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" I think all this Facebook stuff should just stop! "
Hamza Yusuf
Just
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Think
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" I've said some things about other religions that I regret now. I think they were incorrect. "
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" If you don't have religious fallibilism, you have immense problems. "
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" When a man wrote a political screed against the IRS and flew into its building, he was deemed mentally ill, even though it was clearly a political act. There's a double standard, which is: If his name is Muhammad, it's automatically terrorism. "
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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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" 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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" Palestine is the issue, and until this issue is resolved, there can be no peace. "
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" The true object of war fought for God should always be peace. "
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True
" 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. "
Hamza Yusuf
Values
Islam
Rights
" Live your lives. Go out; take walks amongst trees. "
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Live
Your
Trees
" There are many ways to be hungry. One can hunger for love, or fame or social justice, but hunger for food seems to curb all other cravings. "
Hamza Yusuf
Hunger
Food
Fame
" My great, great grandfather, Michael O'Hanson, fled the impending potato famine of Ireland and arrived in America in the early 1840s with his bride, Bridget. They headed for Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love and a mecca for Irish-Catholic immigrants then. "
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Bride
America
Great
" 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. "
Hamza Yusuf
Corruption
World
Religion
" 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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West
Than
Reveal
" Where you don't have people who have strong intellectual capacity, you get demagoguery. "
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Intellectual
Strong
Where
" I think that the idea of a war on an abstract noun is unacceptable. "
Hamza Yusuf
I Think
Idea
War
" We want to counter the idea that Muslims and non-Muslims can't live together. This is not who we are or who we want to be. "
Hamza Yusuf
Want
Idea
Who
" We don't have any power other than our intellect and our hearts. "
Hamza Yusuf
Intellect
Hearts
Other
" 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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World
Religion
People
" I know that people can live celibate lives. I did it myself for many years. "
Hamza Yusuf
Myself
People
Many
" 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. "
Hamza Yusuf
Tribe
Religion
Last
" Certainly, hunger can bring out the worst in us. But it can also bring out the best. "
Hamza Yusuf
Bring
Hunger
Us
" 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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Ashamed
Pride
Source
" Islam was hijacked on that September 11, 2001, on that plane, as an innocent victim. "
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Islam
Innocent
September
" A tree grows. If you're staying the same, something is wrong. You're not alive. "
Hamza Yusuf
Something
Alive
Tree
" God is much greater than anything we can imagine. "
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Anything
Than
Much
" Every day, my love for Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, increases. "
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Blessings
Peace
Every Day
" 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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People
Appreciate
Respect
" 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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Get
Reflect
See
" All peoples have contributed to the overall progress and enhancement of human life. "
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Human
Human Life
Progress
" Radicalization is very easy when you mock what people hold dear. "
Hamza Yusuf
You
Dear
Easy