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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Cognitive therapy seeks to alleviate psychological stresses by correcting faulty conceptions and self-signals. By correcting erroneous beliefs we can lower excessive reactions.
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Indonesia is the world's third-largest democracy. And we also have the world's largest Muslim population. This demonstrates that democracy and Islam are not incompatible. Terrorism is not associated with any religion.
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You clearly saw there was one focus or concentration, ... Hulk (Hogan), even though he was not always straight up with the things he was doing in the ring, he would say take your vitamins, obey your parents. That played very well for the time, but now we have edgier kind of programming, and we continue to push the envelope.
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The care of souls cannot belong to the civil magistrate.
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One thing I've been happy as peach pie about - because I'm all about the children and the happiness of a woman because that makes the happiness of the home - is that nannies, day cares and babysitters are all collapsing, which is forcing moms and dads to raise their children at home.
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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.
