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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The best thing about New York is everything is available. Whatever you want, New York has got it!
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My theory is, independent movies only work if you're willing to push the material and do something different.
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Maybe she'd seen too many Japanese horror movies, and maybe it was just a tingle of warning from generations of superstitious ancestors, but suddenly she knew that what Alyssa wanted was not to be saved, but for Shane to join her. In death.
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There's nothing deader than a dead love.
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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.
