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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Some think of Islam as an expedient jobs program that moves the female half of the population out of the way.
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With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.
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For those who either perceive but dully, or retain the ideas that come into their minds but ill, who cannot readily excite or compound them, will have little matter to think on.
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My taking pictures means I'm taking a series of pictures which become an essay and then get extended into a book. That's what's exciting, to take an idea and work it through to completion.
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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.
