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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. "
Hamza Yusuf
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" Where you don't have people who have strong intellectual capacity, you get demagoguery. "
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" All of the people are the dependents of Allah. "
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" Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it. "
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" The human family is a great one, and the Muslim branch is certainly worth knowing. "
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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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" Palestine is the issue, and until this issue is resolved, there can be no peace. "
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" The greatest preventative to terrorism is Muslim religious literacy. "
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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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" 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. "
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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 tree grows. If you're staying the same, something is wrong. You're not alive. "
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" I think all this Facebook stuff should just stop! "
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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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" I've said some things about other religions that I regret now. I think they were incorrect. "
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" America is about choices, including those to live certain lifestyles. "
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" Our duty is to be patient. "
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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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" We don't have any power other than our intellect and our hearts. "
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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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" People can't think when their minds are clouded with fear. "
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" If you don't have religious fallibilism, you have immense problems. "
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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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" 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 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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" 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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" I know that people can live celibate lives. I did it myself for many years. "
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