"The desired Islamic state might be likened to an orchard planted with olive and palm trees that will take a relatively long time to produce fruit."

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In fact all the Islamists, that is the reformists not the Salafis, now they all say that they want a civil state, a civil state with Islamic reference points. They are not talking about an Islamic state, or sharia in the way this was once understood in the fight against the colonisers, or just afterwards in the 70's, 80's and 90's.

— Tariq Ramadan