Hamza Yusuf Quotes

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Hamza Yusuf

Profession : Clergyman

Birth : January 1, 1958

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

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

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The fear tactic is a tactic that's used by people who want to maintain control, and it's very effective.

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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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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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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.

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

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A tree grows. If you're staying the same, something is wrong. You're not alive.

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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 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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Stop taking pictures and start experiencing life.

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

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

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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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Islam was hijacked on that September 11, 2001, on that plane, as an innocent victim.

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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.

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

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