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" 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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" Muslims are not ashamed of their Prophet's teaching about war. On the contrary, for us it is a great source of pride. "

Hamza Yusuf

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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. "

" You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people. "

" Much to the chagrin of the staunchly secular among us, religion shows no sign of going away. Predictions of the demise of religion, faith, tradition - and even God - have consistently been proven wrong. "

" ISIS is very similar to the Kharijites, who were a toxic off-shoot of Islam. It's not Islam; it's a perversion of Islam, and to label these militant externalities as Islam is to legitimize their actions. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I know that people can live celibate lives. I did it myself for many years. "

" 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. "

" To the solace of his name, simply saying 'Muhammad' has an incredibly soothing effect on me. "

Hamza Yusuf

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" I think that the idea of a war on an abstract noun is unacceptable. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The entrenched beliefs many westerners profess about Islam often reveal more about the West than they do about Islam or Muslims. "

" All of the people are the dependents of Allah. "

Hamza Yusuf

People

Allah

" Whatever one thinks of the wisdom of building a mosque near Ground Zero, this controversy now affords us an immense opportunity to examine who we are as a people. It provides us with the opportunity to get back to our foundational ideals, which have always stood as a beacon for the rest of the world. "

" Katrina did much more damage than anything the terrorists could ever put together. "

" In being aware of others' hunger, we contribute to a more empathic world. "

" I would rather live as a Muslim in the West than in most of the Muslim countries, because I think the way Muslims are allowed to live in the West is closer to the Muslim way. "

" 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. "

" Certainly, hunger can bring out the worst in us. But it can also bring out the best. "

Hamza Yusuf

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" September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don't want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger. "

" If you don't have religious fallibilism, you have immense problems. "

" 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. "

" The greatest preventative to terrorism is Muslim religious literacy. "

" Ideas must counter ideas. You can drop all the bombs you want, but if you don't pull up weeds by their roots, they just grow back. "

" Every day, my love for Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, increases. "

" Where you don't have people who have strong intellectual capacity, you get demagoguery. "

" The human family is a great one, and the Muslim branch is certainly worth knowing. "

" Palestine is the issue, and until this issue is resolved, there can be no peace. "