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" I really believe that carpet-bombing, bombing civilian populations, is a form of terror - it's state terror as opposed to vigilante terrorism. "
Hamza Yusuf
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" Our duty is to be patient. "
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" The Jews would have us believe that God had this bias to this little small tribe in the middle of the Sinai Desert, and all the rest of humanity is just rubbish. I mean, that is the basic doctrine of the Jewish religion, and that's why it is a most racist religion. "
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" The greatest preventative to terrorism is Muslim religious literacy. "
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" The human family is a great one, and the Muslim branch is certainly worth knowing. "
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" For believers, both privilege and privation are a trial, and both demand responses: one demands service, and the other demands patience. The greatest privilege is to live well in flourishing lands; the greatest privation is to live in the midst of war, especially civil war. "
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" Many people in the West do not realise how oppressive some Muslim states are - both for men and for women. This is a cultural issue, not an Islamic one. "
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" I think the Hajj tends to reflect the state of the Ummah. That's one of the things about the Hajj is that you get to see the Ummah. It's a microcosm of the Ummah's condition. "
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" I think all this Facebook stuff should just stop! "
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" Muslims are not ashamed of their Prophet's teaching about war. On the contrary, for us it is a great source of pride. "
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" Americans are generally decent and fair people with a commitment to sense, but some of us, swept up by our passions, wade too far into a sea of sensibility. "
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" If you don't have religious fallibilism, you have immense problems. "
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" I don't align myself with the West of the Muslim world. I align myself with what I perceive to be just and in accordance with my principles - the principles that I live my life by which are universal principles and that are embodied in the religion of Islam. "
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" To be aware of others' accomplishments and the indebtedness we have to so many people is to appreciate and begin to respect all members of the human family. "
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" Corruption is rife in the Muslim world, and when it is coupled with the marginalization of religion, it manifests itself as frustration and becomes a fertile recruiting ground for extremism. "
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" The acquisition of knowledge - knowledge of both the world and of their own religion - will inoculate young people against extremist ideologies. "
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" Hunger can bring out the worst in us. "
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" Our world is increasingly interdependent and pluralistic, and in order to ensure a civil future, we must get to know one another. "
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" The thing I love most about going to a book store is the self-help section is the biggest section because Americans know we're screwed up. We know it. But we want to get better. "
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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. "
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" Islam was hijacked on that September 11, 2001, on that plane, as an innocent victim. "
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" We must assert to the Abrahamic people that we are the last extension of the Abrahamic religion... There is no such thing as an Islamic tribe. "
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" I think that the idea of a war on an abstract noun is unacceptable. "
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" Radicalization is very easy when you mock what people hold dear. "
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" We Muslims in the West, like Jews before us, grapple with the same issues that Jews of the past did: integration or isolation, tradition or reform, intermarriage or intra-marriage. "
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