muslims, we must first liberate them from the men of religion.

Rising extremism can only be fought by reviving Islamic philosophy and modernist thinking.

This is not true of Islam only but of Judaism and Christianity.

When I returned to Cairo, I would ideally have liked to have taken the University of Ulm with me.

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