Hamza Yusuf Quotes

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Hamza Yusuf

Profession : Clergyman

Birth : January 1, 1958

Radicalization is very easy when you mock what people hold dear.

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

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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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God is much greater than anything we can imagine.

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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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The true object of war fought for God should always be peace.

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

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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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Our duty is to be patient.

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We don't have any power other than our intellect and our hearts.

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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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A lot of our leadership has become acutely aware of speaking more fairly, of speaking more balanced, of recognizing that hate speech in any form, even if it comes out of emotional anger, is dangerous.

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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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I think all this Facebook stuff should just stop!

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Live your lives. Go out; take walks amongst trees.

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Hunger can bring out the worst in us.

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

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