American - Clergyman | January 1, 1958 -
All peoples have contributed to the overall progress and enhancement of human life.
Hamza Yusuf
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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.
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The human family is a great one, and the Muslim branch is certainly worth knowing.
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You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
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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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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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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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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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