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.
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We would be able to deal with Islam if we were allowed to deal with it in the way we think we should.
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Fanaticism and terrorism have no place in Islam.
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The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.
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The 'Islam vs. the West' dialogue ceased to be about real people a long time ago.
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Religious beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honoured.
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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.
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It is not right to associate the fight against international terrorist networks with an imaginary crusade against Islam.
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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.
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Islam's laws are fixed and that is why Islam is stable.
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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.
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I can talk a lot and not reveal anything; I would make a great politician.
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That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me.
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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.
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Radical Islam, it has grown into a global jihad.
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The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management's unexamined beliefs.
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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.
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I regret that I have not written more, shouted louder, and acted out my beliefs.
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Run away from greatness and greatness will follow you.
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My mom teaches sixth grade and also taught first grade at one point. She's into dressing up and costumes and designing her own curriculum that way. She stayed home for about eight years with me and my sister when we were young before going back to teaching, so we had a lot of time with her. She taught us to read really early.
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When I went to Brooklyn in 1948 Jackie Robinson was at the height of his brilliant career.
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There is an underlying timelessness in the basic conversation that is mathematics.
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It doesn't make sense to change who you are just to hang out with people you think are cool. You know, you just have to be yourself.
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The entrenched beliefs many westerners profess about Islam often reveal more about the West than they do about Islam or Muslims.
