Hamza Yusuf Quotes

The entrenched beliefs many westerners profess about Islam often reveal more about the West than they do about Islam or Muslims.

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• I'm a good Muslim and I'm only interested in Islam.

  

  Idi Amin
  • Good
  • Interested
  • Islam

• We would be able to deal with Islam if we were allowed to deal with it in the way we think we should.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Think
  • Way
  • Islam

• Fanaticism and terrorism have no place in Islam.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Place
  • Terrorism
  • Islam

• The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.

  

  Barack Obama
  • War
  • Will
  • Islam

• The 'Islam vs. the West' dialogue ceased to be about real people a long time ago.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Religious beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honoured.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • People
  • Religious
  • Beliefs

• The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.

  

  Malcolm X
  • People
  • True
  • Wrong

• It is not right to associate the fight against international terrorist networks with an imaginary crusade against Islam.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Fight
  • Islam
  • Crusade

• I realised that the idea of enforcing sharia is not consistent with Islam as it's been practised from the beginning. In other words, Islam has always been secular, and I had been totally ignorant of the fact.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Words
  • Beginning
  • Islam

• Islam's laws are fixed and that is why Islam is stable.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Why
  • Laws
  • Islam

• The fact to the matter is, we never developed a comprehensive strategy to deal with radical Islam. And the 9/11 commission said one of the things we must do is develop a global alliance to combat it.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Said
  • Strategy
  • Islam

• I can talk a lot and not reveal anything; I would make a great politician.

  

  Imelda May
  • Great
  • Talk
  • Reveal

• That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Time
  • Dark
  • Personality

• In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor to an institution, nor a movement, nor a set of beliefs, nor a code of action - you are attached primarily to a Person, and secondarily to these other things.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Action
  • Movement
  • Beliefs

• Radical Islam, it has grown into a global jihad.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Islam
  • Radical
  • Global

• The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management's unexamined beliefs.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Always
  • Management
  • Beliefs

• As a Westerner, the child of civil rights and anti-war activists, I embraced Islam not in abandonment of my core values, drawn almost entirely from the progressive tradition, but as an affirmation of them.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • War
  • Child
  • Values

• I regret that I have not written more, shouted louder, and acted out my beliefs.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Regret
  • More
  • Beliefs

• You [can] become part of someone else's narrative. Every once in a while I would get people asking me questions like, "If your husband is a Muslim, then why haven't you converted to Islam?" Interestingly enough, almost every person who asked me that was a Sunni, and it was their not-so-subtle way of implying that my Shiite husband was a bad Muslim for letting his infidel wife run around unconverted.

  

  Annia Ciezadlo
  • People
  • Running
  • Wife

• I think the reasons for not selecting persons like the Reverend Borders and John Wesley Dobbs were, in my book rather obvious reasons: because they were people who were basically oriented in the direction of the established method of not confronting the power structure, but trying to elicit concessions by various and sundry means of, well, let's call it accommodating leadership.

  

  Ella Baker
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• In football, you are going to have highs and lows, and you have to recognize when you have new opportunities and walk in those.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • You
  • Football
  • Opportunities

• I loved Bonny, and I always prayed that God would sneak in there and get a little light in her life.

  

  Bonny Lee Bakley
  • God
  • Light
  • Littles

• The entrenched beliefs many westerners profess about Islam often reveal more about the West than they do about Islam or Muslims.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Islam
  • Beliefs
  • Reveal