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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. "
Hamza Yusuf
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" The Islamic tradition does show some areas of apparent incompatibility with the goals of women in the West, and Muslims have a long way to go in their attitudes towards women. But blaming the religion is again to express an ignorance both of the religion and of the historical struggle for equality of women in Muslim societies. "
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" Where you don't have people who have strong intellectual capacity, you get demagoguery. "
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" Certainly, hunger can bring out the worst in us. But it can also bring out the best. "
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" A democracy is predicated on an educated citizenry. You cannot have a democracy with people that are more interested in what Nicole Kidman is doing or whoever the latest fashion model is. "
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" I think all this Facebook stuff should just stop! "
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" Katrina did much more damage than anything the terrorists could ever put together. "
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" People can't think when their minds are clouded with fear. "
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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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" Islam was hijacked on that September 11, 2001, on that plane, as an innocent victim. "
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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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" The true object of war fought for God should always be peace. "
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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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" To the solace of his name, simply saying 'Muhammad' has an incredibly soothing effect on me. "
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Me
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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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World
Religion
" I know that people can live celibate lives. I did it myself for many years. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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. "
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" My alignment is with what I perceive as just and fair. If it's with the Muslims, then I'm with the Muslims, if it's with the West then I'm with the West. It's about justice and fairness. "
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Fairness
Justice
" 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. "
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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. "
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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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" 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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